Powers Pushes New UT Students to Graduate in Four Years
On Wednesday, addressing more than 1,000 incoming freshmen who descended on the University of Texas at Austin campus for orientation, UT President Bill Powers emphasized the benefits — financial and otherwise — of graduating in four years.
There is a lot riding on the incoming class. The university has launched an effort to increase its four-year graduation rate for undergraduate students to 70 percent by 2016. It currently has a graduation rate just above 50 percent.
The ambitious goal would put UT substantially ahead of other Texas public universities, the overwhelming majority of which currently have rates below 50 percent. But ...
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Michael McPhail via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Thank goodness classes needed for graduation will never be full or cancelled, students will never change majors, and everything will go perfectly from here on out. Or we can just pretend the Legislature's tuition deregulation and cuts of state funds to higher ed haven't been a total failure and blame students for bad GOP leadership in Austin.
Stephanie Robinson Borgman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And we can overlook the fact that more and more students must work to cover the cost of their increased tuition and living expenses because their families lack the resources to support them. We can also ignore the large percentage of nontraditional students returning to campus to try and upgrade their skills so they can leave the ranks of the unemployed or underemployed.