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Overview

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, 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.

The book examines today’s most serious issues in higher education, including free speech and academic freedom; tuition and other costs; culture and curricula; governance; gender, race and diversity; due process; admissions; student loans; and much more. It diagnoses problems and identifies solutions.

For example, the total cost of college per student in the United States is now higher than in any other country. When combining the monetary costs of college with the opportunity costs of losing years of labor to the economy, the true cost of higher education to American society well exceeds one trillion dollars annually. Yet, despite American higher education’s immense price tag, students are learning less than ever before and continue to be underemployed.

The book discusses the three “I’s” of university reform: information, incentives, and innovation. Without information, it is impossible for taxpayers and governing authorities to ensure that public education spending truly furthers the broader interests of society rather than the narrow interests of faculty and administrators.

Shaping incentives for management would help to reduce costs and improve quality. Business practices such as Responsibility Centered Management (RCM), for example, allow profit to motivate efficiency and encourage learning outcomes.

And expanding the use of innovation in technology and open online courses, along with relinquishing old rules such as tenure and three-month summer vacations, offer new hope for institutions of higher education.

The book discusses such additional reforms as the following:

  • Ending or revising the federal student financial aid program
  • Giving departments or even professors a share of overall revenue based on student enrollments in their classes. Departments or professors would then be required to pay their share of travel, building rental, maintenance, utilities, and other such costs from the revenues they receive
  • Providing earnings data on former students by college five, ten or fifteen years after matriculation. Prospective students (and parents) as well as lawmakers and oversight officials would be assisted regarding school successes and failures
  • Increasing faculty teaching loads
  • Instituting three-year degrees and year-round instruction
  • Ending discrimination against for-profit schools
  • Ending grade inflation
  • Ending speech codes and other barriers to academic freedom
  • Ending affirmative action and related diversity programs
  • And more...

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Higher Education’s Triple Crisis
1: Why Go to College Anyway?
2: College Is Too Costly
3: Students Aren’t Learning Critical Knowledge and Employable Skills
4: College Graduates Are Underemployed

Part Two: How Did We Get Here?
5: Nearly Four Centuries of Higher Learning
6: Why Fees and Costs Are Rising So Fast
7: Why Endowments Don’t Lower the Cost of Tuition
8: The Federal Student Financial Assistance Debt Crisis

Part Three: Where Does All the Money Go?
9: Universities’ Spending Perversities
10: Nonacademic Activities and Rip-Offs
11: The Edifice Complex
12: The Costly Enterprise of Intercollegiate Athletics

Part Four: Is Educating Students a Top Priority?
13: The Conundrum of Research
14: The Academic Cartel of Accreditation
15: The Scandal of Diversity
16: The Weaknesses of Current University Governance

Part Five: Where Do We Go from Here?
17: The Three I’s of University Reform
18: The Failure of Government Higher Education Policy
19: Reforming Higher Education

Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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  • America’s colleges and universities are increasingly expensive—far more costly than 25 or 50 years ago—causing graduates to defer buying a home, starting a family, saving for retirement, and pursuing the American Dream. While growing incomes and wealth have made almost everything else more affordable, it now takes a larger portion of income for most Americans to pay for college compared to one or two generations ago. The increased cost reflects many factors—some tied to the labor-intensive nature of teaching—but the main fault lies with misguided government policies, especially federal student financial assistance programs that artificially boost demand and enable schools to exploit students through price discrimination. Data from the New York Federal Reserve Bank and the National Bureau of Economic Research suggest that every dollar per student in federal financial aid leads to about a 60 cent increase in tuition fees.
  • The saddest truth about higher education is that most college students learn relatively little while in school. Although colleges are supposed to be in the information and knowledge business, they know shockingly little about the educational “value added” they impart to students during their collegiate years. The evidence of Richard Arum and Josipa Roska, after surveying more than 2,300 students on diverse campuses, suggests that students gain little important knowledge, with some exceptions in technical areas such as engineering, nursing, architecture, or accounting, where colleges teach vocationally useful material. Low levels of learning are not surprising, because students spend little time in classrooms or studying—on average less than 30 hours weekly for about 32 weeks a year.
  • Higher education often confers surprisingly little advantage in the job market, making college a risky investment for many. An October 2018 report by Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that around 40 percent of recent college graduates are “underemployed,” filling jobs traditionally filled by high school graduates—Uber drivers, baristas, big box store cashiers, and other jobs not requiring a degree. Some 40 percent or more of students fail to graduate from college in even six years. To be sure, for many Americans, going to college is worthwhile financially, but there are significant risks involved.
  • Colleges are notoriously inefficient, with few incentives to lower costs or improve quality. Often the incentives they face create perverse outcomes, such as a growing ratio of employees to students over the past half century. Colleges are swarming with administrators—more than faculty. Buildings lie empty much of the year. Professors at even teaching-oriented schools rarely teach even 400 hours a year, down at least one-third over the past half century.
  • Making matters worse, academic debate on campus has increasingly yielded to intellectual conformity. Despite exceptions, many prominent campuses have become bastions of a progressive leftish monoculture: the faculty espouse overwhelmingly similar views on political and cultural issues, tolerance of alternative viewpoints is stifled, and original research demonstrates that outside speakers also tend to have a strong leftish orientation. Reasoned debate among alternative viewpoints is too often limited.

Synopsis

American universities are facing unprecedented challenges: falling enrollments and declining public support are causing more schools to close their doors. In a half of a century, they have gone from a Golden Age of expansion and affluence to a drearier era of decline. What’s troubling academia—and what can be done to spark renewal?

The answers are complex. But at the heart of the problem, according to economist Richard K. Vedder, is that higher education lacks incentives to change, to innovate, to operate efficiently. It often even lacks vital information measuring the problems it faces. Much of the difficulty arises because third parties, especially government, help finance the enterprise, so the discipline that markets impose on businesses does not exert its salutatory effects in the academy.

In Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, Vedder offers a probing analysis of serious problems facing higher education, particularly its excessive costs, inadequate student academic achievement, and its failure to prepare graduates for life beyond the academy. More than a diagnosis of what ails American academia and why, Restoring the Promise offers powerful prescriptions to cure the underlying problems and foster a renaissance in higher education.

Higher Education’s Triple Crisis

Many Americans—some polls say a majority—complain that colleges are too costly. College prices have risen roughly three percent more annually than the overall inflation rate in the past 40 years, although that increase is now slowing.

Rising costs might be warranted if this were accompanied by qualitative improvements in educational services. But are students actually learning more? The evidence suggests otherwise. The most comprehensive study, by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, shows little improvement in critical thinking or writing abilities during college. In addition, professors are teaching much less than their counterparts of the 1960s, while the students are studying a lot less—but getting much higher grades. Students are doing less for more.

Rising costs might also make sense if they conferred growing advantages in the job market, but this appears not to be the case. While college graduates earn more than high school diploma holders, that differential is not growing, and there are far more college graduate workers than jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree. Moreover, at some non-elite schools, starting pay on average is low, and many fail to graduate.

High costs, mediocre academic outcomes, and inadequate payoffs to students and society constitute higher education’s triple crisis.

How Did We Get Here?

For much of U.S. history, higher education has been a growth industry. At the time of the American Revolution, there were 774 students at nine American colleges. The numbers grew rapidly and fairly consistently until recent years, when enrollments actually started declining. Today the proportion of adult Americans with college degrees now exceeds 30 percent.

Rising incomes, population, and job-skill requirements contributed to rising demand for a college education, as did a greater college–high school earnings differential. Another factor is particularly important: the surge in federal student loan and grant programs after 1965. Some blame the labor-intensity of teaching for rising costs; others blame declining state support. Of major importance, however, is the Bennett Hypothesis: greater federal student loan availability largely explains higher tuition fees. The huge rise in federal student debt created a myriad of unintended problems, including reduced fertility and homeownership for debt-laden young adults.

Misplaced priorities only compound the problem. Although some schools depend heavily on endowments, the evidence shows that little endowment money is spent to make college more affordable to students. Instead, the staff benefit from higher compensation, lower teaching loads, and other perks. Indeed, despite rising federal financial assistance and growing endowments, the proportion of recent college graduates from the bottom quintile of the income distribution has actually declined since 1970.

Where Does All the Money Go?

At most modern universities, somewhere between 25 and 40 percent of spending goes towards things not directly related to the academic mission; it is spent on things like food services, medical clinics, or intercollegiate athletics.

But even within spending on core activities, less than half goes directly for instruction. Spending for “research,” “academic support,” “student services” and “institutional support” each consume typically over 10 percent of university budgets. Instructional and research spending as a share of budgets has fallen over time. Administrative staffs have soared in size and importance, while the faculty has lost some clout (although they have been bribed, figuratively speaking, with lower teaching loads). In the 1970s, schools typically had more than two faculty members per bureaucrat; now there is less than one.

The rise in tuition fees is accompanied by soaring prices of university-provided food and housing, which have risen faster than in the non-university private economy. University costs have increased also because of an “edifice complex,” huge outlays for elaborate buildings and sports facilities with climbing walls, atriums, and “lazy rivers.” At the same time, maintenance spending is woefully inadequate on most campuses.

The biggest collegiate scandal of all, some believe, is intercollegiate athletics. It is increasingly highly costly, with good athletic performance lining the pockets of plutocratic coaches at the expense of athletes who are underpaid but often scarred with debilitating long-term health issues. Scandals abound.

Is Educating Students a Top Priority?

As universities deemphasize teaching, they have put much emphasis on research. At many schools, research dollars are a big source of revenue. Yet much non-STEM research is not even read much or cited by other scholars. Federal policies on overhead costs for research make little sense and mainly benefit university bureaucracies. Non-university research organizations, especially think tanks, provide some needed competition.

Academic accreditation is highly ineffective—complex, costly, secretive, provides little consumer information, emphasizes inputs rather than outcomes, stands as a barrier to entry and innovation, and promotes excessive federal control. It also is riddled with conflicts of interests.

Another challenge to traditional aims of higher education can be heard in the top buzzword on today’s campuses: “diversity.” By most measures, universities are far more demographically diverse than ever. Yet despite growing enrollment of racial minorities, their academic performance is often disappointing, in part because of mismatching—pushing minorities to attend schools for which they are academically unprepared.

Another sort of diversity, however, has declined: diversity of the mind. Campuses are increasingly dominated by left-oriented faculty, sometimes to the exclusion of many alternative perspectives. More fundamental is the problem of governance: who runs—or even “owns”—the universities? Governing boards are often rubber stamps for administrations, often ignorant of key facts needed to make objective decisions.

