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  • College Majors that Report the Highest Underemployment

    College Majors that Report the Highest Underemployment0

    Forbes recently ran an interesting article that analyzed college degree programs and underemployment. The article was based on a survey released by PayScale, which collected data from nearly one million workers between March 2014 and March 2016. Here are the 12 majors that reported the highest rates of underemployment (a situation in which someone is

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  • College Libraries are Purging Book Collections. Are They Discarding Thought as Well?

    College Libraries are Purging Book Collections. Are They Discarding Thought as Well?0

    While on a local university campus last fall, I decided to swing through the library. Near the entrance was a cart loaded with books waiting to be discarded. I made a beeline for it and soon left with an armload of books. Their loss was my gain. Unfortunately, that library isn’t the only one purging

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  • College Isn’t the Time for a “Broad Education”

    College Isn’t the Time for a “Broad Education”0

    I always roll my eyes when I hear liberal arts professors today defending general requirements and expounding on the glories of a broad education.  It’s not that I disagree with them about the value of a broad education (after all, my doctorate is in one of the liberal arts). It’s just that I think college

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  • College Isn’t for Everyone

    College Isn’t for Everyone0

    The best way to help a kid climb out of poverty and into the middle class is through a college education, right? At least, that’s what we’ve been told. But in our quest to get more impoverished kids into college, have we actually doomed them to a life of greater poverty? That’s a question explored

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  • College Illiteracy is Growing

    College Illiteracy is Growing1

    For a number of years, it was assumed that public education was swimming along, efficiently educating children of all ages. More recently, the products coming out of public schools have caused a troubling concern to leap into the minds of adults: are schools dumbing down the content they teach to students? That concern seems to

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  • College Enrollment is Decreasing… Is That a Good Thing?

    College Enrollment is Decreasing… Is That a Good Thing?0

    College enrollment is down for the fourth straight year, even though high school graduation rates are up. For an education system that pushes every child toward college, that may be bad news. But as an article in yesterday’s Atlantic claims, it may actually be a good thing. For one, declining college enrollment could be a

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