tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post6251847430878285211..comments2023-11-02T09:44:15.693-04:00Comments on The Center for College Affordability and Productivity: The Perfect Storm: a Coming Revolution?Center for College Affordability and Productivityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041956958538598371noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post-4287545296687783862010-11-03T21:26:03.456-04:002010-11-03T21:26:03.456-04:00This is a good list, but Item 7 fails to clearly i...This is a good list, but Item 7 fails to clearly identify the consequences of continuing expansion: accelerating credential inflation. <br /><br /><b>Many are laboring under the false delusion that shifting the median of educational attainment upwards will result in increased economic rewards.</b> This is, on its face, wrong because the underlying distribution of wealth and reward is left untouched by such a shift. <br /><br />Such expansionary policy only stimulates competition for advanced degrees at the same time that higher-end occupational slots are shrinking, exacerbating the lottery effect of higher education. <br /><br />What this will do -- including credential inflation along with the factors cited -- is widen social divisions and create more tension between the haves and the have-nots.<br /><br />Add to this list accreditors and the accrediting guild -- the moat that protects the Ivory Tower from outside reform pressures -- which are caught up in an impossible situation (i.e., having to protect the interests of their member institutions, and the interests of the public at the same time). Despite the recent attempts by the US Dept of Education to rehabilitate accreditors as federal agents for compliance and enforcement, such medieval institutions have been, and continue to be, wonderfully resistant to outside pressures to change. They will not be able to satisfactorily perform their new responsibilities because they have yet to perform the job given to them by Congress in 1992!Glen S. McGheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00558711814846199468noreply@blogger.com