Where Do We Go from Here?

To spark a renaissance in higher education, three “I” words are critical: information, incentives, and innovation. We need better information about how much students learn; we need for schools to have a greater stake in boosting academic achievement; and we need smarter ways to improve educational services.

In a major way, higher education is a poster child for government failure. Government—at both the state and federal level—has contributed importantly to the huge increase in the costs of attending universities, providing instead “economic rents” (unnecessary income/compensation payments) to faculty and staff. The U.S. Department of Education has not helped.

What to do? The most fundamental reforms involve ending university monopolies on certifying educational and vocational competence. One alternative is to develop competitive institutions of quality control. For example, non-college organizations could package academic courses and award degrees whose quality is verified by external examination.

Another key reform is to eliminate, or at least radically reform, traditional federal student financial aid programs. One alternative is to promote new private ways of funding, such as Income Share Agreements. Another measure sure to ameliorate the problem is to insist that colleges share in covering loan defaults (i.e., “have skin in the game”). Many smaller reforms would also be useful, such as downsizing university bureaucracies, offering three-year bachelor’s degrees, ending grade inflation, and prohibiting race-centered admissions.

If changes are not made either from within or from outside pressure, markets will force some much needed Schumpeterian “creative destruction” upon American higher education. The sooner we address the problems head on—by focusing on obtaining actionable information, properly aligning the institutional incentives, and fostering educational innovation—the sooner we will enjoy the fruits of an educational renaissance.

Praise

Praise

“In his book Restoring the Promise, Richard Vedder continues in his role as the conscience of modern higher education. Readers will have to determine their own answers, but Dr. Vedder is asking all the right questions.”
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., President, Purdue University; former Governor, State of Indiana

“Richard Vedder is a major national resource on higher education. No one knows it better—especially what is wrong with it, why and how it got to be wrong, and how and where we might make it right, or at least better. In Restoring the Promise, Vedder chronicles higher education’s waste, duplication, overpricing, and broken promises. So much wrong and so many misrepresentations for so much money!! If we want to fix it, his chronicle is a good place to start. Thorough, scholarly, probative and revealing.”
William J. Bennett, former Secretary, U.S. Department of Education; former Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities; author (with David Wilezol), Is College Worth It? A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education; editor, The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

"We are at the end of an era in American higher education. . . . It reached full bloom after World War II, when the spigots of public funding were opened in full, and eventually became an overpriced caricature of itself, bloated by a mix of irrelevance and complacency and facing declining enrollments and a contracting market. No one has better explained the economics of this decline—and its broad cultural effects—than Richard Vedder. . . . Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America is a summary of the arguments he has been making . . . as the Cassandra of American colleges and universities. Despite the optimistic tilt of the book’s title, Mr. Vedder has little to offer in the way of comfort. . . . A demographic shift might pave the way for some of the reforms Mr. Vedder puts forward—converting federal loan programs to vouchers and allowing students to assemble self-tailored programs across a variety of institutions; making a national Collegiate Learning Assessment the real credential for a degree rather than the mix of vacuous classes and inflated grading that now suffices; upping campus facility use to year-round schedules that will permit the completion of a degree program in three years rather than four. A more probable outcome will see the Ivies and elite liberal-arts colleges survive relatively unscathed but regional and mid-range private colleges merge or close—like Newbury College in Massachusetts, which shut down last month—with public systems absorbing the rest. It won’t be the future Mr. Vedder hopes for, but it will help bring to a close an era that he has, rightly, come to deplore."
The Wall Street Journal

“In Restoring the Promise, Richard Vedder brings experience from a venerable career as economist and historian to an analysis of the troubled state of higher education. His research is data driven, his writing is uncomplicated, and his arguments are persuasive enough to worry standard-issue academic administrators. Hurrah!”
John W. Sommer, Knight Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina; former Dean, School of Social Science, University of Texas at Dallas; editor, The Academy in Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher Education

“Building on a lifetime of scholarship and experience in his book Restoring the Promise, Richard Vedder provides a backstage tour of the multitudinous dysfunctions of American higher education. You may not like what he shows you, but you’ll savor the tour.”
Bryan D. Caplan, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; author, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

“Richard Vedder has seen our higher education problems coming miles away. From skyrocketing tuition and crushing student debt to the diminishing utility of a college education and the underemployment of graduates, Vedder has spent decades looking at the data and warning that this will not end well. If you want to understand how higher education came to this crisis and how it can be fixed, start with his book, Restoring the Promise.”
Jason L. Riley, Member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and Naomi Schaefer Riley, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

“American higher education promises so much—excellence, access, diversity, world-class research—and yet it delivers far too little for so many students. The problems are many—high cost, micromanaging from the federal government, diversity programs that do more harm than good—the list goes on. The book, Restoring the Promise by Richard Vedder, America’s premier expert on higher education, offers a comprehensive and sobering look at how we got here and where we might head in pursuit of better higher education. Forget the bromides of politicians, this book is a clear-eyed starting point for higher education policy. If I could put one book in the hands of university boards (and their presidents), it would be this one.”
Jonathan J. Bean, Professor of History, Southern Illinois University

“Richard Vedder keeps a Post-it Note in his office: ‘Never have so many spent so much for so long learning so little.’ When Winston Churchill spoke the words on which Vedder’s witticism is based, only 5% of Americans had a college degree, and colleges inculcated a spirit of civic pride and noblesse oblige. Today, more than 50% of Americans have attended some college, and these institutions have become a breeding ground of entitlement and resentment. In Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, Vedder, a distinguished emeritus professor of economics at Ohio University, does not provide a roadmap to restoration so much as a catalogue of the ways in which higher education has become a bad bargain. . . . Time and again, Vedder declares that his preferred solution would be to eliminate federal financial aid and dramatically curtail state government involvement, only to acknowledge that it’s politically unfeasible and to suggest more modest reforms. . . . Higher education is perhaps the most regressive government redistribution, providing a benefit primarily to those with the strongest economic prospects. . . . Our current system exacerbates the cultural divide: not only do the highly educated increasingly mix only with themselves, but all the while they insist that a bachelor’s degree is a prerequisite for first-class citizenship, reinforcing their privilege even as they bemoan all forms of oppression. . . . But in a time of increasing public dissatisfaction with America’s colleges and universities, Richard Vedder’s Restoring the Promise may yet show future statesmen how best to restore these institutions to their proper place.”
Claremont Review of Books

“Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University Richard Vedder’s new book, Restoring the Promise, published by the Independent Institute based in Oakland, California, is about the crisis in higher education. He summarizes the three major problems faced by America’s colleges and universities. First, our universities ‘are vastly too expensive, often costing twice as much per student compared with institutions in other industrialized democracies.’ Second, though there are some important exceptions, students ‘on average are learning relatively little, spend little time in academic preparation and in some disciplines are indoctrinated by highly subjective ideology.’ Third, ‘there is a mismatch between student occupational expectations after graduation and labor market realities.’ College graduates often find themselves employed as baristas, retail clerks and taxi drivers. . . . Vedder has several important ideas for higher education reform. First, we should put an end to the university monopoly on certifying educational and vocational competency. Non-college organizations could package academic courses and award degrees based upon external examinations. Regarding financial aid, colleges should be forced to share in covering loan defaults, namely they need to have some skin in the game. More importantly, Vedder says that we should end or revise the federal student aid program. Vedder ends Restoring the Promise with a number of proposals with which I agree:

  • College administrative staff often exceeds the teaching staff. Vedder says, ‘I doubt there is a major campus in America where you couldn't eliminate very conservatively 10 percent of the administrative payroll (in dollar terms) without materially impacting academic performance.’
  • Reevaluate academic tenure. Tenure is an employment benefit that has costs, and faculty members should be forced to make tradeoffs between it and other forms of university compensation.
  • Colleges of education, with their overall poor academic quality, are an embarrassment on most campuses and should be eliminated.
  • End speech codes on college campuses by using the University of Chicago Principles on free speech.
  • Require a core curriculum that incorporates civic and cultural literacy.
  • The most important measure of academic reforms is to make university governing boards independent and meaningful. In my opinion, most academic governing boards are little more than yes men for the president and provost.”
Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University; columnist, Creators Syndicate

“Richard Vedder is the leading economist of higher education in America. Higher education today is too expensive, too irrelevant, and too plagued by political correctness to deliver promised value to its students or the country at large. And not only do those problems persist, they are getting increasingly worse. Why is the system so resistant to change? Vedder provides the time-honored lesson—'Follow the money.’ Reform of higher education means changing incentives, and changing incentives means reviewing the thicket of regulations and subsidies that distort the industry. Restoring the Promise is Vedder’s magnum opus and an important read for anyone concerned about students, parents, and taxpayers are getting their money's worth.”
Todd J. Zywicki, University Foundation Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University; Co-Editor, Supreme Court Economic Review

“With Restoring the Promise, Richard Vedder has written a thorough and thoughtful book on higher education in nearly all of its aspects. It is a marvelous endeavor and a rich resource for wonks as well as bystanders. One is not obliged to agree on philosophy or politics to appreciate this important contribution.”
A. Lee Fritschler, former Vice President and Director, Center for Public Policy Education, Brookings Institution; former Assistant Secretary for Post-Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education; former President, Dickinson College; Professor Emeritus, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University; former Chairman, U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission

Restoring the Promise is destined to become the must-read resource for anyone hoping to understand why college tuition is so obscenely expensive and why students emerge from college, if they graduate at all, with an almost unblemished ignorance about history and the achievements of the West. Richard Vedder’s calculations of college endowments per student—nearly $3 million at Princeton University, for example—are alone worth the price of admission. University administrators will hate Restoring the Promise, since it demolishes the arguments that more federal student aid is the solution to ballooning tuition costs and that not enough teenagers are attending college. Everyone else should welcome it.”
Heather L. Mac Donald, Thomas W. Smith Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; author, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture

“Over the last 20 years, no economist has spent more time in productive thinking about American higher education than Richard Vedder. In his book, Vedder refutes many of the mistaken beliefs about college, probes the reasons for its woeful inefficiency, and shows how we can rescue higher education from the interest groups that now control it. If you are concerned about higher education, put Restoring the Promise on the top of your reading list.”
George C. Leef, Director of Research, James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

“If you truly want to understand the current crises in American higher education, start with Restoring the Promise, a masterful and eye-opening work of analysis and diagnosis.”
Alan Charles Kors, Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History, University of Pennsylvania; Co-Founder and former Chairman, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education; and co-author (with Harvey A. Silvergate), The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses

