[cripplecreek]

“So the federal policy began to make higher education more ‘accessible’

More accessible to a vast majority of students who have no business in college. They stumble around campus as they move from easy course to easy course like gender studies and Ethnic studies. Meanwhile the students who should be there are forced to struggle upstream against the students just putting in the time.

[Maceman]

they move from easy course to easy course like gender studies and Ethnic studies

I wouldn't think those courses would be easy at all.

I think sitting in those classrooms, doing the assigned projects and listening to those "professors" would be an excruciating experience.

In fact, I don't think I could do it for even one classroom session, let alone a whole semester.

I think I would have an easier time letting a tarantula lay eggs in my ear.

[kosciusko51]

More accessible to a vast majority of students who have no business in college.

And that is the rub with Fed Ed aid (actually, any Fed aid). The one who would benefit from it are competing with a much larger pool of applicants than necessary. I'm torn on the student loan issue, as I did benefit from it, but it was less than $10K (in the '80's), and I paid it off early...

Of course Reagan had this correct: “If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.”