Minding the Campus: “Exploding tuition and the related horror stories about crushing debt loads appear regularly in the media. Yet students and parents largely ignore these warnings. . . . Part of the problem is that the government seems to be encouraging too many students with little prospect of graduating to borrow money to attend college.”
Real Clear Politics: “American median income has grown 6.5 times over the past 40 years, but the cost of attending one’s own state college has ballooned 15 times. . . . American universities now rake in $40 billion a year more than they did 30 years ago. . . . The market will eventually recognize the out-of-whack economics of today’s ‘place-based colleges’ and intervene.”
The Frisky: “I have a terrible secret that is making it difficult for me to get close to women: I have $190,000 in student loan debt. . . . I am ashamed and embarrassed to be burdened by such student debt, and I can’t help but feel most women would be scared off by it. As a result, I’ve basically stopped dating or even trying to meet that special someone.”
Above the Law: “Law School Transparency, has requested all ABA-accredited schools to provide useful information to prospective law students — information that neither the ABA nor U.S. News currently collects. Without the regulatory hammer of ABA . . . or the public shaming of U.S News . . . LST is up against some long odds. . . . thus far, 188 law schools have completely ignored their efforts to report simple facts on the employment prospects of law school graduates.”
See the National Law Journal story called “Law schools give cold shoulder to transparency project.”
Connecticut Law Tribune: “There’s nothing like a scorned law school graduate with mounting debt and a niche in cyberspace to stir up a great debate about the merits of a legal education. At a time when hundreds of junior associates have been laid off and scores of newly minted graduates remain jobless, there’s a growing movement online to diss the law school experience. Several dozen blogs have gained notoriety for revealing what is often characterized as the ‘“law school scam’.”