Frank Bruni speaks about the “College Identity Crisis”. He questions whether it is true or not that college is what determines one’s wealth in their future. Or whether or not it is even true that what is taught in the classroom is more valuable than what one can learn in the military or simply at home. What Frank Bruni found was in a way, shocking.
Time magazine recently did a survey and discovered that 62% of recent college graduates didn’t even know that, “congressional terms are two years in the House of Representatives and six years in the Senate.” That would mean that 62% of recent college graduates that partook in that survey, didn’t really understand how our government works. After looking at many other experiments and surveys, Michael Dannenberg stated, “Higher education policy needs to focus not just on access and affordability but also quality and success”. Although the affordability of a higher education is a big problem in the United States, success and the quality of the education is a big problem as well. Another huge problem is that people are deciding to not go to college any longer because the costs are so high and there are so few jobs available once you have your degree. What are students supposed to do if they are spending so much money on a higher education every year and then cant get a job when they graduate? How will they pay off their student loan debt? This is the reason why some people are trying to find other ways to get a job and not going to college. Supposedly Obama’s administration is trying to find a solution for the costs of colleges however, the quality of the education as well.
