I've seen a number of articles of late about the cost of college being a bubble. Professor Walter Russell Mead has written a number of prices on what he has seen about high costs, but also the value in University degree's. It isn't what it used to be.
One of his articles from a few weeks ago:
"The War Against the Young Part II"
Not only are American colleges and universities strangling the humanities, they are bankrupting an entire generation to do so. Another article by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus in The Atlantic provides the latest on the college loan bubble, which is nearing one trillion dollars across the country, and the misplaced priorities of American universities:
The rest of the piece is at:
https://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/18/the-war-against-the-young-part-ii/
Aug 29, 2011 @ 19:24:38
