Regulatory Overreach
The House of Representatives is going to pass a bill (H.R. 2117) that would forbid two regulatory initiatives of the Obama administration. The first relates to the definition of a student credit-hour,...
View ArticleUniversities and the Price of Ignorance
My friend and American Enterprise Institute colleague Alex Pollack had a brilliant column in the Wall Street Journal on March 14 that unintentionally speaks importantly to one of the many scandals...
View ArticleStraddling Both Sides of the Political Aisle
I suppose one of the perks of being a non-partisan think-tank is that regardless of which side of a political dispute we wind up on, we are sure to fine at least one person who likes what we say. The...
View ArticleOh, You Don’t Say!
The inestimable Lumina Foundation, which has crowned itself champion of the crusade to increase America's college attainment rate (with the explicit goal of increasing said rate to 60 percent by 2025,...
View ArticleGive It the Old College Try
This blog was written prior to Mitt Rommey announcing support for extending the low interest student loans discussed below. My criticism of that stand thus extends to both presidential candidates. Even...
View ArticleTrillion-Dollar Misunderstanding: The Seven Sins of Federal Student Loans
Charles Miller, chair of the Spellings Commission, reminded me the other day that that panel in its report referred to the federal financial aid system as “dysfunctional.” I think I (as a member of the...
View ArticleA Trillion Dollars of Student Loans: A Crisis Created in Washington
A week or so ago Richard Vedder delivered an address to Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center in Washington, DC. The topic was the large outstanding student loan balance and the role federal policy has...
View ArticleThey Just Don’t Get It
Sen. Tom Harkin has issued his final report on for-profit higher education, a book-length indictment of one-tenth of American higher education, the for-profit sector. Obviously I have not had an...
View ArticleThe Political Decisions That Make or Break Unionization
In 2004, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that graduate teaching assistants do not have the right to unionize, overturning a 2000 decision. Both rulings appear to be decisions of politics over...
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The U.S. Department of Education and Higher Education: An Assessment after 35...
EXTENDED REMARKS OF RICHARD K. VEDDER BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS U.S. SENATE, WASHINGTON, D.C., SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND HIGHER...
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