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College tuition is rising at three times the inflation rate, but only one dollar in five is spent on instruction. The rest goes for bloated administrative salaries and multi-million dollar buildings like student centers and gourmet food courts that have little to do with education.
Meanwhile, in an effort to retain as many student customers as possible, party school colleges have ignored their mission to educate students and replaced it with dumbed-down classes, inflated grades and standards so low that nearly everyone gets an A or a B, even if they fail all the tests.
Don't spend your life savings and risk your children's future paying for a very expensive five-year vacation that leaves two thirds of graduates unable to understand a newspaper editorial.
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Some Revealing Statistics About Today's Colleges:
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Craig Brandon is the winner of a first place award in investigative reporting from the Education Writers Association. He spent 20 years as a journalist in Upstate New York before taking a job as a journalism teacher at a small public college in New England. During his 12 years there he noticed that arriving students were increasingly less prepared for class work and increasingly resistant to learning... College teachers from across the nation shared with him their concerns and research about anti-intellectual students who came to college not to learn anything, but to participate in the five-year party of non-stop drinking and socializing. The real problem was an out-of-control and dysfunctional higher education system that was run like a business and that no longer cared if students learned anything or not. The Five-Year Party is the result of five years of research unraveling the mystery of why third and fourth tier subprime party schools have become so dysfunctional. His conclusion is that major reforms are necessary or we will fail to teach an entire generation of young people. The final chapters help parents determine which schools are party schools and include recommendations for the reforms necessary to restore rigor to these colleges' programs and put education ahead of entertainment in their missions. Read and comment on Craig's Party Schools Exposed Blog "Higher education has become a corrupt institution facing financial crisis." -- Cary Nelson, president of the National Council of the American Association of University Professors. "Students can pass courses and even earn high grades without truly understanding the material or how to apply it to problems different from those covered in class." --" Derek Bok, former president of Harvard. "To the extent that our skills are the foundation of our economic dominance, that foundation is eroding in front of our eyes, but we have been very slow to see it." -- National Center on Education and the Economy 2007. "(Millennial college students) went (to college) expecting good grades but were not expecting to work very hard to get them and apparently didn't care much what they learned." -- Barrett Seaman, author of "Binge." |
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The figures above are for all college students, including Harvard and MIT. Imagine what the numbers are like at the very bottom levels of higher education!
