Category: Universities
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The 50 college majors that guarantee decades of debt and disappointment.
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Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy and require universities to underwrite loans
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How elite education creates high-achieving but risk-averse students who struggle to think for themselves.
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Like ghost kitchens that exist only on delivery apps, these nonprofits exist only on college applications.
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This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F’ing up the status quo and fixing education. In the grand theater of American higher education, few performances are as anticipated—or as controversial—as the annual unveiling of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Like a high-stakes beauty pageant for academia,…
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This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F’ing up the status quo and fixing education. Here’s a puzzle: how do you create a trillion-dollar debt bubble that can’t be popped? Answer: make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Now, here’s a trickier one: how do you fix this mess when…
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As we build The School of Entrepreneuring, we are always looking to learn from innovative schools (like this one). I stumbled upon another one recently which I had to highlight. In the video below, Guido Sarducci breaks down his idea for The 5 Minute University where you’d get a diploma for $20. In just 5…
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Henry Rowan was an MIT grad who decided MIT didn’t need more money. Absolute legend.
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Grade inflation is the worst, most cancerous type of inflation in the USA right now.