As we approach 2020, the Martin Center suggests potential higher education reforms for the new year.
Jenna A. Robinson, President
More Colleges Experimenting with Income Share Agreements
Student debt poses a problem for many young people, especially those who are underemployed or unemployed after leaving college. A better alternative is Income Share Agreements (ISA). ISAs are contracts between students and their schools. The university pays for the student’s education and the student, after graduation, agrees to repay the university with a certain percentage of his or her income for a pre-determined number of years after graduation. …
… Jay Schalin, Director of Policy Analysis
Leaders Should Start to Lead
One thing I’d like to see for the New Year is for the University of North Carolina Board of Governors to grow a spine and become a serious force for reform. I’m not holding my breath on this one; the cluelessness exhibited by that body over the last year or so has been breath-taking.
This lack of awareness was on full display in the Silent Sam debacle, in which they tried to avoid criticism and please all the various factions when no such compromise position existed. …
… George Leef, Director of Research
How About a National Conversation on Diversity?
As president, Bill Clinton declared that America needed a “national conversation” on race. We never had much of a real conversation, however, but rather we suffered a one-sided, divisive harangue from progressives.
Although that “conversation” didn’t work out, we could use a true conversation in the coming year on the related subject of diversity.
