The College Cost BCS, in its second year, aims to bring attention to college affordability through football’s coveted college bowl games. What if these teams didn’t play ball and instead, faced off on how well they keep education affordable? Admittedly, the teams here are not a representative sample of higher education in America (nor are they the best in college sports, ahem). They do, howeverContinue Reading »

Andrew Delbanco has written a thorough and fair-minded article in the New York Review of Books about how the current economic crisis is exposing the way our higher education system is one “in which ‘merit’ is the ubiquitous slogan but disparity of opportunity is often the reality.” He makes one point, however, that deserves some scrutiny:

These institutions—long bContinue Reading »