“American higher education appears to have lost its way. A short list of problems includes: escalating and unaccountable costs; documented decline of the quality and extent of learning; growing misfit between the educational experience and life prospects; obsession with administrative and political agendas that far too often compromise the pursuit of truth and intellectual freedom that are higher education’s raison d’etre. As a critical friend of higher education, Richard Vedder deploys in his superb book Restoring the Promise the considerable analytical skills that have made him one of America’s leading scholars of higher education to not only illuminate the origins and nature of the problems that beset us, but to also provide us with highly informed and instructive remedies to right the ship.”
Donald A. Downs, Alexander Meiklejohn Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Law and Journalism; the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Emeritus Professor of Political Science; and Co-Founder of the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy; University of Wisconsin, Madison; author, Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus

“Richard Vedder is among America’s foremost students of higher education. His indictment of America’s colleges in his book Restoring the Promise is on the mark and his recommendations thought provoking. Everyone interested in higher education should read and ponder this book.”
Benjamin Ginsberg, David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair, Center for Advanced Governmental Studies, Johns Hopkins University; author, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters

“Richard Vedder’s Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America outlines the labyrinth of interconnected issues that require our collective attention. As noted by Vedder, there are a variety of stakeholder groups with broad, and often competing, interests; nevertheless, cooperation and collaboration are required to sustain these pillar institutions that were established to support the common good. This volume situates the current issues in higher education within their historical context, providing explanation and insight for how institutions, university systems, and the higher education industry writ large might strategically and realistically pave a shared path forward. With 19 chapters organized into five parts, the text serves as a primer for critical yet justified positions on higher education in the United States. . . . Vedder likens the reform process to that of disease diagnosis and treatment. He fairly recognizes the broader, systemic changes required as well as institutional level reform. Vedder suggests the current state of affairs is one of ‘crisis that seemingly is difficult to end’ (p. 355) yet the possibility for abrupt change remains. . . . While Vedder argues that the reform we require will originate externally, we agree with his assertion that we have ‘a capacity for surmounting challenges and indeed even shown a love of innovation and change’ (p. 356). . . . Professor Vedder’s expertise in economics provides an important disciplinary lens for the discussion of higher education, particularly as it informs leaders’ stewardship of public resources, their commitment to maintaining public trust, and the collective effort to sustain institutions’ contributions to the public good. Informed by research and decades of experience on campuses throughout the United States, his commentary provides timely attention toward issues that require collaboration across stakeholder groups. Restoring the Promise is recommended for anyone with an interest in or responsibility related to higher education, including university leaders, governing boards, faculty members, policy makers, and community partners. Readers are encouraged to remain discerning consumers of opinion while reviewing his recommendations, particularly in light of context, perspective, and lived experience, and to continue their exploration and research of these complex, multifaceted issues. Unpacking higher education’s problems, developing solutions, implementing change, and monitoring outcomes for continuous improvement will require broad representation of stakeholder groups and varied expertise. Vedder is one of many who are grappling with the full scope of reform needed in American higher education; yet, he remains an essential voice supported by his critical candor.”
Teachers College Record

“At last, Restoring the Promise is a lucid 360-degree examination of the whole of American higher education, sparing no idols. Richard Vedder commands near-encyclopedic knowledge of his subject and he writes with flair. His excellent book is not another sky-is-falling pronouncement of doom on colleges and universities that have become unaffordable, unaccountable, and intellectually mediocre. Rather, he takes the failures one by one and shows how we as a nation could solve them though practical policy choices. Vedder is a distinguished economist and possesses an economist’s eye for the tradeoffs we inevitably make when we demand a dozen things from colleges and universities besides teaching and research. He asks tough questions, adduces pertinent data, and advances compelling answers. His tone is temperate but his conclusions will surely dismay those who are complacent about how we are preparing the next generation for leadership. This is one of the best books written about higher education in the last quarter-century. The inherited strengths of our system weighed against its flaws, temptations, and corruptions are laid forth with precision by a scholar who knows exactly what’s what.”
Peter W. Wood, President, National Association of Scholars; former Provost, The King’s College, New York

“American higher education, for all its great achievements, suffers from serious dysfunction. In the thorough and incisive book, Restoring the Promise, Richard Vedder demonstrates that the ways universities are governed, regulated, subsidized, and funded create perverse incentives. These perverse incentives explain why universities have bloated administrative staffs, spend too much space on low value projects, why most students learn so little, and why costs are out of control. Regardless of what we what universities to do—create high-value research, educate the next generation of civic and business leaders, or help disadvantaged citizens get a step up into the middle class—reform is needed. Restoring the Promise doesn’t just diagnose the disease, but offers us a cure that we can reasonably hope to get.”
Jason F. Brennen, Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; co-author (with Phillip Magness), Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Bad Business Ethics of Higher Education

“Richard Vedder’s book, Restoring the Promise, provides a tough-minded blueprint for resolving American higher education’s crisis of confidence. He skillfully draws from historical and economic analyses as the base of reason to achieve the revelation that our colleges and universities can regain their proper footing and missions. This well-written, thoroughly researched work cuts through the public relations images and ideologies that have stalled higher education of the 21st century at a time when they most need to confront a host of internal and external problems that will no longer be fixed by business as usual. Vedder combines good writing with critical thinking in dissecting the dilemmas of prices and costs along with access and affordability that have been turning the American Dream of higher education into an educational and financial nightmare. Vedder’s book helps leaders in American higher education turn away from complacence and indecision toward informed reflection and discussions about institutional practices and public policies in rebuilding a base that in turn will be essential to restoring the promise of going to college.”
John R. Thelin, University Research Professor, History of Higher Education and Public Policy, College of Education, University of Kentucky; author, A History of American Higher Education and Going to College in the Sixties

“In Restoring the Promise, Richard Vedder has used his vast experience and research to craft an exceptional critique of U.S. higher education. I daresay that nobody will agree with all of his conclusions. But I am also sure that nobody will fail to be challenged by his arguments and data. Higher education is an area where the participants regularly pat themselves on the back for what they are doing and regularly suggest that the only real problem is that there is not enough of it. Vedder offers a refreshing contrarian view.”
Eric A. Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; former Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office; former Member, Equity and Excellence Commission, U.S. Department of Education

“In Richard Vedder, and with his book Restoring the Promise, higher education has found a determined and articulate gadfly, ready to sting it out of its dysfunction and lethargy. Not everyone will agree with all of Dr. Vedder’s diagnosis and remedies, but any higher education leader who ignores them imperils the future of the colleges and universities that are the engines of our progress and prosperity.”
Michael B. Poliakoff, President, American Council of Trustees and Alumni; former Director, Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities

“Richard Vedder takes readers on a most sobering campus tour. Though America’s universities may be the pride of the world, Vedder marshals meticulous evidence to argue they are delivering services of declining educational quality at escalating prices. As its title suggests, Restoring the Promise offers numerous ideas for arresting these trends. Most every reader will agree with some and disagree with others, but everyone concerned with the future of higher education would benefit from bringing them into the conversation.”
Jacob L. Vigdor, Daniel J. Evans Professor of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington

“America’s ivory tower is cracking—all over. Richard Vedder, informed by decades of working in the tower, and years of analyzing its myriad faults, has answers. If you care at all about higher education—and you’d better, because you’re paying for it—you need to read the invaluable, incisive volume, Restoring the Promise.”
Neal P. McCluskey, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute

“Richard Vedder is known as a strident critic of the higher education establishment in the U.S. But, it would be wrong to think he doubts the value of education. Instead, much of his ire, and the power of his critiques, come from his intimate knowledge of the failings of the public education system. Restoring the Promise documents how college education falls short of what it should be, and our society desperately needs it to be. College is expensive, and fast becoming even more so, yet it fails either to prepare students for living in a liberal society or to provide them the tools they need for employment and personal responsibility. This book is the culmination of decades of reflection, argument, and deep examination of the problems we face. This is the right book, at the right time, while there still is time to rescue the next generation.”
Michael C. Munger, Professor of Political Science, Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program, Duke University

“No one is better equipped to analyze the crisis of American higher education than Richard Vedder. And analyze it he does in Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America. Tuition is exploding, campus bureaucracies are ballooning, infantilizing ideas like ‘micro aggressions’ are spreading and metastasizing, and evidence that students aren’t learning much during their four to however many years on campus is accumulating. Vedder methodically exposes these and many other afflictions of the modern university. Anyone interested in understanding what has gone wrong in higher education and how to fix it should read this book.”
Joshua Dunn, Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for the Study of Government and the Individual, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

“Richard Vedder is a provocative, iconoclastic voice when it comes to American higher education. He has long been willing to ask hard questions and speak hard truths about our nation's colleges and universities. His new volume Restoring the Promise is a welcome addition to the national conversation.”
Frederick M. Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute

Restoring the Promise makes a compelling case about what’s causing much of the dysfunction in our higher education system. Professor Vedder suggests potential fixes for these problems—some of which would be very difficult politically, but all of which are directly targeted at fixing the problems he so effectively presents. With higher education having skyrocketed in cost while often declining in quality and value, colleges and policymakers would do well to experiment with Vedder’s recommendations before the growing crisis of trust and confidence in academia reaches levels that are impossible to ignore.”
Robert L. Shibley, Executive Director, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education; author, Twisting Title IX

“Throw out your volumes from the Carnegie Commission, relegate William Bowen and Derek Bok to lower shelves. With Restoring the Promise, Richard Vedder, a true expert on the subject, has given us in one book the facts and analysis we’ve long needed on all matters higher educational. Is too much indoctrination by college professors going on? Is the slogan ‘college for all’ encouraging student-loan delinquency? Are colleges using monopoly power to charge too much tuition? Are administrators building bureaucratic empires? Are there all too many university employees who do not contribute to student learning? The answers are in this truly excellent book.”
Williamson M. Evers, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development

“In his book Restoring the Promise, Richard Vedder pinpoints the issue plaguing higher education early on, identifying the ‘precarious position’ of higher education as the outgrowth of government—particularly federal—intervention in the sector. That intervention has fueled pernicious regulations and a student loan debt crisis that, cumulatively, exceeds aggregate credit card debt. Moreover, his provocative suggestion that higher education as currently structured ‘may exacerbate income inequalities rather than reduce it’ will no doubt spur a critical conversation about the efficacy of the American college system moving forward. Fifty-four years of university teaching have made Dr. Vedder uniquely situated to diagnose the many problems plaguing higher education. Restoring the Promise is a must-read for anyone interested in how to address the $1.5 trillion question, improve university efficiency and effectiveness, and who generally appreciates the good-natured wit and insight of Richard Vedder.”
Lindsey M. Burke, Director and Will Skillman Fellow in Education Policy; Center for Education Policy; Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity; Heritage Foundation

