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The value of your college degree is collapsing before your eyes

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By Richard Vedder
| Washington Examiner Verified
Now that a significant portion of America’s high school graduates are enrolled in college for the first time, it may be worth reviewing whether that’s a good thing. Many of these students think they are making a meaningful investment in their future. As they see it, as many of their parents do, a college degree will likely and significantly increase their lifetime income, enough to ensure they live middle-class, adult lifestyles complete with a relatively high degree of employment security.
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A 20 Percent Solution to a Much Bigger Problem — Minding The Campus

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By Richard Vedder
| Minding the Campus Verified
When Jared Gould told me that Congress has introduced legislation to limit participation by foreign nationals in U.S. intercollegiate athletics, my first thought was: what business is it of Congress? That legislative body in this century has never passed a balanced budget and occasionally even reaches impasses that shut down presumably important federal functions. Besides, shouldn’t education be predominantly a state and local government responsibility?
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An Award for Unpopular Truth — Minding The Campus

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By Richard Vedder
| Minding the Campus Verified
The powerful Woke Supremacy that has dominated American academic life in modern times has had many detrimental effects, but perhaps the greatest is that it has promoted academic self-censorship and even scholarly dishonesty, weakening American higher education’s ability to achieve its paramount goals: creating and disseminating knowledge.
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