A 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 ArticleThe Debt Be with You!
Daniel Luzer of the Washington Monthly brought to my attention this piece by Mike Konczal wrote for Salon in which Konczal asks the rather obvious question: “Do we make both a conceptual and analytical...
View ArticleFive Constructive Ways to Change American Higher Education
Richard Vedder gave the following lecture at Dartmouth College as part of their Daniel Webster Project on October 14, 2014. My thanks to Dartmouth for inviting me to participate in the Daniel Webster...
View ArticleFederal College Ratings Will Harm Higher Education
On August 22, President Obama outlined his plan to make college more affordable for students and limit the financial strain that loans place on graduates. The new plan measures college performance and,...
View ArticleSenate Budget Committee on Student Financial Aid
Last Wednesday, Richard Vedder testified at a Senate budget committee hearing concerning student financial aid, debt, federal loan interest rates, and related topics. Video of the hearing is on C-SPAN,...
View ArticleA College Ratings Scheme Can’t Make the Grade
The Obama administration plans to release a federal rating system of colleges with an unspecified launch date to measure the benefit of attending a specific college. They hope to use it to determine...
View ArticleA New University Mantra: Publish or Perish
With the advent of the student loan crisis and the inflationary cost of college, one would be hard-pressed to find a more opportune time to eliminate marginal research programs which have plagued...
View ArticleNew CCAP Study on the Harmful Effects of Federal Student Aid
With Dollars, Sense, and Nonsense: The Harmful Effects of Federal Student Aid, CCAP provides an in-depth analysis of structural issues within higher education, the incentives produced by the federal...
View ArticlePolicies to Puncture the Student Loan Bubble
Richard Vedder participates in a panel discussion, moderated by the American Enterprise Institute’s Alex Pollock. Together with Andrew Kelly of AEI, Matt Chingos of Brookings Institute, and Jason...
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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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