Colleges pledge to graduate additional 4 million
Public colleges and universities are pledging they’ll produce an additional 3.8 million graduates by 2025, providing a major boost toward a national target of having 60 percent of adults hold a college degree.
Two leading education groups say 490 institutions enrolling about three-quarters of four-year college students are committing to boosting the number of degrees they award over the next nine years. They say they’ll report their progress annually. A key part of the strategy will involve reaching out to students who’ve dropped out and failed to earn a degree at any institution.
The United States has fallen from first to 14th in the developed world in the proportion of its population with a college education.
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Great news! If only the people holding jobs currently felt more certain about pensions and health care so that positions might be vacated and the new graduates could join the workforce, earn a decent living, buy a home raise a family ,etc.,etc.