Thirty-six percent of students nationwide show little or no increase in their fundamental academic skills after four years invested in college.
And with greater misunderstanding usually comes heightened hostility. The new American Apartheid is upon us, courtesy of American education.
Professor Click was fired by the UM Board of Curators last Thursday. But it wasn't really the board that did her in. It was free markets — prospective students, their parents, donors, and alumni — expressing their displeasure with their checkbooks.
A recent Gallup nationwide poll, which asked respondents to choose among big government, big labor and big business, found that 69% of those surveyed identified big government as the 'biggest threat to America’s future.'
If you can somehow manage to go to school full time while holding down a job, there is less than a 15 percent chance that you’ll ever earn your degree.
A contemporaneous Pew study found that 57 percent of prospective students believe a college degree no longer carries a value worth the cost. Seventy-five percent of respondents deem college unaffordable.
Too many universities today do not 'challenge the norm.' They are the norm. And the elected representatives of the people are beginning to shout, 'Enough!'
A recent Gallup poll reveals that 61 percent of Americans report 'not very much' or no trust in the federal government's ability to solve domestic problems.
The recent rash of campus protests has caught the national eye, causing some to ask, 'What exactly are students taught in college today?' and 'What are senior university administrators doing to enforce—or not enforce—rigorous instruction, the instruction needed to ensure that American college graduates are able to survive in the intensely competitive, 21st-century world marketplace?'
The more nuanced truth regarding the relationship between funding and tuition is that there have been mild decreases in legislative funding that have been met by comparatively wild increases in university prices and spending.
Moody’s found that the percentage of schools suffering from three-year growth rates under 2% has quintupled, to 50%, in the last eight years.
The unabashed campus intolerance on display of late could turn out to be the jolt that was needed to restore intellectual freedom and, with it, rigorous education.