Obama Administration Should Do More to Achieve College-Graduation Goal, Panelists Say
President Obama and his administration need to get more involved if the United States is to meet his goal of having the world's highest proportion of college graduates by 2020, panelists said at the annual meeting of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities here on Monday.
Panelists pointed out that the United States has rallied before and increased college enrollment, especially after World War II, following the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, and with the advent of community colleges. So there is history to assume that the president's goal can be reached, they said.
Among the challenges in meeting the president's goal identified by members are the large number of students in the pipeline—mostly minorities who are not prepared for college work—the lack of stronger credit-transfer agreements between two-year and four-year colleges in some states, and the country's current economic difficulties. [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
