CSNbbs

With another excellent column

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/original..._is_o.html

Hmm. I wonder if he's overvalued at his current employer.

That brings me to Jackson Toby's The Lowering of Higher Education in America: Why Financial Aid Should Be Based on Student Performance (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2010) which augments Murray's insights in two important ways. First, the federal financial aid system deserves much of the blame for the current disconnect between labor market realities and the supply of new college graduates. The fact that a Pell Grant recipient with a 2.1 grade point average studying physical education for five years gets the same aid and sometimes more as a 3.9 point GPA physics, engineering or economics student who finishes in four years has caused a disaster, augmenting such modern problems as grade inflation. Second, Toby points out that declining college admissions standards have contributed to the deterioration of the academic quality of our secondary schools, which do not have to teach much to get kids ready for universities.
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Interesting to tie federal financial aid in with GPA's.

Does Miami U still base your tuition costs on your major field of study?

I believe UVA is a state supported institution, but their College of Business is considered a PRIVATE institution.

I know the Citadel (and many state supported institutions in South Carolina) were given the opportunity to go private in the early 2000's and every single one of them declined the state's offer.

More on the subject

http://popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2450

Hey Torch, saw this today, and thought of you...


http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/...-Much-6590