More significantly, Mr. Zucker appears overly anxious to saddle colleges and universities with the burden of easing student debt. Likewise, I think it's in the interest of our community to define better the value of a higher education. However, our drive to do so must be based on something more than alarmist and incorrect information.
True education starts with the facts.
Anything less is merely a blunt instrument. As for increasing federal or state support, colleges have individually and collectively sought increased aid for more than two decades and the suggestion is neither original nor a realistic strategy to address the emergent economics of a baccalaureate. In other words, the issue of college affordability has now decidedly become the college's responsibility. Nonetheless, the article makes two statements that do merit clarification. The central point is that higher education is steadily moving from a financial model where costs are paid by former and current family income to one paid by current and future student income.