Sarah Jaffe has been all over the issue of debt lately, chronicling who is profiting from the massive debt young people have to take on in order to graduate from college and how people are fighting ba
Great to know that the hilarity of blackface remains popular at some of our nation’s finer sororities and fraternities! And I thought we lived in a post-racial society! In all seriousness, this
This Bill Keller piece at the Times discusses Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun’s plan to eliminate the traditional university through technology, offering a future of higher education for at a
We don’t often think of professors as the most proletarianized of workforces; professors don’t usually think of themselves this way. But professors have been on the defensive against colle
I don’t know enough about the subject, so I guess I’ll just ask. Is this to be taken seriously? Last week’s announcement of new rules to bear down on career colleges like the Unive
Annie Lowery reports that the market may finally be responding to the overproduction of law degrees. Obviously, there’s nothing unusual about the overproduction of a graduate degree; law school