Elitism at the Department of Ed

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American Spectator:

Upon learning he and the rest the Omega Fraternity were being expelled from Faber College, John Belushi's character in the 1978 film Animal House elicited audience laughter with the line "Seven years of college down the drain!"

The fact of the matter is a sizable percentage of students in bachelor degree programs do not graduate in four years. According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, nearly 43% of students who enroll full-time in a 4-year bachelor degree program fail to graduate in six years. The graduation rate also varies by race and gender. The Ed Dept does not make available data break-down based on socio-economic status.
Notwithstanding this reality, the Department of Education is fixated only on career colleges. Unlike state-owned public institutions and private, not-for-profit colleges, career colleges operate on a for-profit basis. In addition to 2-year, 4-year, and master's degree programs, career colleges also include post-secondary schools that offer certificate, continuing professional education or occupation-specific education such as golf academies and culinary, technical and cosmetology schools.

In November, the Ed Dept charged ahead with a slew of new rules that would impact the ability of career colleges to enroll students who rely on federally backed student aid. The typical career college student is already in the workforce, 25 years of age or older, minority, oftentimes single and female, has lower income, cannot rely on family resources to finance college, and comes from a family without college degree experience.