Higher Education is failing the nation

Higher education -- Remember young man, your first step in the REAL WORLD is just 8 feet ahead. Best of luck !!! ...item 2..Men and women both have different ways to get from A to B (2 May 2012) .. (Photo credit: marsmet471)

A Chronicle of Higher Education/Marketplace survey finds that half of employers queried had difficulty finding college graduates qualified for the jobs the firms needed to fill.  A third of those surveyed graded higher education fair to poor.

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Employment-Mismatch/137625/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en#id=overview

Universities exist because state governments either created them as public institutions on public lands, supported by public tax dollars.  Or they incorporated and licensed them as tax-free institutions that often received state aid.  All rely on federal tax dollars.

When the American people --- college students and college grads and their families --- carry a "mortgage" of $1 Trillion on their diplomas, higher education has failed its constituency and has failed the nation.

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