student loan debt

October 04, 2022

Does College Get in the Way of Education?

Is college worth it? This has been the question for the past few years, especially in the wake of dropping enrollment. This drop has largely been a response to many college campuses going fully online and imposing a wide slew of mandates and prohibitions in response to the COVID pandemic. Continue Reading...

October 30, 2020

DOJ: Government grants induced Christians to commit fraud

Even the federal government now admits that its federal financial aid policy is so immoral it can turn theology students into criminals. The Justice Department accuses a Christian theological institute of creating phantom students in order to cash in on federal college funding. Continue Reading...

May 04, 2020

Don’t seize Harvard’s endowment. Cut off federal funding.

William F. Buckley Jr. frequently told the joke about the doctor who asked his patient what he planned to do now that he had only a few months left to live. Continue Reading...

September 17, 2019

New ‘Religion & Liberty’ focuses on the student loan crisis

The newest issue of Religion & Liberty has been uploaded. You can view it here. This issue of Religion & Liberty focuses on higher education in all its fulness. Two statistics throw the college tuition crisis into stark relief: Since 1978 – the year the federal government offered subsidized loans to all students – the cost of college tuition has risen by 1,375 percent. Continue Reading...

July 31, 2012

Understanding the Higher Ed Bubble

In addition to my post yesterday and other education related posts on the Powerblog (here, here, here, here, and here), I highly recommend this analysis of the higher ed bubble from educationviews.org Continue Reading...

June 21, 2012

Care Bears are Cheaper

I have recently written on the moral implications of growing tuition costs and the resulting student loan debt (here). One factor I did not explore in depth was the reason for rising tuition costs, which, adjusted for inflation, have more than doubled since the 1980s. Continue Reading...