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Indeed. The university where I'm currently faculty views it's mandate as making college more accessible to the state's population and supporting first generatio
by Fomite 9y ago
Indeed. The university where I'm currently faculty views it's mandate as making college more accessible to the state's population and supporting first generation college students.
If they're going to be left holding the bag for that, they're going to stop.
And to address the poster who thinks we can blind universities to a potential student's financial background...we have a very good statistics and computer science departments, and a massive data set of all our students. We can probably come up with a classification scheme in short order, "blinding" or not. Hell, I'm pretty sure you could get pretty far just from "What high school did you go to?" and the classes you took there.
- calvinbhai 9y agonot sure where I mentioned it should be tied to the "student's financial background". In fact it can be irrelavant. By the time student graduates, parents can say 'you are on your own', and the debt is still dangling. The only deciding factor needs to be the outcome which is the employability or ability to make money to repay debts. If the Outcome Rating for a program at a university is high, it means lower risk, and the university is responsible only for, say 10% of unpaid debt. If the Outcome Rating for a program at a university is low, it means higher risk, and the university takes a much higher responsibility for ~ 50% of unpaid debt.
- Fomite 9y agoBecause the "Outcome Rating" of a program is not independent of financial status. For example, the use of Classics as a major for many people who go into banking as essentially a status signifier. That only applies to some classics majors.