“Most people would agree that American higher education is an important institution in our society that faces numerous challenges that threaten its very existence. In his new and comprehensive critical study of higher education, Restoring the Promise, Richard Vedder outlines a triple crisis, ‘high costs, little learning, and uncertain employment prospects for graduation.’ As the Founding Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, Vedder has supported his analysis with numerous charts and graphs, mostly drawn from governmental studies and reports, that show the effects of out-of-control tuition rates, grade inflation, and administrators who focus on political correctness, sports and luxury residence halls more than the measurement of learning, graduation rates, and post-graduate employment. While constructively criticizing many practices within colleges and universities, Vedder notes that ‘a large part of higher education’s problems relate to the role that government plays.’ He concludes this comprehensive work by offering a set of broad, long-run, and radical solutions to move academe back to a consumer-funded model that would remove much of the rationale for outside oversight. Among the many recent books on higher education, Vedder’s is the most comprehensive, coming from a scholar with more than five decades of experience. I highly recommend it to legislators, policymakers, academics, administrators, business leaders, parents, students, and anyone else with a stake in the future of America’s higher education institutions.”
C. Ronald Kimberling, former Assistant Secretary of Education for Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education; former President, Argosy University, Chicago Campus; former Executive Director, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation

“Richard Vedder paints a stark picture of the modern university in his new book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America. Vedder laments the rising cost of attending college, the falling standards, increased government regulation, and a de-emphasis on teaching. Vedder is an expert at diagnosing many of the problems within the research university.”
The Federalist

“Education, especially the nature and quality of today's education from kindergarten through college, will have a profound impact on this nation and its future direction, for the children of today will be our future leaders of tomorrow. . . . higher education, once the envy of the world, is now suffering a crisis of confidence and a loss of purpose. . . . reinforced and brilliantly expanded upon by Richard K. Vedder. . . . his newest book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America examines the nature of and solutions to such issues as tuition and other costs; public funding and governance; curricula; free speech and academic freedom; political correctness; due process; admissions; student loans; and much more. Vedder’s suggested reform agenda is equally comprehensive as he urges ending discrimination against for-profit schools; ending grade inflation; ending speech codes and other barriers to academic freedom; ending affirmative action and related diversity programs; ending or revising federal student financial aid; instituting three-year degrees and year-round instruction; and providing earnings data on former students for extended periods after graduation.”
Illinois Review

“In Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Vedder notes that American higher education is increasingly in trouble. Universities are facing an uncertain and unsettling future with free speech suppression, out-of-control Federal student aid programs, soaring administrative costs, and intercollegiate athletics mired in corruption. . . . Vedder explores these issues and exposes the federal government's role in contributing to them. With up-to-date discussions of the most recent developments on university campuses, Restoring the Promise is the most comprehensive assessment of universities in recent years. As informed and informative as it is thoughtful and thought-provoking, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America is an extraordinary and timely contribution to our on-going national discussion about reforms so increasingly necessary to our educational systems and policies if America is to retain its competitive edge in our increasingly interconnected and competitive global economies. An exceptionally well organized and presented study, Restoring the Promise is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Contemporary Educational Issues collections and supplemental studies curriculum lists. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, education activists, governmental policy makers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Restoring the Promise is also available in a digital book format.”
Midwest Book Review

“Richard Vedder has just written a new book entitled Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America that is a must-read for everyone who is interested in this important topic. In plain English (as opposed to muddy academic jargon), he explains that higher education is, for the most part, failing to live up to its promise, why that is the case, and what can be done to put things right. . . . One of the main tasks of economists is to trace the unintended consequences of laws and regulations that change the natural order of things, and Vedder proceeds to show that well-intentioned interventions, led by federal student aid, are at the root of our problems. . . . Vedder sees federal higher education subsidies as the root of our numerous maladies. . . . Vedder is optimistic that we will restore the promise of higher education. That’s because he’s optimistic about the power of good, new ideas and institutions to displace old, ineffective ones. We will find better ways of teaching and certifying that students are competent, and we will adopt better models of financing postsecondary education than federal grants and loans. America is a ‘can do’ nation that has repeatedly shown its capacity for surmounting challenges. We love competition and innovation. That’s what it will take to make our higher education system one that the rest of the world would really envy. There is a small mountain of books analyzing our higher education system. If that’s one of your concerns, place Restoring the Promise at the peak.”
George C. Leef, Director of Editorial Content, James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

“When I picked up this book by Richard Vedder, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, I generally knew what to expect because I had read much of his work in op/eds and essays over the years. But upon digging into it, I was struck by its comprehensive treatment and well-researched analysis of the wide range of problems facing higher education in America and how much sense he makes about what to do about them. Here is a hint of the prime culprit from the introduction to the chapter on governance: ‘There is a remarkable consensus among many observers of higher education that the system of governance is broken....almost every contemporary issue facing higher education is impeded and frustrated by a hundred year old system of governing practices that desperately needs modification.” Truly, this is an industry in need of a considerable dose of ‘creative destruction’ and, as Jason Riley wrote, ‘Vedder has spent decades warning that this will not end well. If you want to understand how higher education came to this crisis and how it can be fixed, start with this book’.”
Education News

Restoring the Promise explores the maladies of contemporary higher education, focusing on the price of tuition, learning outcomes, and underemployment. Looks at the goals of a college education and sources of funding for higher education and research. Documents the rise in college cost over time. Assesses the quality of instruction at American universities. Reflects on underemployment among college graduates. Chronicles the history of higher education in the United States. Presents explanations for rising tuition fees. Investigates the use of endowments. Examines the federal student financial assistance debt crisis. Analyzes spending, the number of employees in higher education. Addresses the growth in university bureaucracies and their commercialization. Delves into universities’ accounting, maintenance, use of buildings, and debt. Studies the cost of intercollegiate athletics. Evaluates university research. Details insights into accreditation and systemic issues. Researches affirmative action, intellectual diversity, and free speech. Explains weaknesses in current university governance. Presents a case for the use of information, incentives, and innovation in university reform. Considers government higher education policy. Describes paths toward higher education reform.”
Journal of Economic Literature

“Richard Vedder’s Restoring the Promise, a sequel to his 2004 book Going Broke by Degree, documents the decline of American higher education—a decline that is likely to generate not only larger numbers of poorly-served students and more wasted taxpayer dollars, but the shuttering of some hallowed institutions. Drawing on a career’s worth of research in this field, Vedder shows how the key problems facing higher education—including high cost, deteriorating learning, and mission drift—are traceable to increased government intrusion into education. . . . Vedder’s exposure of the giant financial boondoggle that is higher education is one of the best features of Restoring the Promise. . . . Vedder wraps up Restoring the Promise with some suggestions for changes in higher education that might reduce costs while increasing effectiveness. Among these: ending or revising federal student financial aid; increasing faculty teaching loads; instituting year-round instruction, possibly coupled with internships; ending governmental discrimination against for-profit schools; reevaluating tenure; imposing maximum average GPAs for state universities; eliminating colleges of education; ending speech codes; and requiring a core curriculum that covers the basics of civics and culture. These are excellent ideas . . . . Restoring the Promise is essential reading for those trying to wrap their heads around the many serious problems in America’s ivory towers. Colleges and universities can be saved from their politicized sclerosis, and Vedder’s engaging and thoughtful analysis shows us how.”
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

