Newsome Road
Ten Pointer
Forget about who is paying and how. I just want to discuss the end result. In my opinion, there's one immediate issue. If you looked at colleges right now, and compared students who were held accountable for where their tuition money came from, and those who weren't, I bet there would be a very evident discrepancy in graduation rates and GPAs.
Here's what I noticed when I was in school....Students on academic scholarships generally work hard to keep them. Students who work their way through college appreciate the opportunity and see it as a means to a better end. Students taking a free ride on daddy's money tended to view it as a party for a year or two, then head back home and pick up where they left off. Obviously there were exceptions in all categories.
I imagine providing a free ride to people that were not necessarily motivated to be there will severely inflate that last category. I see a lot of people just riding it out as long as their free ride will allow and then heading back home, wasting a ton of someone's money.
Here's what I noticed when I was in school....Students on academic scholarships generally work hard to keep them. Students who work their way through college appreciate the opportunity and see it as a means to a better end. Students taking a free ride on daddy's money tended to view it as a party for a year or two, then head back home and pick up where they left off. Obviously there were exceptions in all categories.
I imagine providing a free ride to people that were not necessarily motivated to be there will severely inflate that last category. I see a lot of people just riding it out as long as their free ride will allow and then heading back home, wasting a ton of someone's money.