No, the 'College Bubble' Isn't Popping

The Atlantic ^ | 01/10/2014 | JORDAN WEISSMANN

[SeekAndFind]

When newspaper editors are in the mood to run a good old-fashioned screed about the collapsing value of college, they inevitably turn to Richard Vedder, an Ohio University economist who runs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. Vedder likes to argue that the financial return on a B.A. is falling, graduates are chronically underemployed, and that our profligate universities are in for a reckoning once everyone wises up and stops throwing their money away. (For what it's worth, I tend to disagree).

Today Vedder and one of his students, Christopher Denhart, have upped the ante a bit for The Wall Street Journal, where they've published an op-ed titled, "How the College Bubble Will Pop." The reckoning, they say, is already upon us, as total college enrollment has fallen 1.5 percent since 2012.

"What's causing the decline?" they ask. "While changing demographics—specifically, a birth dearth in the mid-1990s—accounts for some of the shift, robust foreign enrollment offsets that lack. The answer is simple: The benefits of a degree are declining while costs rise."

It's an alluring theory. But their evidence falls apart under even the lightest inspection.

[glorgau]

The 5 stages of grief:

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance.

They seem to have just gotten to Denial

[gr8eman]

Maybe he was stuck on the GWB...classic!

[pepsi_junkie]

The ones I read were written by literate people, unlike reader comments one sees on the Breitbart articles, many of them written by people who couldn’t write a sentence—much less a paragraph—without misspelled words and other examples of improper grammar.

I no. It's tough to except all the terrble mistakes people make on the internet. I'm something of a gramar cop myself and makes me sad.

[Uncle Chip]

To compensate for the decline in college attendance the states are stepping up their instate tuition discounts to illegal aliens.

[MrEdd]

Like the real estate bubble didn’t exist, and wasn’t going to pop.

[OldPossum]

Then, you understand that poor communication skills get in the way of the message.

My point, and I do have one, is that one’s message is diminished by poor writing. For one thing, the reader may have a difficult time understanding what the writer is trying to convey. Also, the reader may think the writer is somewhat stupid and/or ill-educated and is therefore unimpressed by his or her thoughts.

[Mears]

” I’m something of a GRAMAR cop myself and makes me sad.

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I’m a spelling cop.:-)

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[pepsi_junkie]

yuo caught me. I wont make any more speling or gramar mistakes ever again, I promis.