This post originally appeared on Capital & Main, a Pacific Standard partner site, as “Affluent Private Universities Are Tax Shelters for the Rich."
How are university students really faring in this environment of rising costs and diminishing opportunities? How do they feel about the future?
Paying for an education is already a difficult, if not impossible, task for many students. The republican tax bill won't provide any relief.
For many universities and colleges, both public and private, it’s their most embarrassing secret—paying educated professionals minimum wage salaries with no benefits.
Property value displaces tuition as a revenue stream for higher education.
The presidential campaign trail is littered with ideas for making college more affordable, but none of them address the potential game-changer of a wealth-based approach to financing an education.
A new study shows that sexual assaults reported under the Clery Act decline after government audits, suggesting drastic underreporting.