“Richard Vedder is such a giant in education and economics . . . his new book Restoring the Promise which catalogues the failure of higher education in America. . . . In his outstanding book Restoring the Promise, he details many complex programs necessary to get us back on track. However, he also lists a number of simple and logical changes that are easily understood and accomplished. They include, reducing university bureaucracies, increasing faculty teaching loads, incentivizing better utilization of space, instituting three year degrees and year round instruction, ending discrimination against for-profit schools, reevaluating academic tenure, ending grade inflation, eliminating colleges of education, ending speech codes and other barriers to academic freedom, requiring a coherent core curriculum that incorporates civic and cultural literacy and ending affirmative actions and related diversity programs as they currently exist. It would be hard for most of us to argue against these common sense changes which would make our college systems more relevant, more productive and less expensive.”
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“The Potted Plants of Higher Education” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Mon., Mar. 11, 2024
“Why is it so hard for low-income students to apply to college?” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in The Boston Globe Wed., Feb. 14, 2024
“Sports Madness Reveals Itself Again Very Soon” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Thu., Feb. 8, 2024
“The Decline in American Universities, 2011-2024” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Wed., Jan. 24, 2024
“Critics say public universities are spending too much outside the classroom” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise quoted in the New Hampshire Bulletin Mon., Jan. 22, 2024
“It’s Time to Tax the Universities” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Mon., Jan. 22, 2024
“Higher education would benefit from lower subsidies” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in Canada’s Financial Post Wed., Jan. 17, 2024
“Bill would nix $100 million in tax cuts for NYU, Columbia” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in The College Fix Tue., Jan. 16, 2024
“A Conversation with Economist and Historian Richard Vedder (Part 1 of 2)” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise interviewed on The Giving Review Thu., Jan. 11, 2024
“A Conversation with Economist and Historian Richard Vedder (Part 2 of 2)” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise interviewed on The Giving Review Thu., Jan. 11, 2024
“The Department of Education Needs to Die” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise, Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Wed., Jan. 3, 2024
“Harvard Should Pay Its Fair Share” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal Sat., Dec. 23, 2023
“GOP calls to strip Harvard of billions in federal cash, tax breaks over ‘antisemitism shame’” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise quoted in the New York Post Thu., Dec. 14, 2023
“The Anti-Woke Collegiate Counterrevolution Is Just Beginning” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Wed., Dec. 13, 2023
“Administrative Bloat Makes Colleges Worse” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Thu., Dec. 7, 2023
“The Real World Confronts the Ivory Tower” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Nov. 29, 2023
“Collegiate Fiscal Insanity in Texas” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Wed., Nov. 29, 2023
“Time to Amend the Constitution” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Thu., Nov. 23, 2023
“The Bell Tolls for Woke Humanities Professors” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Wed., Nov. 8, 2023
“Reversing America’s Decline” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Sun., Nov. 5, 2023
“The Need for Adult Supervision of Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Mon., Oct. 30, 2023
“Should every child get a trophy?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in The Tidewater News Mon., Oct. 23, 2023
“Free Speech? Not on College Campuses.” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Wed., Oct. 18, 2023
“Bread and Circuses, Then and Now: America Mimics Rome’s Decline” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Fri., Oct. 6, 2023
“Princeton Offers a Tuition Break” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise quoted in The Wall Street Journal Tue., Sep. 26, 2023
“For Whom Does the Ball Roll?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Sat., Sep. 16, 2023
“The Root of Higher Education’s Excess Can Be Found in... Silicon Valley?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in Forbes Fri., Aug. 25, 2023
“The Ne Plus Ultra of Collegiate Wokeness” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri., Aug. 25, 2023
“Combatting Academic Hucksters in the Sciences” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Wed., Aug. 16, 2023
“Affirmative Action Ruling May Save American Colleges” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Thu., Aug. 3, 2023
“Does College Accreditation Work?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri., Jul. 28, 2023
“University Innovation in the Buckeye State?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Tue., Jul. 18, 2023
“Universities: The Public and the Rule of Law Be Damned” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Tue., Jul. 11, 2023
“The Decline (and Fall?) of College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri., Jun. 30, 2023
“University of Pennsylvania Versus Amy Wax” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Thu., Jun. 29, 2023
“Higher Education Needs Some Creative Destruction” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Thu., Jun. 15, 2023
“Biden’s College Loan Write-offs Are Unfair, Irresponsible—and Illegal” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in the New York Post Fri., May. 26, 2023
“A Campus Outrage that We Should Not Let Pass. Why Shouldn’t Ohio Northern University Lose Its Accreditation?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise, Letter to the Editor in The Wall Street Journal Thu., May. 25, 2023
“A Collegiate Renaissance?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri., May. 19, 2023
“You’ll Never Woke Alone” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The American Spectator Sun., Apr. 30, 2023
“Professors Feel the Impact of Higher Education’s Collapse” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Wed., Apr. 12, 2023
“Why Worry? 8 reasons to worry about higher education’s future.” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited on Inside Higher Ed Wed., Apr. 5, 2023
“Higher Education and the Law of Diminishing Returns” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri., Mar. 31, 2023
“Muzzling Free Expression on Campus Causes Self-Censorship” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Mon., Mar. 27, 2023
“Who Owns the University?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America. Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal Fri., Mar. 17, 2023
“The Collegiate War on Excellence and Descent into Mediocrity” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Mon., Feb. 13, 2023
“When the College of Last Resort Is A Resort” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in Forbes Fri., Feb. 3, 2023
“Ownership, Control, and Reform: Market-Based Approaches to Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Tue., Jan. 31, 2023
“Higher Education, Skyrocketing Tuitions, & the Student Debt Crisis” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise interviewed on The Learning Curve podcast Wed., Jan. 11, 2023
“Administrative Bloat Suffocates Higher Ed” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited on Newsmax.com Mon., Jan. 9, 2023
“More Employees than Students at Stanford: Give Each Student a Concierge!” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Thu., Jan. 5, 2023
“When Putin Turned His Back on Reaganomics” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Wed., Jan. 4, 2023
“Wanted: A Successful Collegiate Rent-Seeker” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Dec. 28, 2022
“The Most Selfish Generation” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator Sun., Dec. 11, 2022
“Yes, an Academic Free-Speech Conference Needed Protection from the Mob” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri., Nov. 25, 2022
“Michael Bloomberg Has Become the Advocate that Higher Education Needs the Most” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The Hill Wed., Nov. 2, 2022
“Colleges: Go Back to Basics” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Oct. 26, 2022
“Collegiate Complicity in the Erosion of American Identity” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Thu., Oct. 13, 2022
“Higher Education Used to Love Controversy” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Sep. 28, 2022
“Why Not Just Cancel the U.S. Debt?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America mentioned in The Gadsden Times (AL) Sat., Sep. 10, 2022
“Higher Education Can Rediscover Its Purpose” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America mentioned in The Wall Street Journal Wed., Sep. 7, 2022
“Student-Loan Forgiveness Raises a Question About College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The Wall Street Journal Tue., Sep. 6, 2022
“Bidenomics: Student Debt Amnesty Could Cost $1 Trillion” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited on the Daily Wire Sat., Aug. 27, 2022
“‘Dark Brandon’ Is Learning How Political Twitter Works, Meme by Meme by Meme” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise quoted in Clarence Page’s column in the Chicago Tribune and other syndicated newspapers Fri., Aug. 26, 2022
“Inflation Will Hit Universities Hard” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri., Aug. 26, 2022
Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder’s Op-Ed “Student Loan Handout—Illegal, Inflationary, Immoral, Inequitable and More” mentioned on Kudlow on Fox Business Network Thu., Aug. 25, 2022
“Student Loan Handout—Illegal, Inflationary, Immoral, Inequitable and More” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed on FoxBusiness.com Thu., Aug. 25, 2022
“Can the U.S. Become Exceptional Again?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal Fri., Aug. 19, 2022
“The Folly of Forgiving Student Loans” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America appears on the Rory Sauter radio show Mon., Aug. 8, 2022
“One of Our Few Great College Presidents Retires” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Jul. 27, 2022
“Don’t Forgive Student Loans” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on the Bryan McClain show on TNT radio Thu., Jul. 21, 2022
“Don’t Forgive Student Loans” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America appears on the Gary Nolan radio show Fri., Jul. 8, 2022
“In Princeton’s Contempt for Justice, Shades of Duke Lacrosse” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Mon., Jun. 27, 2022
“Four Reasons Biden’s Student Loans ‘Forgiveness’ Plan is Wrong” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed on FoxBusiness.com Fri., Jun. 17, 2022
“University of California Suicide Watch” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The American Spectator Fri., Apr. 29, 2022
“The Very Model of a Modern University President” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Mar. 16, 2022
“The Commencement Address that Can Never Be Delivered” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in Commentary Mon., Feb. 14, 2022
“A Farewell Assessment: Higher Education after Six Decades” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 27, 2021
“Can the Federal Student Loan Program Be Reformed?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Dec. 22, 2021
“Improving Access or Lowering Standards? Abolishing the SAT” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Dec. 14, 2021
“Making Colleges Work Again: Lessons from Adam Smith” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 6, 2021
“Naughty College Administrators Go to Jail in Pennsylvania” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Dec. 2, 2021
“University of Florida: From Football School to Academic Powerhouse” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 29, 2021
“D.C. Conformity Vs. Institutional Diversity: College Of The Ozarks” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 22, 2021
“A Declining Industry? The Growing Financial Risks of Attending College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 15, 2021
“Are Colleges Causing National Decline? Should We Tax Them?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 8, 2021
“Will the Decade-Long Decline in College Enrollments Continue?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 1, 2021
“Yale and The University of Texas: Who Owns the University?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 25, 2021
“Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: New Criticisms and Challenges” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 18, 2021
“Could College Exit Exams Restore Confidence in Higher Ed?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri., Oct. 15, 2021
“Eight No Cost Federal Collegiate Reforms Improving Access and Learning” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 11, 2021
“Should Low Earnings Degrees Be Eliminated? Gillen’s Data and More” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 4, 2021
“Men fall behind women, and that’s a problem” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in The Times (UK) Thu., Sep. 30, 2021
“Early ADHD Diagnoses and the Decline of Men in College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in Letter to Editor in The Wall Street Journal Fri., Sep. 24, 2021
“Riches and Rankings: Washington U’s Soaring Endowment” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Sep. 23, 2021
“Debt Ceiling and Government Spending” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise interviewed on Steve Bannon’s War Room Pandemic podcast (starts at 6:04) Tue., Sep. 21, 2021
“Why Men Are Disappearing on Campus” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America and Braden Colegrove, Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal Mon., Sep. 20, 2021
Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder is reviewed in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Sat., Sep. 18, 2021
“Free College? Who Needs the Feds? Markets Will Provide” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 13, 2021
“A Short History of the Forbes Top Colleges List” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Sep. 8, 2021
“College Presidential Pay Makes No Sense: Little Relation to Excellence” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Sep. 8, 2021
“Federal Higher Education Policy and the Law of Demand” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Fri., Sep. 3, 2021
“More Death is Needed in Higher Ed: Bring on More Creative Destruction” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 30, 2021
“Learning by Doing: Earn A Degree While Working A Job” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 23, 2021
“Solving the Federal Student Loan Fiasco” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 16, 2021
“The Case for a College Exit Exam” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America featured in The Wall Street Journal Fri., Aug. 13, 2021
“Progressivism Surges Through America’s Law Schools” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited on The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Aug. 11, 2021
Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder is reviewed in The Quarterly Review of Austrian Economics Wed., Aug. 11, 2021
“Repurposing Deserted Academic Villages—Sell Student Housing?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 9, 2021
“Colleges Abandon the Basics” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on The Optimistic Curmudgeon podcast Sun., Aug. 8, 2021
“Due Process for Accused College Students—Getting Better or Worse?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in National Review Fri., Aug. 6, 2021
“Profiles in Campus Leadership: Charles J. Ping, R.I.P.” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 2, 2021
“Due Process on Campus: Is It Improving or Declining?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 26, 2021
“The Bad Old Days Are Back! 228 Collegiate Earmarks by Congress” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Jul. 22, 2021
“Is Bigger Better in Higher Ed? Or Even Cheaper?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 19, 2021
“Higher Ed: Unindicted Conspirator in the Demise of Our Civilization?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 12, 2021
“University retrenchments by the faculty book and beyond it” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in University World News Sat., Jul. 10, 2021
“Markets Work, Even in Higher Ed: Three Recent Examples” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 5, 2021
“The Real Problem with Critical Race Theory” Amy L. Wax and Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Newsweek Fri., Jul. 2, 2021
“Are University-Run Medical Centers the Tail Wagging the Dog?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Jun. 29, 2021
“Goodbye to Joe College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in JoanneJacobs.com Tue., Jun. 29, 2021
“Optimal Welcomes Distinguished Higher Education Change Advocate, Dr. Richard Vedder, as a Board Advisor” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise mentioned in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and several other news outlets Mon., Jun. 28, 2021
“What has happened to colleges and universities?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The Tidewater News (VA) Mon., Jun. 28, 2021
Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America mentioned in The Virginia Pilot Letter to the Editor Mon., Jun. 28, 2021
“The Impact of the Coming Economic Downturn on Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 21, 2021
“Why Do Colleges Dislike Men? The Disappearing Collegiate Male” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 14, 2021
“Should We Tax Rather than Subsidize Yale?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 7, 2021
“The Culture of Arrogance Breeds Decline: Why Colleges Are Dying” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Jun. 1, 2021
“Universities Have No ‘Bottom Line’” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 24, 2021
“A Collegiate GED: The Time Is Now” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 17, 2021
“Publish or Perish Can Become Publish AND Perish” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 10, 2021
“Falling College Academic Standards: New Evidence” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., May. 6, 2021
“Higher Ed and the Biden Agenda: Be Prepared to Become Disappointed” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 3, 2021
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Purdue, Howard, and the U of Texas” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 26, 2021
“For-Profit Higher Ed’s Renaissance: The Case of Coursera” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 19, 2021
“Being ‘Woke’ Means Going Broke for Mills College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 12, 2021
“Will the Exploitation of College Athletes Decline Soon?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 5, 2021
“Happy Days Are Almost Here Again, but for How Long?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Apr. 1, 2021
“Collegiate Sanity or Insanity? Oregon and Oregon State” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 29, 2021
“Gen Z is paying double what boomers paid for college—and the gap will only widen in the future” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in Business Insider Tue., Mar. 23, 2021
“Colleges Short of Cash: Sell the Campus?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 22, 2021
“A Star Is Born!!! The Academic Freedom Alliance” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 15, 2021
“How Much Should the Feds Bail Out the Colleges?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 8, 2021
