In a time of punishing state budget cuts, one might think colleges would welcome billions of new federal dollars to help more students graduate. Yet the D.C. higher-education lobby gave the effort scant support, in large part because that lobby is dominated by rich and powerful universities that would rather leave dollars on the table than countenance any new federal involvement in higher education. Financially struggling institutions that actually educate significant numbers of low-income students were left in the cold. Fighting banks and corporations is easy politics for a Democratic president. Taking on beloved State U. will be a tougher nut to crack. But that’s what Obama must to do to build political will for needed reforms.

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by Kevin Carey, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Posted: September 25th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.