The College Bubble 
Death and taxes and college tuition: sure things?
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- 1 August, 2012
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Too many thinkers knock on the walls of the box when it comes to college tuition reform but stop just short of getting outside it. They’re all pretty good at … Continue Reading →
Murray State upsets top seeds again – with fuzzy-buzzer-beater math
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- 28 July, 2012
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Congratulations to Murray State, a school better known for harassing top-seeds in the NCAA tournament, for upsetting every other college and university in the country with its top ranking on … Continue Reading →
Small Ivy Williams College Downgraded by S&P
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- 25 July, 2012
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Small Ivy and highly competitive Williams College was downgraded by Standard and Poor’s Rating Service within the last week, according to a report by Reuter’s. Williams College lost its AAA … Continue Reading →
Feds to College Grads: Give us Our Money, Today! Today! Today!
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- 24 July, 2012
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It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad and hypocritical. But the recent ruling that people could declare bankruptcy for certain private student loans lays bare the Federal government’s faulty … Continue Reading →
Apocalypse: Bain Report Says College Towns To Go Bust
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- 23 July, 2012
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Mitt Romney’s old firm seems to have identified a leak in the College Bubble: as colleges lay off workers and lose state funding, it hurts towns dependent on them. University … Continue Reading →
Not your mother’s hookah: campus life in 2012
- By collegebubblenet
- 23 July, 2012
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Thanks to writer Catherine Allchin for reminding us of how absurdly different “dorm life” once was from “campus life” today. Reading her column in Sunday’s NYT about the differences between her mother’s … Continue Reading →
Risk-based Interest Rate on College Loans
- By collegebubblenet
- 20 July, 2012
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Jay Hallen over at NRO makes an interesting case for introducing some risk-based pricing into the over one trillion-dollar college bubble. It only stands to reason that if the Federal Reserve stoked … Continue Reading →
Do Nick Saban and Alabama Football Help Academics?
- By collegebubblenet
- 19 July, 2012
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Nick Saban is already deep in thought about his football team’s prospects this year of repeating as national champions. What may not be fully appreciated by fans is that the ‘Bama football … Continue Reading →
Where is the Attention to Administrative Cuts?
- By collegebubblenet
- 19 July, 2012
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With all the recent tuition increases to keep pumping up the College Bubble and talk of potential layoffs, where is the right-sizing of higher education’s bloated administrative structure? A couple of years … Continue Reading →
Merit Aid (read: tuition discounting) on the Rise; Presents Strong Deals for Middle and Upper Middle Class
- By collegebubblenet
- 18 July, 2012
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The prevalence of merit aid (non-need-based aid, regardless of family income) is on the rise, according to a New York Times report, signalling perhaps that some top-tier colleges are losing their … Continue Reading →