Undergraduate Education

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"The average cost of attending a four-year college or university in the United States rose by 497% between the 1985-86 and 2017-18 academic years, more than twice the rate of inflation."

     - Forbes. (2020, August 31).  Homeschooling's Meteoric Rise in the U.S. Continues.  https://www.forbes/sites/zengernews/2020/08/31

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"Based on data from the NCES, college enrollment in the United States has been declining since its peak in 2010"

     - Research.com. (2020, October 19).  75 U.S. College Statistics: 2021/2022 Facts, Data & Trends.  https://research.com/universities-colleges

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"In a typical semester, for instance, 32 percent of the students did not take a single course with more than 40 pages of reading per week and 50 percent did not take any course requiring more than 20 pages of writing over the semester.  The average student spent only about 12 to 13 hours per week studying - about half the time a full-time college student in 1960 spent studying, according to the labor economists Philip S. Babcock and Mindy S. Markts."

     - Arum, Richard and Roksa, Josipa (2011, May 15).  Your So-Called Education.  https://nytimes.com/2011/05/15

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"Rometty said, "When I became CEO in 2012, we looked at every single job and said, 'Do we need a college degree to start, or could we translate into a set of skills you need?' So, what started as over 90% of jobs needed a college degree, is now less than 50%."

     - Rometty, Gina (CBS News Interview) (2022, May 15).  Paths to avoid crippling student debt.  https://www.cbsnews.com.news/paths-to-avoid-crippling-student-debt