Jenna Robinson: The Higher-Education Arms Race
Fergus Hodgson, 6 March 2017 
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University tuition rates across the United States have ballooned in recent decades, but that has been to pay for more administrative staff, not more tenured faculty. As campuses offer bells and whistles, parents and prospective students are growing skeptical of conventional higher education, and Jenna Robinson tells us why.
She holds a doctorate in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she is the president of the Martin Center for Academic Renewal. Specifically, she addresses the thorny question of a bubble in higher education, and whether the deflation has already begun.
Jenna Robinson addresses the John Locke Foundation on the evolution of higher education in North Carolina. (@AcademicRenewal)
Recommended Links
- “Bigger’s Better? In Higher Ed’s Amenities Arms Race, Bigger’s Just Bigger!” by Jenna Robinson, Martin Center for Academic Renewal.
- “The Academic Job Market Is Tottering, But Nobody’s Telling Graduate Students” by Jenna Robinson, Martin Center for Academic Renewal.
- “Actually, You Can Discharge Student Debts and the Feds Want to Make It Easier” by George Leef, Martin Center for Academic Renewal.
- “Is the Ivory Tower for You?” by Fergus Hodgson, Stateless Man.
- Scaling the Ivory Tower: The Pursuit of an Academic Career (81 pages), published by the Institute for Humane Studies.
Fergus Hodgson (@FergHodgson) is an economic consultant and Gold Newsletter‘s roving editor.