Some scary statistics
Posted by gweiss, Mon Mar 05 16:00:00 UTC 2007
... in the Freep today, in an article about the rising costs of higher education. This sort of thing is of course not news in higher ed, but it's interesting to see it highlighted in the local paper. Snip:
A 2003 congressional report titled "The College Cost Crisis" found that 48% of eligible high school graduates in America said they can't afford to attend a four-year college or university.
And cost keeps 22% of eligible students from attending college at all, said the report, which was compiled by the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.