Posted on 10/29/2010 11:08:35 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
The President’s favorite think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP) is so anxious to help the White House reach its goal of 60 percent of the population with college degrees that they are considering high school dropouts as likely targets for recruiters.
It should be noted that colleges are already trying to bring back their own dropouts to increase attendance at their institutions, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. U. S. Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter enunciated the 60 percent benchmark at a recent CAP meeting.
“Reaching a 60 percent attainment level is a challenging task, requiring an annual and repetitive increase in the number of college graduates,” a recent report from CAP notes. “In total, the nation will require an annual increase of roughly 278,000 graduates over each of the next 15 years to hit a 60 percent working-age college-degree attainment level by 2025.”
“Accounting for current rates of enrollment, the United States will produce an additional 112,000 graduates in each of the next 15 years, leaving an annual degree ‘gap’ of 166,000 postsecondary graduates. Generating the additional graduates necessary to reach the 60 percent goal will require a number of innovative steps and perhaps a radical departure from the status quo.”
“Nontraditional is the new normal,” a recent report from CAP notes. “If we seek to educate a greater proportion of our workforce we must recognize that we are not talking only about encouraging greater persistence and degree completion among traditional 18- to 22-year-old, full-time college students.”
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Most of the “Nontraditional” paths are better than some kid drinking away 4 yrs of mom & dad’s money anyway.
We are already sending way too many students to the university. It has degraded the standards in almost every major.
I attended two trade schools before I entered the hallowed halls of academia. I was a professor for twenty years. Now I’m going back to trade school to finish up my working life.
Horrible, horrible policy. Bad things happen when you start to get beyond 20 percent with degrees.
Why not just post it here?
Is there bad language? Porn? Satanism?
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