Slackers: One of Higher Education’s Dirty Secrets
“Low four-year graduation rates are one of higher education’s dirty secrets,” points out the Washington Post’s Daniel de Vise.
It’s especially bad at colleges located in pleasant places to live.
And the University of Texas at Austin is going to do something about it. One step they’re taking is to enforce a “slacker” rule that would increase tuition for students who don’t graduate even after they’ve earned enough credits.
Thoughts? Should the University of Hawaii consider a similar “slacker” rule? Only 15 percent of Manoa campus students graduate within the normal four-year time period, after all.
