Article on Jobs and Degrees in Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education (www.chronicle.com) does an excellent job of reporting.  There is a recent article that describes employers views of the product colleges are, in general, producing.  That “product” is, of course, college graduates.  (I know that people aren’t products, but that just makes it sadder.) Here is a link to the article: […]

Student Debt

Yesterday’s Financial Times had an article today on student debt: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/74773c6e-5a49-11e2-a02e-00144feab49a.html#axzz2IuFScTqr The article notes that, in the past decade, student debt has risen over 40% – to more than a trillion dollars.  I’m worried that there is a bubble – at the very least, a large misallocation of resources.  We have an unfortunate combination of content deflation and tuition inflation. […]