As I mentioned recently, the time has come to start wrapping up a discussion of why college costs so darn much that began on this blog earlier in the year. That analysis actually started when a good friend who was familiar with my One Year BA project mentioned that, while she found that endeavor intriguing, wondered […]
Debt-Free U
This post marks the end of my summer book review series, which signals a wrapping up of Monday discussions regarding the high cost of college that began earlier in the year. Not that there isn’t a lot more to say about why the price tag associated with higher education has shot through the stratosphere, or […]
Returning to/Getting into College
Having spent the last week dodging moving trucks parked next to weepy parents, it looks as though the 2014-2015 academic year has officially commenced. With the new season, I plan to wrap up my Monday cost-of-college blog series shortly, although the experiment I’ve been running in the newsletter regarding how to pay for college seems […]
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis and the Cost of College – Continued
Last week, I began an attempt to reconcile two competing theories over why college costs as much as it does. One theory (the “Bennett Hypothesis”) holds that schools are responsible for the ever-inflating cost of tuition due to their readiness to suck up funds from any source (families, government grants, banks loans, etc.) through ever-escalating […]
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis and the Cost of College
Over the last two weeks, I talked about two competing theories regarding why the cost of college has risen faster than any other product or service. One theory, summed up in William Bennett’s Is College Worth It?, lays blame for this hyper-inflation on schools themselves which have taken advantage of huge pots of available money […]