College
1 Real, 1 Fake, Both True
“Even at elite colleges, most students leave school without a strong enough grasp on how to totally revitalize the manufacturing, housing, automotive, and health care industries of an entire country.”
Sarah Kendzior on Graduate School
Savage Minds interviewed Sarah Kendzior (who wrote about the U.N.’s unpaid internship the other week) about her experience in graduate school while earning a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology. It’s very good.
College Unbound
NPR has an excerpt of of Jeffrey Selingo’s book College Unbound, which economist Tyler Cowen says he liked so much that he read it in a single sitting.
Elizabeth Warren Continues to Kill It
Yesterday she introduced a piece of legislation (her first!) that would cut student loan interest rates to the rate banks pay to borrow money (when rates rise in July, students will pay nine times what banks pay). WARREN FOR EVERYTHING.
Financial Aid Practices
How should colleges balance merit aid for talented students who may not need the money with financial aid for students who come from low-income families?
Degrees of Value
I like the initial premise of this piece by Kevin Carey, the policy director of a think tank named Education Sector, in The New Republic—the idea that media outlets like to post sad stories about college graduates who are unable to find jobs in their fields of studies so they end up accepting work that doesn’t necessarily require a college degree (i.e. bartending, barista-ing), which ultimately devalues what a college degree is worth these days.
Tracking One High School Student’s College Decision-Making Process
Leobardo Espinoza Jr. is a student at Topeka High School in Kansas, and I’ve been following his posts on The Choice Blog as he decides where he’ll go to college—especially when he posted that he received a full academic scholarship to one of his fallback schools back in January (The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas).
A Call for Higher Wages for Adjuncts
A minimum of $5,000 per course—that’s what adjuncts and their supporters are asking for in their Mayday Manifesto that went live yesterday, according to Inside Higher Ed.
