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Obama to Propose College Ratings System on Bus Tour
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 08/22/2013 8:56:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama to Propose College Ratings System on Bus Tour

By Colleen McCain Nelson

President Barack Obama on Thursday will announce proposals aimed at combating rising college costs by creating a new ratings system and eventually tying federal student aid to institutions’ performance.

The president will call for rating colleges before the 2015 school year on measures such as affordability and outcomes, including graduation and transfer rates.

Once that system is in place, Mr. Obama will ask Congress to allocate financial aid based on those ratings by 2018. Students at top-performing colleges could receive larger federal grants and more affordable student loans. The plan is expected to spur pushback from some colleges.

Mr. Obama also will urge innovation in higher education, encouraging colleges to pursue ideas including three-year accelerated degrees and massive open online courses. The president will return to some familiar ideas as well, calling for an expansion of his pay-as-you-earn program that caps student loan payments at 10% of monthly income and re-upping his funding requests for the Race to the Top program, which is focused on state higher education reforms.

The president will lay out his plan on a two-day bus tour that will wind through New York and into Pennsylvania. His first stop Thursday will take him to the University at Buffalo, with a speech planned later in the day in Syracuse.

The president’s college affordability plan is the latest in a wide-ranging series of proposals that the administration has dubbed “a better bargain for the middle class.”

Mr. Obama has said that making college affordable is a “personal mission,” as he’s pledged to shake up the current system. Tuition increases have far outpaced inflation in recent years.

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Obama to Propose College Crony Union Ratings System on Bus Tour.

There fixed it.

So explain how is it the new dean of Rutgers U get's paid 750K?

1 posted on 08/22/2013 8:56:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

So, are these buses built in Canada like on his last “tour”?


2 posted on 08/22/2013 8:57:47 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Puppage

Syracuse eh? Someone must have spelled it for him.


3 posted on 08/22/2013 8:59:14 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gee: I don’t see any way this could be abused./s/


4 posted on 08/22/2013 9:00:08 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hope some freepers bought the tickets for the speech today that were on craigslist.org. Could be fun.


5 posted on 08/22/2013 9:00:12 AM PDT by struggle
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To: massgopguy

BTW, the Princeton Review has been doing this for years.


6 posted on 08/22/2013 9:00:59 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sub-Driver

This will amount to nothing more than the same program he has for everything. Destroy it and in the process redistribute wealth to His people and screw over YT and the middle class.
Also all perversion will be glorified and all related to a Judeo-Christian heritage is to be mocked or outlawed.
What could go wrong?


7 posted on 08/22/2013 9:02:37 AM PDT by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: Sub-Driver

Let’s take a system we can’t control and introduce crony favoritism!

That’s the ticket!

Wonder how Hillsdale will rate?

Betcha colleges with fully inclusive coed dorm rooms and special facilities for transgenders will be at the top of the heap.


8 posted on 08/22/2013 9:03:04 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Sub-Driver

Perhaps Mr. Obama could release his college records so that we can see how those institutions graded the smartest man in the world.

I mean, he is the standard for all things, right?

/s


9 posted on 08/22/2013 9:03:09 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Endowed by their Creator,' not by men.)
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To: Puppage

Prevost— from Montreal, Quebec. An excellent platform, btw, but not US made.

The old MCIs were great.


10 posted on 08/22/2013 9:03:27 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Sub-Driver

I want to see his college records first.


11 posted on 08/22/2013 9:03:27 AM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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Once again, now that another industry or part of society is hooked on Federal Aid, it finds itself having to dance to manufactured, political “metrics” on performance to keep the dope coming.

Want to reduce college expenses? Cut all Government aid to students and universities.

They will need to cut-back, rationalize, and focus on their core mission just like every other industry


12 posted on 08/22/2013 9:03:34 AM PDT by PGR88
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Mr. Obama has said that making college affordable is a “personal mission,” as he’s pledged to shake up the current system

What has he done about this in the last 5 years? Nothing. Will be do anything that actually reduces the amount of money colleges extract from students? No.

Some mission.

13 posted on 08/22/2013 9:04:42 AM PDT by Ford4000
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To: Sub-Driver

Syria? Egypt? Unemployment? Federal Budget Crisis? Immigration? IRS? NSA Leaks?

There’s no problem too big to run away from, eh?


14 posted on 08/22/2013 9:04:50 AM PDT by Makana (Patience is minor despair dressed up as a virtue.)
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The plan is expected to spur pushback from some colleges.

How will this affect predominately black colleges?

15 posted on 08/22/2013 9:05:04 AM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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Now if we could get the prez’s institutional performance tied to true votes and the public’s desire to stop this socialism.

This new “rating” crap is a ploy to tie the academia even closer to the purse strings.... and of course.. the bs lies of .. him. Socialism writ large.


16 posted on 08/22/2013 9:05:54 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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17 posted on 08/22/2013 9:06:43 AM PDT by mirkwood
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Net result: Tuition rates will go up even faster.

It's just the way things work in the world that Obama has created for us.

18 posted on 08/22/2013 9:07:35 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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Maybe Obama can reuse Homeland's color-coded system for colleges. Most universities can start out as Orange and move to Green or Red as they donate to Democrats and hire union workers.

-PJ

19 posted on 08/22/2013 9:08:25 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: struggle

I live near buffalo

this is a great big nothingburger of an event

there are more press than people


20 posted on 08/22/2013 9:10:26 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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