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The great credential race has turned universities into big business and fostered an environment where middle tier colleges can command elite universitylevel tuition while concealing staggeringly low graduation rates and churning out. Alison a sommers senior academic counselor university of louisville. Selingo is probably substantially correct in his assumption that without a conscious effort, the drift of change will be to deepen and ratify existing class stratification. The great credential race has turned universities into big business and fostered an environment where middletier colleges can command elite universitylevel tuition while concealing. Many christians find themselves struggling with a particular sin or dysfunc. So is the belief that higher education offers a ticket to a better life. Selingo cites numerous alarming statisticsonly 20 percent of students, for example, attend a fouryear college full timeand he discusses at length the question of the value of a college degree and the conflict between purely vocational aimseconomic gains and pursuing a major and career that bring personal satisfaction. Jeffrey selingo, the editoratlarge of the chronicle of higher education, like so many others recently, asks what is the value of a college degree. The big point that selingo makes is that where you go to college is less important than what you do at college. Anyone has any suggestions or know any websites that accepts them. Providence, ri 02905 about the training sponsor college unbound is a curricular initiative of nonprofit organizations big picture learning and the center for the transformation of higher education that integrates students own purposes and visions for learning with the needs of their. Jeffrey selingo, the former editor at large for the chronicle of higher education and author of the new book there is life after college, kickedoff the series with college unbound.
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