But since as many as 30 percent to 40 percent of the graduates at schools like CUNY go into small or solo practices within a few years of graduating, the deans argue, it seems folly not to teach them how to stay afloat financially and take on low-income clients at the same time.
The school deans believe that it would be foolish to not endow their students with basic financial knowledge, as well as training in accepting lower-earning clientele, since many of the students become private practitioners or part of a small business.