With the fall semester upon us, colleges and universities unveiled their plans for students—and many are just as quickly upending those plans.
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The United States has a problem: rapidly rising student debt. It also has a solution: online education. The primary reason for spiraling student debt is the soaring costs of a college education at a physical college. Online education strips away all of those expenses except for the cost of the professor's time and experience. It sounds perfect, an alignment of technology, social need and limited resources. So why do so many people believe that it is a deeply flawed solution?
Read moreWhy College is a Waste of Time: How Higher Education is Becoming Mass Education
Zachary Karabell is an American author, historian, money manager and economist.
Read moreWhat's College For?
Mr. Karabell talked about his 1998 book, What’s College For?: The Struggle to Define American Education, published by Harpercollins. The book describes his view that higher education has become radically democratized mass education. After his prepared remarks he took questions from the audience.
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