George Leef on Whether we Need More College Grads, or Better Ones?
Does American economic strength dependson increasing the percentage of people who have college degrees? Or should our focus be on raising the level of instruction and achievement for those who show an interest in advanced academic studies?
Ramesh Ponnuru describes the Case Against College Education:
We may be close to maxing out on the first strategy. Our high college drop-out rate — 40% of kids who enroll in college don't get a degree within six years — may be a sign that we're trying to push too many people who aren't suited for college to enroll. It has been estimated that, in 2007, most people in their 20s who had college degrees were not in jobs that required them: another sign that we are pushing kids into college who will not get much out of it but debt.
Kevin Carey on how hard it is to lose accreditation.
Southeastern had lived for many years on the most distant margins of higher education, mired in obscurity, mediocrity, cronyism, and intermittent corruption. Students routinely dropped out and defaulted on their student loans while the small, nonselective school lurched from one financial crisis to another. Yet during all that time Southeastern enjoyed the goldest of gold approval seals: "regional" accreditation, the very same mark of quality granted to Ivy League universities
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