Student debt recently surpassed total credit card debt.Ā Payments can be delayed through graduate school enrollment; and the accrual of more debt. āMaking loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked toā¦
Students borrow too much.Ā Whatās worse, the institutions they borrow too much to attend, borrow too much.Ā A ferocious cycle is created: endlessly optimistic and apparently never satisfied. āDo not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; youā¦
Good universities take risks because they must change.Ā New ideas are risky business.Ā Risk and progress are siblings.Ā And donāt be fooled: Universities are serious businesses and many are on life-support. Ā Healthy institutions learn from exercised risk and mission focus.ā¦
(Spring Break) This column was originally published on March 26, 2010.Ā With modest modification here it is again. Too often we lose touch with the concept of locus of control, personal responsibility and accountability, and the power of individuals toā¦
Universities, to their demise, confuse what they think they can get away with, and what serves their true mission. Moreover, institutions seem to believe they can be known by something other than their actions.Ā Shortsightedness in spades. āValues are likeā¦
