There is an assumption the upfront cost of college is going to pay for itself throughout the lifetime of the student.
Hundreds of professors signed up to teach free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), each of them reaching tens of thousands of students from around the world, more than they ever would in a lifetime of teaching students face-to-face in classrooms on their campuses.
But it does mean that revenue per student will decline, and that colleges and universities will need to work a lot harder and be a lot more creative to capture the lifetime value of student-consumers.
Ms. Miller took Tori Sutherland, a recent college graduate with her, and together they wrote the following essay: NYT's Nick Kristof is offering the opportunity of a lifetime to students: a ten-day trip to learn about journalism and the harsh realities of our world from an expert who has seen it all.
Time to take responsibility #bbcqt April 10 , 2014Clive Peedell (@cpeedell) Neoliberal Britain: A lifetime of debt from student fees & huge mortgages.
In his manifesto "Cultural Literacy," he argues that to prepare for a lifetime of learning, a student needs a smattering of knowledge in a wide range of fields.
The temptation for a teenager with talent or good looks is to skip college, training and a lifetime of debt from student loans in favor of viral fame.
As Teitelbaum (2001) has argued and Seymour and Hewitt (1997) have demonstrated, science fares poorly--even worse than engineering--in career prospects, lifetime earnings, and quality of student and professional life relative to its competitors.
And after a lifetime of shoveling money toward student loans, and getting paid less than their male counterparts, women entering retirement could be looking at years of financial stability, even poverty.
In the lifetime of most of those students, whites will be a minority in the city and in the state.
