The Economics of PhDing
From GenomeWeb comes a summary of Lee Skallerup Bessette’s post on Insider Higher Ed about one of the hidden expenses of academic life: the conference debt. This post started as a twitter conversation, by the way. That’s reason 3, 196 that academics should be on twitter. Lee Skallerup Bessette at Inside Higher Ed‘s CollegeRead More “The Economics of PhDing”
For-profit College: Route to Opportunity or Unemployment?
Many of you know that my doctoral research examines for-profit colleges. This is a good summary of links for those interested in the scope and breadth of the current discussion surrounding for-profit higher education in the U.S. It’s particularly timely in light of presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s recent education policy platform. In that platform RomenyRead More “For-profit College: Route to Opportunity or Unemployment?”