I wrote the following in the comments.
This started decades ago. By “this” I mean…Well, let one of America’s most revered observers of both America and higher education, explain it.
“…advantage can still be taken of [students] by unscrupulous instructors and institutions.”
That was from David Riesman’s 1980 book “On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism”.
By 1980, some professors and administrators were just beginning to realize how easily students and the public could be scammed. As Riesman put it in the same book,
“…the “wants” of students to which competing institutions, departments, and individual faculty members cater are quite different from the “needs” of students”
This article shows how the process has been fine-tuned, and how the rot has metastasized throughout this system. It has even spread into K-12 through the poor education of HS teachers. See more about this on my blog inside-higher-ed.com
This must change. Holding colleges accountable is the only way this will happen.
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