Several of this weeks USA Today\u00a0papers\u00a0had a couple of articles about college students.\u00a0 They are\u00a0summarized here:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0Freshman\u00a0enrollment\u00a0is up.\u00a0 6% increase in 2008.\u00a0 This\u00a0indicates that\u00a0enrollment is not being driven by\u00a0unemployed people.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, 75 percent of this increase came from minorities.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Some schools are granting admission to students who\u00a0 do not have the proper SAT scores.\u00a0 The school needs the bucks.\u00a0 I believe there are some students who may not qualify per SAT but they may\u00a0earn the grades with hard work, actually attending and listening in class, doing their homework, etc.\u00a0 It will show up at graduation ceremonies.<\/p>\n
3. Students are receiving student loans\u00a0which they will never be able to repay.\u00a0 The next ‘foreclosure’ issue.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 California colleges continue to be hammered with funding shortages BUT they are asking students to assist them with\u00a0creative funding ideas.\u00a0 One idea was to\u00a0hold free classes lead by volunteer teachers.\u00a0 These classes\u00a0cannot\u00a0issue class credit but\u00a0they are well received and attended by traditional students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Several of this weeks USA Today\u00a0papers\u00a0had a couple of articles about college students.\u00a0 They are\u00a0summarized here: 1.\u00a0\u00a0Freshman\u00a0enrollment\u00a0is up.\u00a0 6% increase in 2008.\u00a0 This\u00a0indicates that\u00a0enrollment is not being driven by\u00a0unemployed people.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, 75 percent of this increase came from minorities. 2.\u00a0 Some schools are granting admission to students who\u00a0 do not have the proper SAT scores.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[40],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}