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Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a Forbes column headlined “The Case Against Free College Tuition.” Two highly contradictory happenings have occurred over the past year. On the one hand, published research increasingly suggests that the high returns on investments in higher education are minimally […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a Forbes column headlined “Why Colleges Need Major Creative Destruction.” Typically it takes about one-half the number of workers to produce any quantity of goods and services in the American business sector today as it did in 1980. As […]

U.S. News quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a Associated Press story headlined “Small Private Colleges Attracting Fewer Students.” The Boston Globe reports undergraduate enrollment trends at 118 four-year private colleges in the region show one out of five of those colleges have had […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in a Toledo Blade story headlined “Can the Olympic model fix the NCAA?” Change, even by NCAA president Mark Emmert’s admission, likely is coming to college sports. The question that academics, advocates for college athletes, and the players […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was a guest March 6 on “Air Talk” on 89.3KPCC radio on the topic “Should it be easier to wipe out student debt in bankruptcy?” “Last Thursday, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve questioned why struggling borrowers can’t discharge their student […]

The Ohio University Mock Trial team sent two teams to the American Mock Trial Association Regional Competition in Columbus the weekend of Feb. 10-11, with three students recognized for outstanding performance at the regional. The competition took place in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas. The 17 students were […]

From Research Communications Ohio University graduate students will test how well they can describe their research or creative work to the general public during the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. Seven College of Arts & Sciences students are participating in the semi-finals: Semi-final round – Tuesday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m. […]