“The Edifice Complex Is a Threat to University Budgets” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri., Mar. 5, 2021
“Tenure ensures freedom of ideas in college classrooms” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The McDonough County Voice Wed., Mar. 3, 2021
“Three Covid-19 Collegiate Predictions Gone Wrong” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 1, 2021
“Why Haven’t More Colleges Closed?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in The Chronicle of Higher Education Mon., Mar. 1, 2021
“Biden: ‘Forgive Us Some of Your Debts, but Not All of Them’” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 22, 2021
“Is Santa Clara U. Better than Princeton? Earnings Data Say ‘Yes’” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Feb. 16, 2021
“Aspirations and Reality: Why Do So Few Achieve Their College Goals?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 8, 2021
“Universities and the Decline of American Civilization” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Feb. 4, 2021
“The Flight of the Covid Quacks” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care mentioned in American Institute for Economic Research Tue., Feb. 2, 2021
“Should College Application Be Required for a High School Diploma?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 1, 2021
“The Higher Education Origins of the Biden Administration” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 25, 2021
“Student Loan Forgiveness Would Be Windfall for Dentists, Doctors and Lawyers” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America co-authored Op-Ed in The Hill Sat., Jan. 23, 2021
“Howard prof, Biden’s pick to lead DOJ ‘Civil Rights Division,’ said Black people are ‘superior’ to Whites” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder quoted on Campus Reform Tue., Jan. 19, 2021
“Should Universities Make Policy Pronouncements?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 18, 2021
“Migrants Flee States with Highly Educated People: Why?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 11, 2021
“Betsy DeVos’s Higher Ed Legacy” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Jan. 7, 2021
“The Shark Tank Approach to Financing a College Education” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 4, 2021
“Brother, Can You Spare $120 Billion? Colleges: $23 Billion Isn’t Enough” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 28, 2020
“The Flight to Quality in Colleges Grows: Harvard Applications Up 57%” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 21, 2020
“Charley Pride on Affirmative Action: Was He Right?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Dec. 17, 2020
“Will the Real Princeton and Case Western Reserve Please Stand Up?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 14, 2020
“Student Loan Losses Would Decline if Schools Had Skin in the Game” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 7, 2020
“Federal Student Loans: A $435 Billion Miscalculation?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 30, 2020
“In the Covid Era: Is American Military U. Better than Harvard?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 23, 2020
“Memo to Universities: The Public Dislikes Collegiate Racial Preferences” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 16, 2020
“Memo to Joe Biden: There Is NO ‘Free’ College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 9, 2020
“A new age of segregation” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in the Nevada Appeal Wed., Nov. 4, 2020
“Past Recessions Led More Kansans to Community Colleges, but Not This Time” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited on KMUW.org Wed., Nov. 4, 2020
“Biden and Trump: ‘Higher Education: What’s That?’” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 2, 2020
“College Excellence Does Not Bring Happiness” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 26, 2020
“Like Free Speech? Don’t Send Your Kid to DePauw, Texas or LSU” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 19, 2020
“The Academic Taliban Are Winning! Can They Be Stopped?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 12, 2020
“How to Dramatically Cut College Costs While Increasing Learning” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 5, 2020
“There Is NO Public “Disinvestment” in College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Oct. 1, 2020
“Coronavirus Enrollment Effects: Small but Consequential” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 28, 2020
“Why Do Republicans Send Their Kids to College?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 21, 2020
“Federal Student Aid Was a Bad Idea” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in National Review Fri., Sep. 18, 2020
“Eliminate or Radically Restructure Federal Student Loans” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed on The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Sep. 16, 2020
“A New ‘Georgia Tech’ Arrives Tomorrow: It Looks Promising” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 14, 2020
“Forgiving Federal Student Loans Is a Horrible Idea” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Sep. 10, 2020
“Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Collegiate Entrepreneurs” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Sep. 8, 2020
“College Towns Feel Financial Impact of Pandemic” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America quoted in Ohio Valley Resource Tue., Sep. 8, 2020
“As colleges confront COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter, endowments deserve scrutiny” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America quoted on NBCNews.com Tue., Sep. 1, 2020
“2025: Google U. Vs. Microsoft U.?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 31, 2020
“Why Isn’t Tuition Lower if Most College Classes Are Online? Good Question.” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America quote in Money Tue., Aug. 25, 2020
“Should Racial Information Even Be Collected for College Admissions?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 24, 2020
“Ohio University’s Identity Crisis Shows the Struggles of Regional Public Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder quoted on NBCNews.com Thu., Aug. 20, 2020
“Chaos on Campus” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 17, 2020
“How Not to Defend Elite Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder cited in The Chronicle of Higher Education Tue., Aug. 11, 2020
“Want Income Equality? More for Vocational Ed, Less for Colleges” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 10, 2020
“Who Is Ruining Our Universities? Administrators!” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 3, 2020
“Colleges: ‘The Public Be Damned’” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 27, 2020
Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on WIND Radio’s The Dan Proft Show (Chicago) Wed., Jul. 22, 2020
“The Great College Depression Begins: Three Ohio Tales” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 20, 2020
“Evictions have returned to pre-pandemic levels in places where local bans have expired, Cleveland Fed research find” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in Crain’s Cleveland Business Mon., Jul. 20, 2020
Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder reviewed in Teachers College Record Tue., Jul. 14, 2020
“Renewed Sanity on Campus? Yes to Free Speech, No to Football?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 13, 2020
“UNC president-elect’s performance pay could set national example” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The Laurinburg Exchange Tue., Jul. 7, 2020
“Are American Universities Losing Their Lead in Scientific Research?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Sun., Jul. 5, 2020
“Harvard, Yale and Princeton Embarrass, but Cornell Shines” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Jul. 2, 2020
“Will More Unemployment Increase Fall College Enrollments?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 29, 2020
“The Decline of the American University” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Jun. 23, 2020
“Are College Professors Less Supportive of Black Students?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Jun. 17, 2020
“The American University and the End of the Enlightenment” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed on MindingTheCampus.org Wed., Jun. 17, 2020
“Is a Law School Meltdown Coming?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 8, 2020
“Why Pay $200,000 for a Piece of Paper?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 1, 2020
“Is the University of California Committing Suicide? Equity vs. Excellence” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., May. 26, 2020
“Colleges on Life Support Face Three Choices: Death, Merge or Survive” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 18, 2020
“Cuts at Ohio University Need to Protect Academic Mission says Economist Vedder” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise appears on WOUB radio Fri., May. 15, 2020
“After 40 Bad Years, the Department of Education Redeems Itself a Bit” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 11, 2020
“Fraud, Survival, and Innovation: The Era of Financial Crisis and COVID-19” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., May. 7, 2020
“Six Ways to Keep American Universities Alive” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 4, 2020
“Economists explain why US college students won’t be getting big refunds on spring tuition” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise quoted on Quartz Wed., Apr. 29, 2020
“Purdue’s Smart Approach to COVID-19: Planning for Fall” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 27, 2020
“Is Big-Time College Football Dying?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 20, 2020
“Tenure Is Dying” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 13, 2020
“Call It a Ponzi Scheme: Even during the Covid-19 crisis, colleges abuse their economic and reputational privileges.” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in City Journal Fri., Apr. 10, 2020
“Why the Coronavirus Will Kill 500-1,000 Colleges” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Apr. 7, 2020
“Problems in Higher Education Today” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise appears on the Carolina Journal Radio show Mon., Apr. 6, 2020
“Getting a quality higher education online: From novelty to indispensable necessity” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in The Jakarta Post Thu., Apr. 2, 2020
“Make American Colleges Grade Again!” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Apr. 1, 2020
“How Governments (and the Fed) Make Life Harder for Young Families” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited on Mises.org Sat., Mar. 28, 2020
“A New Great Depression for Higher Education?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Mar. 24, 2020
“COVID-19: Is It Academic Armageddon?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 16, 2020
“The Novel Coronavirus Can Kill Colleges as well as People” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Mar. 10, 2020
“The Flight to Quality in College Admissions” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 9, 2020
“American Higher Education: Beset with Problems, but Solutions Exist” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise transcript of remarks given at The Martin Center for Academic Renewal in North Carolina on January 30, 2020 Wed., Mar. 4, 2020
“Should We Tax English Majors but Subsidize Engineers?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 2, 2020
“On Collegiate Death and Dying” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 24, 2020
“Are University Policy Experts Good for Society?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Feb. 20, 2020
“Trump vs. Democrats on Higher Education” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 17, 2020
“University Trustees Are Often Clueless: Does It Matter?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 10, 2020
“Do Universities Kindle Entrepreneurship?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise mentioned on National Review Online Wed., Feb. 5, 2020
“The Myth of the Entrepreneurial University” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise mentioned in the The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Feb. 5, 2020
“iPhones Are Not Accredited, So Why Are Colleges?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 3, 2020
“Professor Richard Vedder explores ‘Restoring the Promise’ of higher education” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise interviewed on Carolina Journal Video Thu., Jan. 30, 2020
“Clayton M. Christensen, R.I.P.” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Jan. 28, 2020
“For Many, a College Degree is a Bad Investment” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 27, 2020
“The golden age of the administrator is upon us” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise mentioned in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News Tue., Jan. 21, 2020
“Following the Money: A look into power and justice in higher education funding.” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in The Waltonian Tue., Jan. 21, 2020
“Student Debt and Higher Education” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise mentioned on The Daily Signal Mon., Jan. 20, 2020
“Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor, Comes to Campus” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 20, 2020
“Calm before the Storm: Fiscal Hell Is Coming to American Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 13, 2020
“The Collegiate Conservative Counter-Revolution” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 6, 2020
“The Collegiate War Against Men” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Jan. 2, 2020
“New Data proves What’s Actually Causing the Spike in College Tuition Rates” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in the Washington Examiner Fri., Dec. 27, 2019
“For Taxpayers, College Football Remains a Guilty Pleasure at Christmastime” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in the Daily Signal Mon., Dec. 23, 2019
Claremont Review of Books review of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder posted on Manhattan Institute website Thu., Dec. 19, 2019
“Saying ‘No’ to College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Dec. 19, 2019
“Should the SAT Test Be Outlawed?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 16, 2019
“Expecting debt forgiveness, most students are not reducing their student loan balances ‘at all’” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited on The College Fix Mon., Dec. 16, 2019
Restoring the Promise by Richard Vedder Is Reviewed in the Claremont Review of Books Wed., Dec. 11, 2019
“New Research Shows Federal Student Aid Is Worse than We Thought” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed on James Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Dec. 11, 2019
“Students Love Their Professors but Not Academic Bureaucrats” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 9, 2019
“The Overhyped College Dropout ‘Scandal’” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri., Dec. 6, 2019
“DeVos’s Useful Reform in Federal Student Financial Aid” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Dec. 3, 2019
“The New College Scorecard Gets a C- on Its Report Card” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 2, 2019
“Does Collegiate Athletic Excellence Promote Academic Excellence?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 25, 2019
“Has Great Higher Education Reached Middle America?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Nov. 20, 2019
“Washington Voters Say No to Campus Racial Discrimination” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 18, 2019
“Should States Subsidize Universities?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 11, 2019
“Is ‘Diversity’ Destroying the HBCUs?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 4, 2019
“Rat poison at Alabama, and how to get rid of it” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in Tuscaloosa News Tue., Oct. 29, 2019
“The New Campus Deplorables” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Oct. 23, 2019
Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise appears on The Bob Murphy Show podcast Tue., Oct. 22, 2019
“Richard Vedder on America’s Short-changed Students” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise interviewed on Challenging Opinions podcast Mon., Oct. 21, 2019
“New Book Offers Solutions to the Failure(s) of Higher Education” Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder is reviewed by The Heartland Institute Fri., Oct. 18, 2019
“Why Do We Have Business or Education Schools in Universities?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Oct. 16, 2019
“Will the Courts Rein in Collegiate Race/Gender Pandering?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 14, 2019
“Behind the Network of Outside, Left-Wing Groups Pushing Racial Policies in Cities, Counties Across America” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited on The Daily Caller Tue., Oct. 8, 2019
“Do University Stores Rip Off Students?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 7, 2019
“Admissions Lawsuit: Harvard’s Ahead, but It’s Not Over” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Oct. 2, 2019
“Why Are There So Many Marginally Employed PhDs in English?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 30, 2019
“Higher Education is Failing America” Restoring the Promise by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder is reviewed on CFACT.org Sun., Sep. 29, 2019
“The New Campus Housing Bubble” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 23, 2019
“Florida Senator Scott Hints at New Education Bills During Capitol Hill Briefing” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The College Post Wed., Sep. 18, 2019
“Libertarian Think Tank Hosts Panel on Higher Education Act Renewal” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Wed., Sep. 18, 2019
“College Sports: Students Be Damned” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 16, 2019
“College/University Enrollments Go Down as Potential Students Question Value” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise interviewed on WOUB radio Wed., Sep. 11, 2019
“Administration within UW System grew while faculty numbers declined” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in Business North Wed., Sep. 11, 2019
“Prospects for Federal Higher Education Reform? Little in Short Run” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 9, 2019
“Is Majoring in English Worth It?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in The Wall Street Journal Mon., Sep. 9, 2019
“Can American Higher Education Be Restored?” Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder is reviewed by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Wed., Sep. 4, 2019
“What’s Gone Wrong with Our Higher Education System?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in National Review Wed., Sep. 4, 2019
“Intellectual Gerrymandering: ‘E Unum Pluribus’ on Campus” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Sep. 3, 2019
“Fixing Higher Education in America” Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder reviewed in Education News Sun., Sep. 1, 2019
“Majors Matter” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 26, 2019
“The University of Texas Belatedly Helps Poor Kids” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 19, 2019
Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder is reviewed in Midwest Book Review Thu., Aug. 15, 2019
“Colleges Don’t Want ‘Free College’” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 12, 2019
“Who Needs Harvard? Amazon University and Other Options” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 5, 2019
“Coding Academies and the Future of Higher Education” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Aug. 1, 2019
“Summer Madness Hits College Campuses” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Aug. 1, 2019
