The more students can borrow, the more colleges can rake in the dough.
And all this excess cash flowing into colleges has fueled a kind of academic arms race: schools flush with cash vying with each other to contruct the most lavish facilities and hire the most prestigious professors.
What does paying a sports coach a million dollars a year have to do with a kid getting a good education???
From my vantage point as a professor at a community college I can attest that 85% of our students should not be in college.
They don’t participate in classes, they don’t attend and they parachute into classes to take tests. Then at the end of the semester they want to know what they can do to improve their grades. I have a 33% pass rate and administration wants me to raise this to 50%. One colleague has a 25% pass rate. I’m not privy to other faculty data, but I’d say anecdotally that few faculty pass more than 50%.
Administration wants us to reach a 50% or better pass rate and the Governor of Georgia wants a higher proportion of students to graduate. No way, no how!