Hi Guys!
Today, I’m headed down to the White House to participate in the live Q&A the President will be doing with Tumblr about the importance of making college more affordable for current students, graduates and their families and the new executive actions he announced on Monday to ease the burden of college debt for millions of Americans.
David Karp will be interviewing the the President, using questions from the Tumblr community. The event will stream live today at 4pm ET on the White House Tumblr.
Above are some of the charts from a newly released White House report which show … pretty much what I’m sure you all already know. The current system is, shall we say, imperfect. There is a lot of work to be done. Hopefully, today is illuminating and gives us reason to be optimistic.
I’ll post any other charts I come across here, document the trip on my personal Tumblr (so as not to spam those who are uninterested with non-charty content here) and will be live-Tweeting the event and attendant mischief at /ilovecharts. I’ll see you there!
Hugs and hand-pounds,
Jason
I have no problem with the claim that the cost of a college education has become exorbitant. There is another claim that has been paired with that one that doesn’t figure, if these charts are to be believed. The second claim is that the kinds of education provided – currently and historically – by existing colleges, and here I’m thinking about the traditional four year institution, are not providing a service of value that will provide a return on investment and therefore need re-formation. I’m looking at the charts and purposefully using the market language and thinking the charts have to be drawn from extant data that comes from historical patterns.
From just this snapshot I find it difficult to reconcile the push to re-form college education into market driven vocational education.