How about this instead - work on improving the economy so that those that do graduate (on their own accord) can actually get a job that pays more than $15,000 a year?
A lot of college graduates end up flipping burgers. It just is not correct to say that everyone should go to college or that society benefits when everyone is highly educated. It’s not that simple.
The way to do this is to get gov't out of higher education. Obama's solution is to add more money to the pot. Wonderful.
“The administration goal is for every American to get at least a year of post-high-school education, and for the United States’ college graduation percentage to rank first in the world by 2020”
This is wonderful. Why not just issue every adult a diploma? Then we’d surely be “first in the world” with a college graduation percentage of 100 percent.
We need more people going to work, do apprenticeships and learning real skills not taking crap courses and piling up debt. It really is a scam.
Why not have mail in degree from Tic Toc Tech that will do them as much good as most are getting today. With this economy they will make the the best burger flippers and will only cost the postage.
For many high school graduates College represents the first time in their academic lives where they are allowed to fail. These incentives will change that.
This is such BS! College IS available to everyone, however one must work for it! I have kids this age, keg stands and beer pong! It has become like HS part 2 unless you really have a goal.
A program to further devalue college degrees, but consistent with many other changes in higher education of the past several decades.
No student’s education has ever been enhanced by money.