Turn The Higher Education Model Upside Down!
In the short term career with an option to acquire a degree by the solution to increase graduation rates and college debt in the U.S.
If you are the wave of recent articles on the bubble of college debt, and if the book “Higher education: How to waste universities our money and failing our children – - and this can be done” by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus will know you, there is something seriously wrong with our current model of higher education.
While most students begin college with the intention of completion in four years, statistics show that less than 50% actually do. Four-year graduation rates in New Jersey ranged from 90% as low as 6% [2008 data]. (Heybour, Kelly, The Star Ledger, January 30, 2011: “.. In NJ universities, students have less than 50 percent chance of completion in four years,” This situation is no different than in other states consider these facts for the United States: . four-year graduates are 54% higher (about a million more in professional life), on average, than those who have graduated yet or only a high school, but only a quarter of Americans 25-34 have a bachelor’s degree. Around half of the 3 million people who give the university in America to give up. The graduation rate of 50% is the rate of promotion 6 years, not four years. Continue Reading »
November 10, 2011
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