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To: decimon; Perdogg; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Halfmanhalfamazing.
...we think these critics are too quick to brush off scholars' concerns about the higher education industry. The often overheated tenor of debate on both ends of the higher-ed question may make it harder to carry out an honest accounting of an industry that already tends to shy away from transparency.
The problem is the same as it always has been -- some people get to go to the college or U of their choice based on parental connections and cash, wind up with degrees and but no smarter than when they were chaffeured to their freshman year dorm, and wind up doing very little in inconsequential jobs well suited to their abilities.

Substitute affirmative action and race norming for connections and cash, same thing applies.


5 posted on 06/18/2011 6:36:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: SunkenCiv

Y’all said it better’n me.


8 posted on 06/18/2011 7:04:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: SunkenCiv

All good points but I think there’s another and overriding problem of a higher education model that went out with Andy Hardy. And it’s government funding that creates the stasis.


9 posted on 06/18/2011 7:08:04 AM PDT by decimon
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