PolicyGuy

Thursday, October 27, 2005


Getting Waterlogged at the Fountain of Knowledge.
Time is money--especially when university students stretch out their academic careers.

At the University of Kansas, less than 30 percent of its students graduate within 4 years. It has launched a "graduate in four" campaign to push students along.

If successful, the effort would save the university some money, though the "graduate in 4" task force doesn't say how much.

One student who took a while to find a major objected to a proposal that students declare a major after 60 credit hours (that would be 2 years of full-time study): "I guess it was a matter of finding out who I am."

Find out who you are, man?

Is this a university, or a religious retreat?

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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