Disturbing News



CNN reports:

But the breakdowns at some colleges, particularly along racial lines, are alarming. Of the 772 four-year schools with student bodies that are at least 5 percent black, nearly 40 percent graduated fewer than 30 percent of their black students. Sixty-eight schools, or nearly 10 percent, graduated under 10 percent.

This is clearly disturbing. (And Yale's refusal to sufficiently guarantee grants to low-income families instead of subjecting them to debt to fund education isn't helping.) The article recognizes that

the obstacles to degree completion often have little to do with students' college experience.



"Some of them have to go home and get a job to care for their families," she said.

Then why are administrators like this one:

He said the system wants to produce more prepared students, close a race gap, and simply make room for the hundreds of thousands of students the system must accommodate in the coming years.



"We need their seats," Meredith said. "We need to get them in, get them out, and get them to work."

seeking to adress the problem with formulaic bureaucratized taylorization of student's lives rather than a commitment to the kinds of structural change we need in colleges and universities as well as the communities in which they're situated to ensure that people aren't denied acces to education?





Effluvia:

I'm bemused If slightly baffled) by Evan's unexplained spaceballs reference. And i think Phoebe is ragging on me for being unemployed.