Advice from Higher Education Leaders
The economic crisis is posing big challenges to community colleges, public and private universities and is making paying for college a difficult task for the students that want to attend. We talk with a group of experts to figure out how students, administrators and policy makers can confront the challenges facing higher education.
We interviewed Margaret Miller, a professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Virginia and editor-in-chief of Change magazine, Molly Corbett Broad, President of the American Council on Education and Paul E. Lingenfelter, President of the National Association of State Higher Education Executives.
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“Don’t make Community College free”
Erin Nederbo is a fiction writer and freshman at Columbia College Chicago.
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“Lower college costs”
Milina Bryan is a Graduating Senior at Validus Preparatory Academy in Bronx, New York.
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“It would be more useful if we focused on more college oriented tests”
Michael Martinez is a senior at Brackenridge High School in San Antonio, Texas.
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Cheaper higher ed & more career/tech ed in high school
I’ve worked as both a teacher and counselor (elementary and high school) and would advise a few things.
1) More career and technical education in middle/high schools: A large percentage of our students aren’t seeing the connection between the “core” subjects (especially math) and the world of work. In most schools, kids simply memorize enough of the material to earn a grade and pass to the next level, never truly grasping the important concepts–what a crime! Education should be exciting! Meeting kids where they’re at by speaking to their interests and tying learning into career and technical programs they might want to enter is one way to hold [Read more...]
