The Daily Report Card: College Costs Rising & Law Grad Employment Falling

Kyle Stokes / StateImpact Indiana

Shafer Tower on the Ball State University campus.

Local Papers Explore College Costs & Debts – “Over just the past decade, the average tuition and fees of Indiana colleges alone have increased by more than 100 percent,” the Indiana Commission for Higher Ed told The Herald Bulletin. The Herald-Times has their own story behind a paywall here — they spoke to IU senior Kate Lavery, to whom we introduced you in April. Anderson Herald Bulletin / Bloomington Herald-Times

Employment of Recent Law Grads at an Ebb – Roughly two-thirds of law school grads hold jobs requiring a law degree. Economix

Mayors have mixed record leading public schools — Indiana Economic Digest — Indiana – “[Mayoral control has] proved in other cities to be the best way to spur bold changes in long-struggling schools. Opponents… say mayoral control is no panacea because the cities that have tried it still have huge problems.” Indianapolis Business Journal

The fiction fallacy – A national set of academic standards coming to Indiana and 44 other states will require students read far more non-fiction texts than they do now. That’s ruffled some feathers. Fordham’s Kathleen Porter-Magee attempts to soothe them. Flypaper