NOTES

CHAPTER 1

1. Mary Pilon, “Earnings Gap Between College and High School Grads Small,” The Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2010.

2. Paul Krugman, “Graduates Versus Oligarchs,” The New York Times, February 27, 2006.

3. Trends in College Pricing 2010, The College Board, www.thecollegeboard.org.

4. Mark Krantrowitz, “Ask Kanthro,” Fastweb. com, September 22, 2009.

5. Digest of Education Statistics 2009, “Table 331,” National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, nces.ed.gov.

CHAPTER 2

1. Alexander W. Astin, What Matters in College: Four Critical Years Revisited, page 388. Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, Calif.: 1993.

CHAPTER 3

1. Annual NACE Salary Survey, 2009 (19%) and 2010 (24%), nace.org.

2. Peter Coy, “The Lost ...

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