Elite universities, including Yale and Harvard, are experiencing grade inflation, suggesting a shift in focus from academic rigor to student experience. This trend may exacerbate economic inequality and diminish the value of a bachelor's degree. The American belief in 'college for all' is waning due to student debt, underemployment, and political intolerance on campuses, leading to a decline in public confidence in higher education. The financial crisis in higher education is not being adequately addressed, and there are emerging concerns about the college value proposition and the need for a course correction.
The American belief in “college for all” is collapsing in the face of student debt, diminishing return on investment and the frustration of 40 million college dropouts, writes Douglas Belkin. https://t.co/6WTdNPzur4 via @WSJ
More Americans not feeling the value of a college education: “That consensus is now collapsing in the face of massive student debt, underemployed degree-holders and political intolerance on campus.” https://t.co/ZRFbgweJ3h
The American belief in “college for all” is collapsing in the face of student debt, diminishing return on investment and the frustration of 40 million college dropouts, writes Douglas Belkin https://t.co/FetVWrdwx1 https://t.co/FetVWrdwx1
“Scotland’s tuition fees policy is now little more than an opportunity for the SNP to luxuriate in its precious principles – and, as always, to differentiate Scotland from England – while denying opportunity to Scotland’s youth.” 🖊️ @chrisdeerin https://t.co/iGh5brQ6vO
Emerging cracks in the college value proposition—coupled with several worrying national trends—suggest that American higher education may need much more of a course correction than it does any further amplification. @MBeienburg from the archives: https://t.co/NHLJAl1RTj
Telling op-ed here from @robertshrimsley on how politics is failing Britain’s universities. Both parties are in denial about the importance and the scale of the financial crisis in higher education. Such deep problems that are not being tackled. https://t.co/ozDBhfVaO9
🧵We are witnessing a sea change in public opinion re: higher education that goes deeper than recent declines in public confidence. In this context, Christian college leaders must engage three major trends that bear directly on institutional survival. 1/ https://t.co/1TLzyqNKPY
The school reform fad fizzled out among billionaires in the 2010s. It was replaced not by realism but by racism: The Great Awokening assumes racial disparities result not from bureaucratic incompetence to be remedied but from white evilness to be avenged. https://t.co/HI1M78wFrx
Grade inflation exacerbates economic inequality. A bachelors degree used to signal smarts & conscientiousness, but no more. If one needs a masters or PhD to signal these traits, it means more years outside of the workforce, more years not earning. https://t.co/mYX3JPaoga
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be useful as a measure ... Though what does it tell us that Harvard does not have to maintain grading discipline in order to maintain a reputation for excellence? https://t.co/jrODzzPcbW
I am increasingly forming the opinion that the grade inflation being seen at many elite universities, including at Yale, is another reflection of the way universities have become alienated from their core mission. The focus is on student experience rather than on student… https://t.co/G7aLzR0QeT