"In the hyper-competitive world of college admissions, transfer students have become the latest sought-after commodity, viewed as increasingly important to keep

"In the hyper-competitive world of college admissions, transfer students have become the latest sought-after commodity, viewed as increasingly important to keeping seats filled and diversifying the student body through their varied backgrounds." It was the superior treatment of university as a business at the cost of education that made me weary of post-secondary education here in The United States. I watched the shift happen at the turn of the century, especially at the university I attended in Philadelphia, PA. I am all for running anything (for profit or not) as a business to financially sustain and grow success and value, almost nothing is free, but I don't believe you do it at the expense of the true purpose--in this case: education. So, when I see things like this, it makes me even more disappointed and rehashes my thoughts on creating a co-op university not influenced by the "business of post-secondary education"; self-sustained and grown through the fruits of the student and faculty body labor by intertwining education and real world experience from beginning through the entirety of the curriculum. In other words, each program in the university is actually a business, creates product, sells product, etc. I could go on and on, but I think I have already been a little long in the tooth.