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A spokesman for the University of Minnesota — which took issue with its ranking in the Institute for Policy Studies’s report on administrative pay — pointed out this announcement this morning: IPS Statement on low-wage faculty findings: Due to questions about information we gathered from the American Federation of Teachers Higher Ed Data Center website, we…
Young Adults, Student Debt and Economic Well-Being An analysis of the most recent Survey of Consumer Finances finds that households headed by a young, college-educated adult without any student debt obligations have about seven times the typical net worth ($64,700) of households headed by a young, college-educated adult with student debt ($8,700). (Pew Research Center)…
Other nations are noticing that the people of the United States and science aren't on good terms. In a scathing article in Maclean's, writer Jonathan Gatehouse asks if the most powerful nation on Earth has lost its mind?
How should the U.S. improve college graduation rates?
“When you look at the national statistics on college graduation rates, there are two big trends that stand out right away. The first is that there are a whole lot of students who make it to college — who show up on campus and enroll in classes — but never get their degrees. More than…
University of Minnesota criticized for bloated adminstration spending
The U of M is among five public universities whose administrative spending has most outpaced spending on students and faculty, concludes the Institute for Policy Studies. University officials call the report "extremely flawed" and "misleading."
U’s response to national report on admin pay
Having been named among the “Top 5 Most Unequal Public Universities” by the Institute for Policy Studies on Sunday, the University of Minnesota says the institute’s report — The One Percent at State U — is “outright wrong” and based on “inaccurate data” and a flawed methodology. Here is the U’s updated response from this…
Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of part-time adjunct faculty grew far faster than at the average state university from 2005 to 2012, according to a new study by the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning Washington…