From the Boston Globe, Beth Wolfensberger Singer on the skills to get that college acceptance letter. It doesn't matter if your kid doesn't get into Harvard: Using the mind as a means to acquire a corner office is very different from enjoying intellectual activity for its own sake. Confessions of a Harvard Gatekeeper: Ivy League admissions are a sham. After flood of requests, elite colleges begin destroying admissions records. Why is so much of our discussion of higher ed driven by elite institutions? Beth McMurtrie on the rich man’s dropout club: Whatever happened to the teenage entrepreneurs whom Peter Thiel paid to forgo college? Robert Reich on why college isn’t (and shouldn’t have to be) for everyone. Mark Thoma on the best investment the U.S. could make — affordable higher education. Piketty to U.S: Fix your student debt crisis. The introduction to Student Loans and the Dynamics of Debt by Brad J. Hershbein and Kevin M. Hollenbeck. Monica Potts on how a radical student debt strike tugs at your heart- — but it's not the answer. “I was a professor at four universities. I still couldn’t make ends meet”: One former adjunct describes a system that's untenable. Phoebe Maltz Bovy on why adjunct professors shouldn’t expect students to care about their terrible jobs. Sarah Kendzior on academia’s 1 percent. Anger and activism greet plan to shut Sweet Briar College, “as a result of insurmountable financial challenges”. Ben Branstetter on how the death of for-profit colleges is coming.
