In the midst of current economic conditions, many colleges and universities are altering their admission practices to admit more students who can pay full tuition, according to FOX News and just about any other reliable (that's not meant to suggest that FOX News is at all reliable) source for information on higher education.
On the heels of an era in which institutions took great strides to make post-secondary education affordable for students from low-income backgrounds, colleges and universities are struggling to preserve such programs while facing shrinking endowments and tighter budgets. Prospective students who offer the promise of full-pay are an attractive asset to schools seeking to offset the tuition discounting necessary to recruit and enroll low-income students.
As a result, students from middle-income backgrounds find the challenge of earning admission to the many selective institutions across the nation greater than before. As colleges and universities continue their efforts to boast higher enrollments of low-income students, and enroll higher numbers of high-income students to defray the lost tuition revenue, what happens to the middle-income students? College options for good students from good public high schools are shrinking just as quickly as the funding for higher education.
Hardly seems like the path to widespread degree attainment necessary for the preservation of America as a great society.
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