Colleges Flex Lobbying Muscle – WSJ (Very Important)

College and universities have lobbied aggressively to beat back dozens of government proposals to measure their successes and failures, including a federal ratings system. Source: Colleges Flex Lobbying Muscle – WSJ See Bill Gross on the power of universities – see this to see how much revenue some of them receive yearly. I commented. Speaking […]

My Grades for Vanderbilt’s Highly Cited Report on “Red Tape”

Earlier I posted on the “…Senate-sponsored task force…calling for Congress and the U.S. Department of Education to simplify and scale back federal regulation…” At that time I thought it was going to be a sham. It turns out it was another demonstration of how immune to getting caught universities know they are – at least getting […]