Are public colleges forgetting the public?
Filed in archive by mstandaert on February 20, 2005
So says Stateline.org in this article.
A growing number of the nation's public colleges and universities are so worried about their financial bottom lines that they may be sacrificing their mission to educate students across the economic spectrum, a new report charges.
" Rather than focusing on providing a high-quality education to an ever-expanding share of the population, many academic leaders are chasing revenues, rankings and prestige,&lrquo; wrote Jamie Scurry, research associate at the Futures Project at Brown University.
A growing number of the nation's public colleges and universities are so worried about their financial bottom lines that they may be sacrificing their mission to educate students across the economic spectrum, a new report charges.
" Rather than focusing on providing a high-quality education to an ever-expanding share of the population, many academic leaders are chasing revenues, rankings and prestige,&lrquo; wrote Jamie Scurry, research associate at the Futures Project at Brown University.
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