“University of Alaska Brouhaha: The Governor Has a Point” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 29, 2019
“Higher ed economist: ‘Universities increasingly lie and cheat’ because they get away with it” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The College Fix Wed., Jul. 24, 2019
“Universities as Rip-Offs: The Costly and Inefficient Edifice Complex” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 22, 2019
“Would You Buy a Used Car from a College President?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 15, 2019
“The Education Exchange: How Rising Costs Have Affected Higher Education” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on The Education Exchange an EducationNext Podcast Mon., Jul. 15, 2019
“The Unintended Consequences of Student Loan” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on Daily Signal podcast Thu., Jul. 11, 2019
Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on KHOW radio (CO) Tue., Jul. 9, 2019
“More Proof College is Often an Overpriced Job ‘Screening Device’” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited on The College Fix Mon., Jul. 8, 2019
“Is a College Degree Necessary? A Tale of Three Students” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 8, 2019
“Is A College Degree Necessary? A Tale of Three Students” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 8, 2019
“Betsy DeVos Is Right about Gainful Employment” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 1, 2019
Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder is reviewed in Illinois Review Fri., Jun. 28, 2019
“Why Bernie Sanders’ Higher Ed Plan Is A Terrible Idea” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Jun. 26, 2019
“Bernie Sander’s Student Loan Relief Plan” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise appears on POTUS Channel on SiriusXM (subscription required) Wed., Jun. 26, 2019
“Sanders’ Seductive Scholastic Socialistic Syllogisms” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Jun. 26, 2019
“‘Restoring the Promise’ Review: High Cost, Low Yield” Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder is reviewed in The Wall Street Journal subscription required Tue., Jun. 25, 2019
“Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Forgive College Loans” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on The David Webb Show on SiriusXM radio Patriot Channel (subscription required) Tue., Jun. 25, 2019
“Forgive College Loans?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise appears on the Lars Larson national radio show Mon., Jun. 24, 2019
“Tale of Two Worlds: The Real World and the Ivory Tower—Oberlin College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 24, 2019
Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise speaks at the Heartland Institute in Arlington Heights, IL June 19, 2019 Thu., Jun. 20, 2019
“The Problem in Higher Education and a Solution to Restoring Their Promise” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise interviewed on the Heartland Institute podcast Thu., Jun. 20, 2019
“Is Harvard an Embarassment? Part II: Kyle Kashuv and David Hogg” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., Jun. 19, 2019
“The Growth in Tuition Insurance” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 17, 2019
“Student government at university in wealthy SoCal county claims students are starving” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited on The College Fix Wed., Jun. 12, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his new Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at a luncheon event hosted by the Manhattan Institute in New York, NY. Tue., Jun. 11, 2019
“Decline of the M.B.A., Fall of the Humanities: What’s Left?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 10, 2019
“Respected Economist Expresses Concern about Growing Cost of College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited on Breitbart.com Sat., Jun. 8, 2019
“Student Loan Debt” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder appears on the Lars Larson radio show Fri., Jun. 7, 2019
“Taxpayers Shouldn’t Get Stuck with a $1.5 Trillion Loan Default Tab” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune syndicated newspapers Fri., Jun. 7, 2019
“How Congress Can Expand Americans’ Life-Starting Options Beyond College” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in The Federalist Fri., Jun. 7, 2019
“Let’s Privatize State Colleges” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Thu., Jun. 6, 2019
Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America speaks at the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, TX on June 4, 2019 Thu., Jun. 6, 2019
“Renowned Economist Offers More Than a Dozen Solutions for Fixing Higher Education” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed in The College Fix Tue., Jun. 4, 2019
“Are Universities Increasingly Liars and Con Artists?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 3, 2019
“Fixing Higher Education Starts with More Teaching and Less Research” Restoring the Promise by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder is reviewed on The Federalist Fri., May. 31, 2019
“College Conservatives Battle with the Suppression of Free Speech: 5 Outrageous Censorship Incidents” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise cited in Conservative Daily News Thu., May. 30, 2019
“Harvard Is an Embarrassment to American Higher Education” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., May. 28, 2019
“SAT’s Adversity Index: Academic Excellence or Socioeconomic Diversity?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., May. 23, 2019
“Institutions of Higher Education Are Taking It on the Chin Lately” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The Bluefield Daily Telegraph (WV) Tue., May. 21, 2019
“Memo to George Soros and Charles Koch: Fund Campus Debates” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 20, 2019
“Improving Higher Education in U.S.” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America appears on Washington Journal on C-SPAN Sat., May. 18, 2019
“How Free Is ‘Free College’?” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America quoted in The Christian Science Monitor Thu., May. 16, 2019
“Higher Education in America” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on The David Webb Show on SiriusXM radio Patriot Channel (subscription required) Thu., May. 16, 2019
“Front Row: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Vedder” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise appears on UNC-TV (NC) Tue., May. 14, 2019
“What’s the Res—Lazy Rivers, Federal Loans, and the Purposes of College: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Vedder” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise appears on What’s the Res? podcast Tue., May. 14, 2019
“Four Low Tech Ways to Lower Tuition Fees by 10 to 30%” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 13, 2019
Walter Williams favorably reviews the Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, by Independent Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, in his column for Creators Syndicate Mon., May. 13, 2019
“University Trustee of the Decade, My Texas Hero: Renegade Regent Wallace Hall” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 6, 2019
“The Higher and Higher Costs of Higher Education & What Is to be Done?” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on The John Batchelor Show Sat., May. 4, 2019
“Trade Schools over College” Sr. Fellow Richard K. Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on Made In America with Neal Asbury. Sat., May. 4, 2019
“If tuition keeps going up, this is how much college will cost in 20 years” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited on EducationViews.org Fri., May. 3, 2019
“Higher Education in America” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise appears on the Lars Larson radio show Thu., May. 2, 2019
“The Collegiate War Against Academic Excellence and Its Consequences” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Wed., May. 1, 2019
“Government Largely to Blame for Surging College Tuition?” Sr. Fellow Richard K. Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on Fox Business News’ Varney & Co. Wed., May. 1, 2019
“The Truth about the Big College Scam” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America appears on the Laura Ingraham Podcast Tue., Apr. 30, 2019
“Warren’s Free College Time Machine” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in editorial in The Wall Street Journal Wed., Apr. 24, 2019
“Senator Warren’s Worst Higher Education Proposal Ever Made” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Apr. 23, 2019
“Does Attending Elite Colleges Make You Happy? Lessons from the Admissions Scandal” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 22, 2019
“The Three Deficiencies of Higher Education” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Fri., Apr. 19, 2019
Senior Richard K. Vedder’s op-ed based on his Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promised: Higher Education in America, discussed in “Letters” at the Wall Street Journal Fri., Apr. 19, 2019
“Author Richard Vedder on the College Admissions Scandal” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America interviewed on WGN-TV Tue., Apr. 16, 2019
“Why Are Universities Losing Their Way?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 15, 2019
“College Wouldn’t Cost So Much if Students and Faculty Worked Harder” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal Thu., Apr. 11, 2019
“Why Do Progressives Support Elite Universities?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 8, 2019
“First Generation Universities, the New CCNY: Florida International” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 1, 2019
“The Triple College Crisis: Crisis #3. Too Few Good Jobs” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 25, 2019
“Suppressing Free Expression: Gonzaga and Rider Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Mar. 21, 2019
“Billion-Dollar ‘Amateurs’” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) Tue., Mar. 19, 2019
“Why College Admissions Isn’t Only about Academic Talent” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited on Bleeding Heart Liberarians Tue., Mar. 19, 2019
“The Triple College Crisis. Crisis #2: Too Little Learning” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 18, 2019
“Is College Worth the Money?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America appears on Deep Dive on FoxNation Fri., Mar. 15, 2019
“The Triple College Crisis. Crisis #1: College Is Too Costly” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Mar. 14, 2019
“College Admission Scandal” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America appears on the Lars Larson radio show Thu., Mar. 14, 2019
“Desperately Want into Yale? Use the Black Market—Hire an Academic Prostitute” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Mar. 12, 2019
“Let’s Transform Higher Education: Restoring the Promise” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 11, 2019
“Is Going to College Worth It? Some New Evidence” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Mar. 7, 2019
“Collegiate Free Speech and the Federal Government” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Mar. 4, 2019
“Is This Higher Education’s Golden Age, Gilded Age, or Beginning of a Gentle Decline?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 25, 2019
“One Clear Way to Stop College Accreditation Fraud” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in Minding the Campus Thu., Feb. 21, 2019
“Boys Will Be Boys—Except at Harvard” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 18, 2019
“Gallup Poll Shows Career College Alums Are Satisfied, Do Well” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 11, 2019
“Colleges and Income Mobility: Undermatched, Overmatched and More” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Feb. 4, 2019
“Alternatives to Traditional College: Two-Year Vocational Business Schools—Become a Court Reporter” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Fri., Feb. 1, 2019
“Boston’s Colleges Are Going Broke—and We May All Have to Pay” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in Boston Magazine Tue., Jan. 29, 2019
“Why It’s Time to End College Accreditation” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Minding the Campus Tue., Jan. 29, 2019
“Retreating from Dependence on Federal Student Loans” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 28, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard Vedder interviewed by Wall Street Journal editor Paul Gigot and Restoring the Promise cited on the Journal Editorial Report, Fox News Channel Sat., Jan. 26, 2019
“Is Sanity Breaking out in Washington—A Bipartisan Fix to FAFSA Complexity?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 21, 2019
Restoring the Promise cited and author Senior Fellow Richard Vedder quoted in “The High Cost of ‘Free’ College,” by Charlotte Hays (Independent Women’s Forum) Wed., Jan. 16, 2019
Restoring the Promise and author, Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, cited in Jason Riley’s column in the Wall Street Journal, “Think College Is Expensive? Wait Until It’s Free: Higher-education costs have risen every time student aid has been made more generous” Tue., Jan. 15, 2019
“Coastal Domination of Elite Higher Education and Progressive Politics: Are They Related?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 14, 2019
“Patent Battle: Washington U. in St. Louis 32, University of Wisconsin 0” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jan. 7, 2019
“Are University Presidents Paid Too Little or Too Much?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Jan. 3, 2019
“Needed: A Revival of For-Profit Higher Education” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 17, 2018
“The University of Illinois Insures Itself Against a Drop in Enrollment of Students from China” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Dec. 13, 2018
“Are Universities Truly ‘Liberal’ Or ‘Progressive’? Rhetoric and Reality” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 10, 2018
“The Academic Leisure Class: The Underutilization of College Resources” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Dec. 6, 2018
“It’s Location, Location and Location” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Dec. 3, 2018
“West Virginia Higher Education: Many Colleges but Little Learning or Income” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 26, 2018
“Doing Things Right: Betsy DeVos, Title IX and Due Process” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Fri., Nov. 16, 2018
“Racial Segregation on American Campuses: A Widespread Phenomenon” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Nov. 15, 2018
“Are Males Being Discriminated against on College Campuses?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 12, 2018
“The Law of Diminishing Returns: Much Academic Research Is Either Ignored or Fake” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Nov. 5, 2018
“Markets Work in Higher Education: Tuition Fees are Starting to Fall” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Sun., Oct. 28, 2018
“Harvard’s President, Lawrence Bacow, Is Wrong: The College Earnings Advantage Is Not Growing” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 22, 2018
“Tuition Innovations: Money Back Guarantees and ‘Free’ Tuition for Heavy Class Loads” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 8, 2018
“The Public’s View: End College Racial Preferences” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Oct. 1, 2018
“Let’s Make a Deal! New Approaches to Setting Tuition Fees” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 24, 2018
“Bullying for Dollars: American College Football” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 17, 2018
“Even Professors Increasingly Question Whether College Is for Everyone” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Sep. 10, 2018
“University of Akron: End Physics Majors but Become a Leader in Video Games” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Sep. 6, 2018
“Helping Make College Application Decisions: Private Admission Counselors” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Sep. 4, 2018
“Higher Education: Then (1965) and Now” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 27, 2018
“A Good Idea: More Job Earnings Data on the College Scorecard” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 20, 2018
“Weak Public Support for Universities Will Hurt Them Financially” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 13, 2018
“College Financial Viability: The View of Campus CFOs” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Aug. 6, 2018
“The Cost of Neglecting Our History” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Aug. 2, 2018
“Race and College Admissions: Harvard and Chicago” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Higher Education’s Triple Crisis: Too Costly, Too Little Learning, Too Few Good Jobs Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 30, 2018
“Diversity and Other Administrative Monstrosities: The Case of the University of Michigan” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 23, 2018
“Colorado State, Rutgers, Eastern Michigan University: Fiscal Insanity in College Sports” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 16, 2018
“$33,000 Academic Journal Articles that Almost No One Reads” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Jul. 12, 2018
“Victory for Academic Freedom in Wisconsin” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 9, 2018
“Why Enrollment Is Shrinking at Many American Colleges” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Jul. 5, 2018
“College Degrees by Examination: The National College Equivalence Test (NCEE)” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jul. 2, 2018
“Disability Accommodation on Campus: Some Unintended Consequences” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Jun. 26, 2018
“The Chinese Academic Connection: Benefits and Costs” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Jun. 19, 2018
“Why Are Universities in the Housing Business?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Jun. 14, 2018
“Privatizing Free Tuition Will Help Relieve Our Nation’s Fiscal Overreach” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 11, 2018
“Not All University Presidents Are Risk-Averse and Boring” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Jun. 7, 2018
“Needed: Drastic Reform (Elimination?) Of Accreditation” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Jun. 4, 2018
“Education Startup OnlineDegree.com Makes the First Year of College Tuition-Free” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., May. 29, 2018
“Why Is Public Support for State Universities Declining?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., May. 24, 2018
“Four Problems with Research in American Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., May. 17, 2018
“Learning by Earning: Why Student Investment Groups Are Better than Internships” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., May. 15, 2018
“‘Kill All The Administrators’ (Not Really)” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., May. 10, 2018
“Academic Freedom, Intellectual Diversity and the Charles Koch Foundation” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., May. 7, 2018
“Is Tenure Dying? Does It Matter?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., May. 3, 2018
“What Universities Need: More Skin In The Game” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 30, 2018
“What’s Missing from Condoleezza Rice’s Report on College Basketball” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Fri., Apr. 27, 2018
“Why Universities Run Like Medieval Manors” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Tue., Apr. 24, 2018
“Reforming Federal Student Financial Assistance: Income Share Agreements” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Apr. 19, 2018
“How Federal Subsidies Make Harvard More Expensive and Less Accessible” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Mon., Apr. 16, 2018
“The Case Against Free College Tuition” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes Thu., Apr. 12, 2018

