As the White House proposes spending billions to improve completion rates, colleges measure successful graduation rates at 6 and even 8 years. Produced in partnership with the hechingerreport.
Asked repeatedly why graduation rates are still measured in increments of six years, whether this causes confusion among students and families, and what impact it has on pushing colleges to improve completion, the Department of Education responded by cutting, pasting and“They’re pulling a bait-and-switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America.
Accepting that fewer than half of students at four-year colleges graduate within four years means recognizing that many face significantly higher costs than they expected, while delaying the start of their careers.“If a family has a plan, they end up financially unable to get to their goal,” said David Bergeron, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a former acting assistant U.S. secretary of education for postsecondary education.
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