Inside Higher Ed – David Moltz
“In some circles, it’s practically sacrilegious to question the “completion agenda,” which was put front and center two years ago when President Obama laid out his goal of the United States having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by the end of the decade. But at a wide-ranging research conference sponsored here Tuesday by the American Enterprise Institute, one analyst with a long history of challenging orthodoxy in higher education policy making questioned not only the realism of the goal but also whether it aims for the right targets and will encourage institutional behavior that will help the country meet its work force needs.”(more)