The Watchdogs of College Education Rarely Bite – WSJ

Accreditors keep hundreds of colleges with low graduation rates or high loan defaults alive.

Source: The Watchdogs of College Education Rarely Bite – WSJ

It’s worse than graduation rates.  I wrote.

The fish stinks from the head.  I know, I have taught at the head and the tail. The real stink comes more from not educating than it does from not graduating – and the smart people at universities know that well, but care little.

At the tail – a regional state “university” – I saw shockingly unqualified “professors”.

At the head – an “elite” private university – I saw, not only how education was degraded for the purpose of achieving happy “consumers”, but also how government national need grants could be used to fix that need – by producing unqualified  “professors” to teach at – guess  what?  (See the previous paragraph for the answer.)

I left higher education (I was a math professor.) to start a blog www.inside-higher-ed.com .  Only someone with inside knowledge of the opaque workings of universities can tell the real story.  Go to the non-commercial blog, to read posts and documents that tell what is happening.  We need to change this, for our economy, our society, and our kids.