While the population has grown, the number of college students has declined in the past decade.
Once viewed as prestigious, high costs are now a deterrent, even if few students actually pay the full amount.
Once viewed as prestigious, high costs are now a deterrent, even if few students actually pay the full amount.
“Why do I want to put in all the money to get a piece of paper that really isn’t going to help with what I’m doing right now?”
https://reason.com/2023/03/09/fewer-people-are-going-to-college-that-could-be-a-good-thing/
The widening gap between grades and actual academic performance shows the perils of letting concern for “equity” drive educational policy. In a quest to pass more disadvantaged students, Los Angeles public schools may in fact be failing them.
The court here correctly, I believe, worked from the assumption that a government school was constitutionally required to be institutionally neutral about political values. The school as such could not prefer Black Lives Matter posters to MAGA hats, and could not base employment decisions on such preferences. It is evident that many university professors, administrators and leaders, at both public and private institutions, would not work from that same assumption.
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/12/29/doing-pickering-balancing-right/
“Academics seeking employment or promotion will almost inescapably feel pressured to say things that accommodate the perceived ideological preferences of an institution demanding a diversity statement, notwithstanding the actual beliefs or commitments of those forced to speak.”
Under the new regulations, Title IX investigators can deny students access to the evidence against them. …The new rules also allow schools to deny accused students a live hearing and the opportunity to question their accusers.
https://reason.com/2022/09/15/biden-guts-title-ix-due-process/
“Academics seeking employment or promotion will almost inescapably feel pressured to say things that accommodate the perceived ideological preferences of an institution demanding a diversity statement, notwithstanding the actual beliefs or commitments of those forced to speak.”