Richard K. Vedder

The Founding Father of this fount of worldly wisdom, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., has written a delightful new memoir (How…

College enrollments in the humanities have declined, even more than the general fall in the numbers attending college. West Virginia…

Writing in this space a few weeks ago, I argued that in several ways the United States is exhibiting characteristics…

Like many others, I have long sensed that the so-called best and most prestigious American universities were actually very poor…

For decades, I taught a course in European economic history that stressed the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath and spent…

Polling data confirm that Americans, in general, have a rather low opinion of their colleges and universities. They think they…

If recent reports are to be believed, academic crimes are on the rise. In a world with shrinking enrollments and…

The evidence is undisputable that American higher education is in trouble. Enrollments are down. Costs of educating students are much…

When one thinks of states that are blazing the way with innovative public policy solutions, conservatives and libertarians think of…

The collegiate brouhaha over the landmark Supreme Court decision striking down race-based affirmative action in college admissions has revealed the…