There is no question: the price of higher education has increased to a very unpopular standard. Some private colleges and universities will even ask for more than $60,000 for one year of education, while students in countries like Norway, Scotland, Spain, Morocco, and Turkey, can attend post-secondary education for free. For the United States, there is no such bargain. In the past decade, federal student loan debt more than doubled from $41 billion to $103 billion.
Representatives of for-profit colleges stepped up their criticism Monday of the Education Department’s efforts to rewrite the “gainful employment” rules that would apply to their institutions and vocational programs at community colleges.
Wellesley College will invite Xia Yeliang, a Chinese economics professor recently fired by Peking University and an outspoken advocate for democracy and human rights in China, to be a visiting fellow.
Georgetown University has come under fire for inviting Ramy Jan, a founding member of the Egyptian Nazi Party, to speak at a conference next month called “Egypt and the Struggle for Democracy.” The university responded on Wednesday by rescinding its invitation.
New York University has agreed to let most of its graduate-student employees vote on forming a union, ending a dispute over the students' unionization rights that had been pending before the National Labor Relations Board.