American Higher Education

CollegeXC1993
Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:00:23 +0000

With all of the fuss going on about student loan debt and the american crisis in education, can Americans still (or have they ever been able to) say that they have the best higher educational system in the world? What is wrong with American higher-ed and how can we fix it? What makes us better (or worse) than other systems? How do you define success in higher ed?

Should the goal of higher education be to send the most citizens to college (alluding to Obama’s goal that, “by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.”) If not, what should it be?

Perhaps of consideration are tuition costs vs career preparation, ability of different socioeconomic classes to get highered, etc.