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Higher education in America is in crisis. Costs are too high, learning is too little, and the payoff to students and society is increasingly problematic. In Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, Richard Vedder shows how the precarious position of colleges and universities results from a mostly unsuccessful expansion of governmental involvement in the academy, especially at the federal level.
Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure: The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children, appeared on the Andy Caldwell radio show on KUHL in Santa Maria, CA. Alger talks about private philanthropy and entrepreneurship as promising approaches to addressing numerous issues facing younger people in America.
Author of War and the Rogue Presidency, Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland is interviewed on the John Howell show on Chicago's WLS radio. Eland discusses the developing conflict with Iran and whether President Trump is listening to advisors such as John Bolton in order to move closer to war with Iran.
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency appears on the Lars Larson radio show.
The US is pulling all non essential staff from Iraq but China is the real threat if any to the US, not the Middle East, says Eland. Trump is less hawkish than Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton, he adds.
Independent Institute Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder (Professor Emeritus of Economics, Ohio University) speaks at the conference, “Putting the Ivory Tower Together Again: Identifying and Fixing the Faults,” sponsored by the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, February 12, 2019.
Dr. Vedder is the author of the new Independent book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, and at this event he was speaking regarding his chapter, “The Morrill Land-Grant Act: Fact and Mythology,” in the recent Cato book, Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America’s Broken Ivory Tower, edited by Todd J. Zywicki and Neal P. McCluskey.
Independent Institute Research Fellow Linda Royster Beito presents the life and contributions of T.R.M. Howard as a pioneer of the civil rights movement. Dr. Beito is also Professor of Social Sciences and Dean of Arts and Science at Stillman College. This event was held at La Sierra University on October 14, 2018.
Linda Royster Beito is co-author of the book T.R.M. Howard
Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer.
Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America appears on Fox Business News’ Varney & Co. Is government the cause of higher tuition and admission scandals surrounding US colleges and universities? Richard Vedder says yes, especially the crisis in student loan debt.
The US is sending an aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf as a warning to Iran. Iran has signaled it might violate part of the nuclear deal it reached in 2015. At the same time, rockets fired into Israel from Gaza has sparked more Middle East tension. Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of the new book War and the Rogue Presidency.
