Higher education institutions are engaging in a very American tradition regarding reopening in the fall, with students and parents as the easy marks, Ryan Craig argues.
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July 10, 2020
April 10, 2020
Colleges and universities can't tell economic victims of COVID-19 that they should borrow tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of sitting in classrooms for years with no guaranteed path to a good job, Ryan Craig argues.
February 28, 2020
The tendency of America's most famous universities to prioritize elegant campus life over learning has created the cutthroat culture at the core of the admissions scandal, Ryan Craig writes.
December 20, 2019
Higher education institutions and their leaders -- who claim to help graduates develop critical thinking -- are doing too little to combat the growing lack of reason roiling our society, Ryan Craig writes.
December 11, 2019
In the Third Age of online learning, companies are paying for their workers' online degrees. Does that bode well -- or ill -- for nonselective universities and their value proposition, Ryan Craig asks.
November 25, 2019
Varsity Blues has exposed just how bad it is, writes Ryan Craig.
October 4, 2019
Why hasn’t tuition in online education tumbled, and what will it take to drive the price down? Ryan Craig asks.
July 24, 2019
Randall Collins’s recently reissued 1979 book arguing that education and training are about credentialing rather than skills rings false in the digital age, Ryan Craig argues.
April 26, 2019
The debate about cleaning toilets at Harvard obscures a larger issue, Ryan Craig argues: Why don't we use federal dollars to incentivize work that actually matters?
March 18, 2019
Ramping up scrutiny of their admissions practices could threaten selective colleges' fund-raising efforts -- but the risks of not doing so are much greater, writes Ryan Craig.
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March 13, 2017
Higher education institutions should stop filling their boards with donors and instead recruit unaffiliated people with expertise in the areas they need help in, Ryan Craig and David Friedman argue.