I’m not sure how many EMUTalk.org readers are students (I sense more faculty, staff, and administrators around here), nor am I vetting the accuracy of these ideas, but Lifehacker is one of my favorite blogs, and this advice in “The Complete Guide to Saving Money on Textbooks” seems useful to me.
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I’ve come across a couple of interesting articles analyzing the reasons why higher education is so expensive, especially relative to other things that people value. This article in Forbes.com, “Why Does College Cost So much?” is a summary of a forthcoming book by Robert Archibald and David Feldman, and it rings true to me. [...] I’m back in town and (very VERY slowly) getting back into the swing of things, and I stumbled across this Echo story, “Free food, sun draw crowd to campus picnic.” The EMU home page is rotating some images in the masthead, but no pictures with this article. I was struck by this sentence: “Unofficial [...] According to this AP article/blurb, about $320,000. Frankly, that strikes me as a pretty good deal. One of the mailing lists I follow posted this the other day, a blog entry from Michael Feldstein (who is a “Principal Product Manager for Academic Enterprise Solutions at Oracle”), “DIY U: Is There a Bubble in the Higher Education Market?” He’s making reference here to a book called DIY U, which is basically [...] Let me say again at the outset that I do support the decision to freeze tuition and fees at EMU for 2010 for all sorts of obvious reasons. I’m just a little worried about it for all sorts of other reasons, and I am now also wondering just how long this idea has been [...] This informative chart from the usually funny PHD Comics offers a compelling explanation as to why the cost of higher education is rising so quickly: I think it leaves two things out: first, since the 1980s, states have been trying to get out of the higher education “business,” which is why most universities– [...] Not that I want to give the Board of Regents any ideas, but remember that whole bit about how tenured faculty can’t get fired unless the institution is about to go broke? Well, Inside Higher Ed’s “Layoffs Without ‘Financial Exigency’” suggests not so much. Here’s a long opening quote from the article: One of [...] This was forwarded to a mailing list I’m on in my field, but I thought it was really quite relevant here: “Public Agenda survey finds deep skepticism” is from the Washington Post blog “College Inc., ” which is an interesting blog about the business of higher education. The subtitle of the piece is “An [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader (perhaps one interested in becoming a regular contributor?) sent me a link to this Jack Lessonberry commentary, “Praise for the Governor.” Lessonberry is commenting on Granholm’s reply to Mike Bishop’s plan for cutting state employee pay, something we discussed here a couple weeks ago. I thought this quote was pretty [...] |
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