Most College Students Don’t Earn a Degree in 4 Years, Study Finds
Most College Students Don’t Earn a Degree in 4 Years, Study Finds:
National average has been five for a long time now.
Student debt now exceeds credit card and auto loan debt.
Student debt now exceeds credit card and auto loan debt.
“”UVA’s emphasis on honor is so pronounced that since 1998, 183 people have been expelled for…”
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“UVA’s emphasis on honor is so pronounced that since 1998, 183 people have been expelled for honor-code violations such as cheating on exams. And yet paradoxically, not a single student at UVA has ever been expelled for sexual assault.
“Think about it,” says Susan Russell, whose UVA daughter’s sexual-assault report helped trigger a previous federal investigation. “In what world do you get kicked out for cheating, but if you rape someone, you can stay?””
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– A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA.
“During Reagan’s two terms as president, dedicated funding for outright grants-in-aid decreased,…”
“During Reagan’s two terms as president, dedicated funding for outright grants-in-aid decreased, federal guidelines pushed individual loans, and private bill collectors were brought in to ensure that the hardest kind of debt to escape was whatever you took on for your education. Even more important was the shift in tone and expectation. Public goods became private services, and by the end of the 1980s, the anti-tax, infra-structure-starving, neoliberal Weltanschauung meant that as states cut their budgets, support for higher education was thrown into a cage match with every other necessary public good.”
