Occupying SF

September 30, 2011 12:30 am 8 hours ago, we occupied the financial district of San Francisco, and marched past Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Bank of America, Chase, and the Fed’s West Coast outpost.  All the marching left me with some time to think, and the topic for this article is why we protest.  

Class Action Suit Against Law Schools

August 10, 2011 It’s a bad sign for a school when instead of receiving donations from graduates, they get served. A group of law school graduates have filed a class action lawsuit against their respective alma maters aleging fraudulent marketing practices.  The Thomas M. Cooley Law School and New York Law School are named as…

The Education Bubble

April 11, 2011 There’s a lot of talk about the next bubble.  Some say it’s tech, but they’d be wrong.  While a few companies will always go out of business, tech is taking off for very good reasons – there’s nothing “bubbly” about it. Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal, recently made a statement in Tech…

Another Influential Critic of Higher Education

February 8, 2011 Another critic of the education system speaks up, this time on the Utah state senate floor.  Sen. Howard Stephenson criticizes the Utah education system for not producing enough graduates in the hard sciences. “We are losing billions of dollars because students are realizing too late that they wish they had information they…