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Wise Investment: Governor hits mark with proposed student loan program

Post-Standard, Syracuse, N.Y. - Opinion Piece
January 5, 2009

Thirty-eight states currently provide their college students with some form of affordable student loan program. New York is the only state in the Northeast without this low-cost capital alternative for families. Implementation will help encourage New Yorkers to stay in New York and give them the choice to attend any college or university in the state.  (Regional emphasis)

Tuition blame game needs to stop

Indianapolis Star - Opinion Piece
January 4, 2009

How can colleges, families and government agencies work together to make college more affordable? Colleges must and will continue to be strategically frugal.  Families also can find ways to save.  The federal government can redesign the system for students to qualify for aid by eliminating the FAFSA form or linking it to families' IRS documents, and can use its economic clout to make sure that families have access to student loans.

One Gender's Crash

Washington Post - Opinion Piece
January 4, 2009

The experience of the past year suggests that we desperately need to bring more women into leadership positions on Wall Street, in politics, in regulatory bodies and in American life generally.  We need women in leadership positions not only because they can manage as well as men but because they manage differently than men; because they tend -- over time and in the aggregate -- to make different kinds of decisions and to accept and avoid different kinds of risk.

Low marks on higher education

St. Petersburg, Fla., Times
December 28, 2008

The most efficient use of higher education dollars is the Florida Resident Access Grant, or FRAG, which provides a $2,900 scholarship to Floridians who study full-time at private (nonprofit) colleges. That is much cheaper than the average cost to the state of $12,000 for supporting the same student at a public college.  (Regional emphasis)

The Economic Collapse and Educational Values

Inside Higher Ed - Opinion Piece
December 18, 2008

Much of what lies behind our current economic train-wreck stems from short-sightedness - focus on short-term goals and gains - and near-sightedness - seeking to maximize one vector without regard for context.  The system we use to grade students doesn't just mirror this scale of values. It blesses and promotes it.

An Economist's Tools of the Trade

Chronicle of Higher Education - Opinion Piece
December 9, 2008

What about my many years of almost total immersion in the dismal science? Does it translate to executive leadership? Can economics help a chief executive be more effective, or is it only the stuff of dry mathematical models and esoteric theories, with little practical value?

What an SAT score doesn't say

Boston Globe - Opinion Piece
November 27, 2008

The commission convened by the National Association for College Admission Counseling to study the use of standardized testing in college admissions expressed a concern that "test scores appear to calcify differences based on class, race/ethnicity, and parental educational attainment."  In an age of $400-per-hour one-on-one SAT tutoring programs, standardized tests no longer function as the great leveler they were when they were first introduced some 50 years ago.

Higher Education: Special Interest or National Asset?

Chronicle of Higher Education - Opinion Piece
November 17, 2008

It is time to strengthen and clarify the role that we at colleges and universities can play in this unsettling environment. Higher education has not been on the national agenda except insofar as we are viewed as less and less affordable, and to some extent less relevant to a broad range of challenges.  In effect, policy makers and the public view us as an elective at a time when more, not less, knowledge and preparation are needed to overcome our national difficulties.  That must change.

Eckerd's bright past, future

St. Petersburg, Fla., Times - Opinion Piece
November 15, 2008

Arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court almost 200 years ago on behalf of his alma mater, Daniel Webster said of Dartmouth College, "She is only a small school, but there are those who love her."  The same could be said of Eckerd College, which has meant so much to so many.  But why should others care? Why should Floridians care about a private school more expensive than the many, usually very large, public colleges and institutions of the state?

Look Beyond College 'Sticker Prices'

BusinessWeek - Opinion Piece
November 12, 2008

Not applying to schools with high sticker prices that offer significant financial aid could actually lead families to pay more for their children's education, not less.  And, in the process they might rule out great college options for their son or daughter.
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