Colleges in Crisis
Rebecca Knight is a journalist in Boston who has written for The New York Times, Financial Times, and USA Today among other publications.
Many students returning to campus this weekend will find America's next financial crisis right in their classroom. Are bankruptcies looming?
Do Public Colleges Rip Off Students?
Charles Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. His habit of challenging authority, important in scientific work, can also be applied to the whole university, which he loves so much. He runs the website, UniversityProbe.org.
The California budget crisis helps illustrate how public universities now dump their research costs and bloated salaries on undergrad tuition, argues Berkeley's Charles Schwartz.
Best Value Colleges
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
How are families supposed to afford college tuition during the Great Recession? The Daily Beast's Kathleen Kingsbury presents North America's best value institutions of higher learning.
20 Colleges Worth the Price
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
With the economy tanking and lending down, who can afford tuition? From low prices to hefty scholarships to creative accounting, Kathleen Kingsbury ranks the schools with the highest marks in value.
Why Colleges Are Just Not That Into You
Zac Bissonnette is an editor with AOL Money & Finance and its new personal finance site WalletPOP.com. He is a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The charade in which schools solicit more applications than they need-just to improve their selectivity ratings-isn't just underhanded, it's cruel.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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