Events

Past Events
Event Date
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his new Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at an event hosted by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal in Raleigh, NC. Mon., Jan. 20, 2020
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his new Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at the Fifth Annual Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA in West Palm Beach, FL. Fri., Dec. 20, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at an event hosted by the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship at Hillsdale College in Washington, DC. Thu., Nov. 21, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his new Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI. Wed., Sep. 25, 2019
“Realistic Solutions to Big College Problems: Overhauling the Higher Education Act” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America speaks at Capitol Hill Briefing, September 18, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Wed., Sep. 18, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his new Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, in Austin, TX, August 14-16. Wed., Aug. 14, 2019
Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America speaks at The Heartland Institute Wed., Jun. 19, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at an event hosted by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni in Washington, DC. Tue., Jun. 18, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks on “The Future of American Universities,” based on his new Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at an event hosted by the Athens Rotary Club of Athens, OH. Mon., Jun. 17, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his new Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at a luncheon event hosted by the Manhattan Institute in New York, NY. Tue., Jun. 11, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his new Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at an event hosted by the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, TX. Tue., Jun. 4, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his new Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, at a Luddy Debate League conference for high school debate teams hosted by the Calvin Coolidge Foundation in Raleigh, NC. Sat., May. 11, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks about his new Independent Institute book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America at a luncheon event hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. Tue., May. 7, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks at “Inequality” conference hosted by the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, MA. Thu., Apr. 25, 2019
“Putting the Ivory Tower Together Again” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America speaks at The Cato Institute Washington, D.C., February 12 Tue., Feb. 12, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America spoke at CEO Summit at the Career Education Colleges & Universities (CECU) in Las Vegas, NV from Nov. 13-14, 2018 Tue., Nov. 13, 2018

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