College Graduation Season – Who Finishes?
What’s all the ruckus about the high percentage of people who don’t begin but don’t graduate from college? Here’s the New York Times coverage of the numbers released the other day. There are lots of things going on in the coverage of the study, most of which are pretty predictable — debt, academic unreadiness, racial differentiation, etc. It may surprise some readers that the unit of measure is not 4 years but 6; that’s a trend that has been developing for a long time but has failed to enter the general consciousness. It would indeed be interesting to know what the schools more successful than their comparison groups (Binghamton vs. other SUNY schools, Miami University of Ohio vs. their comparison group) are doing. I can tell you what’s up with Georgia — they have a massive, gambling-funded tuition program that pays most of the tuition for any high school graduate with a certain average; it’s not working. The reason the Georgia program isn’t producing a vast crop of college graduates
