My thanks to Academic Impressions who sent out the above item and the interactive graphic below.
- Student debt at colleges and universities across the nation — NYT interactive graphic
- $70,000 in Student Loans or Making $100,000 as a Mechanic? The Vocational School Gets Cool — by Nell Wulfhart
- Learning that works –– from Time.com by Joe Klein
From DSC:
I am not posting these to put down liberal arts colleges/universities/programs. In fact, I went through a liberal arts program in college and I’m currently working at a liberal arts college. Rather, I’m posting them to say, “Houston, we have a problem.” And to then prompt us all to ask, “What are we going to do about it?”
Which reminds me again of a graphic I created a while back:
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Addendum on 5/15/12:
- Slowly, as student debt rises, colleges confront costs— from the NYT by Andrew Martin
E. Gordon Gee, the president of The Ohio State University, says that public colleges and universities need to devise a new business model to pay for the costs of education, beyond sticking students with higher tuition and greater debt.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a wood-paneled office lined with books, sports memorabilia and framed posters (including John Belushi in “Animal House”), E. Gordon Gee, the president of Ohio State University, keeps a framed quotation that reads, “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”