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Inside Higher Ed reports on a new study of the connection between college athletics and alumni giving, with some interesting findings: First, they find that male alumni who played on teams while they were undergraduates are more likely to donate...
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Posted on April 29, 2008 9:14 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As I may have mentioned in the past, we at Chateau Steelypips have benefitted greatly from Yale Law School's loan forgiveness program for graduates taking public service jobs. Since Kate shattered my dreams of a self-funded basement lab by deciding...
Posted on April 23, 2008 7:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Matt Yglesias, the Quick and the Ed offers an absolutely terrific article about the effect of class on access to college, using AJ Soprano as an example. On The Sopranos, AJ was a delinquent, who nevertheless got sent off...
Posted on April 3, 2008 11:46 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
EurekAlert provides the latest dispatch from the class war, the the form of a release headlined " Family wealth may explain differences in test scores in school-age children": The researchers found a marked disparity in family wealth between Black and...
Posted on March 25, 2008 8:58 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Inside Higher Ed, the Boston Globe reports that the Pentagon opposes increasing GI Bill funding. Why? Because if they gave them full tuition, eligible soldiers might not re-enlist: Now, five years into the Iraq conflict, a movement is gathering...
Posted on February 11, 2008 7:40 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Commenter "Matt" wrote a comment that pissed me off, and while it's probably futile to take on union-bashing again, it does highlight a couple of the things that make this so frustrating. In response to several people observing that teaching...
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Posted on January 8, 2008 9:11 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at the Whatever, Scalzi has some acid comments for Prof. Will Barrat's Social Class on Campus diagnostic tools, particularly the step forward exercise (I've linked the Web version-- John refers to the Word file): [F]or the purposes of this...
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Posted on January 4, 2008 9:40 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Inside Higher Ed offers two tables of numbers regarding the state of college football, one of them good, one of them bad.
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Posted on December 4, 2007 9:29 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of our senior physics majors has made a video promoting sustainability to students, and posted it on YouTube. I need to figure out the best way to link it from the department web page, but it occurs to me...
Posted on September 14, 2007 8:38 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What are college and universities doing with all that money?
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Posted on July 26, 2007 9:14 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lest I go two days without linking to Inside Higher Ed, there's a "Devil's Workshop" column from Wick Sloan today, in the form of a fake letter to Congress calling for higher taxes on higher education: Perhaps it's time for...
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Posted on June 29, 2007 9:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An article at Inside Higher Ed offers the clearest statement of the class problem that I've seen.
Posted on March 29, 2007 9:12 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An economist attempts to find out whether merit scholarships really help attract students.
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Posted on March 27, 2007 11:12 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Apparently, it's "economics of higher education" day here at Uncertain Principles. This time out, we have Steve Hsu on Larry Summers. (Update: I should also link to this post by Brad DeLong discussing the same article, with good stuff in...
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Posted on January 29, 2007 11:43 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Inside Higher Ed also features an opinion piece about Princteon's tuition freeze, following my alma mater's lead from 2000. While Princeton is larger and may carry more punch in the world of higher education than Williams, I will be very...
Posted on January 29, 2007 10:24 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Health care subsidies are found to have a bigger benefit than tuition subsidies, but how was the experiment done?
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Posted on January 17, 2007 9:55 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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