The Postsecondary Drive to For-Profit Mentality
By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International This is the opening paragraph of this morning’s article in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Texas A&M University faculty members who are alarmed by the apparent influence that a conservative think tank is having on their university urged the system’s regents on Thursday to distance themselves from a group that they fear would move … Continue reading The Postsecondary Drive to For-Profit Mentality
More on the College Bubble: Job Outcomes for College Graduates
By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International In a follow-up to last week’s commentary, an article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education reported findings from a Rutgers University study, which shows that recent college graduates are having trouble finding new jobs. The study of 517 students who graduated between 2006 and 2010 found that only 53 percent currently hold a … Continue reading More on the College Bubble: Job Outcomes for College Graduates
The College Bubble
By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International There is a great article on the Huffington Post this week by Amanda Fairbanks called Peter Thiel’s College Bubble Theory Gains Few Believers. Thiel is one of the founders of PayPal and an investor in Facebook. He argues that higher education is on the bubble, just like housing was, and it will quickly devalue. … Continue reading The College Bubble
The NCAA: Missing the Point of a Higher Education
By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International Many of my colleagues know that I am not a big fan of the NCAA. Of course, I am a hypocrite. When my alma maters make the March Madness (Old Dominion University and George Washington University), I climb on the bandwagon. As soon as they lose, I turn it off. But the truth is … Continue reading The NCAA: Missing the Point of a Higher Education
For Your Consideration: The College Access & Success Enterprise (CASE)
By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International In the mid-1960s, as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the creation of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Federal TRIO programs were created, originally consisting of Talent Search, Upward Bound, and Student Support Services. Together, these three programs targeted low-income students, many of whom were and are minority students. … Continue reading For Your Consideration: The College Access & Success Enterprise (CASE)
The Swail Letter on Higher Education 