How the Economy could Impact ‘Niche’ Colleges

David Shieh reports in the Chronicle of Higher Education that Carnegie Communications has completed research which indicates that so-called ‘niche’ colleges (women’s, historically black, and Catholic colleges) may feel the brunt of an economic recession.

The research is based on polling…check it out, here.

Podcast November 24th – The Meaning of Thanksgiving

Join us on Blog Talk Radio on Monday, November 24th, at 6 pm Eastern/4 pm Mountain, as we discuss the meaning of the National Holiday of Thanksgiving.  Dr. William Allen and Dr. Carey Roberts, students of American history and politics, will discuss how this important national holiday has shaped American life and thought–not to mention cuisine!

View Dr. Allen’s website

Dr. Roberts’ website

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Wynnewood Institute: Fall Lecture Videos

From the Wynnewood Institute:

“Is ‘Social Justice’ Just?” by Thomas Patrick Burke, President, Wynnewood Institute, 09/09/2008
Read the text of the lecture (with Appendix).

“Senator Joe McCarthy: Blacklisted by History” by M. Stanton Evans, Journalist and Historian, 9/23/2008

Thomas Patrick Burke recently gave the above lecture to the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, MA.  If your organization should be looking for speakers, he can talk about several aspects of the problem of justice as well as other topics. For details click here.

Newt Gingrich on YouTube: Comments on the Wall Street Bailout

Newt and Callista Gingrich make the case for repealing Sarbanes-Oxley.

CNN Features Education

In this CNN Video from before the November 4th elections, we see what President Elect Obama’s campaign promises were for our nation’s educational system. CNN reports that Obama promised to increase early childhood funding, expand mentoring programs for teachers, give scholarships in exchange for government service in teaching, increase college financial aid, and make math and science a national priority.

Articles of Interest: College Tuition, the Economy, and more…

Following are some resources you might find interesting regarding college tuition, the economy, and more…

• Los Angeles Times: “Paying Off Debt: Smart Approaches and Stupid Ones”
• USA Today: Young people struggle to deal with kiss of debt
• Statehornet.com: A college tuition catch-22
• Collegenews.com: College tuition on the rise
• Boston.com: Huge debt incurred for college tuition just doesn’t make the grade
• Christian Science Monitor: College students: Don’t limit dreams with debt
• Center for College Affordability and Productivity: Net tuition and required fees charged at American schools have increased markedly over the last half decade.
• Rocky Mountain News: 42 percent of homes in Denver area sold for a loss
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Report says buyers stand to lose equity
• San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area homeowners owe more than home’s worth
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Student Aid Is Up, but the Rise in College Costs Outpaces Family Incomes, and AAUP Faculty Survey Facts and Figures , and also At U. of Chicago, Dispute Over Friedman Center Continues to Simmer

Battling Over Bailout for Private Student Loans

Doug Lederman at InsideHigherEd.com writes about the collapsing student loan market.

When Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. announced a shift last week in how the federal government planned to spend the rest of its $700 financial rescue fund — from buying financial firms’ troubled assets to helping stimulate consumer spending by improving the flow of financing to banks and firms that loan money to individuals — any student loan lobbyist worth his or her salt was probably drafting a letter of support within minutes. The plan suggested that the government was prepared to expand its previously planned efforts to ensure the flow of federal student loans — which Education Secretary Margaret Spellings amplified Thursday — and raised the specter that it could offer federal aid to providers of costlier, riskier and more controversial private student loans, too.

It wasn’t only lenders who cheered on the idea, though. On Monday, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators wrote to Paulson and Spellings not only to express its “gratitude and support” for the proposed shift of rescue funds to “aid banks and organizations that issue federal student loans,” but to encourage their departments to extend the financial backing to non-federal loans, as well…Continue reading on Inside Higher Ed >>

Undowments: Higher Education Goes for Broke

Peter Wood writes that higher education is broke and compelling students to go into oppresive debt.

The Dartmouth Review

Would it surprise you to find that the Dartmouth Review made a case for Bob Barr?  Read the paper here.