Dan Taubman, national education officer at lecturers' union Natfhe, said: "This policy would affect colleges badly, which are financially weak, and could be enough to tip them into serious problems.
Dr. Judson Shaver, Marymount Manhattan's president, said that the college was badly in need of space, with several academic departments having outgrown their spaces.
Ten years ago, just 21% of Georgia's adult population had a college degree, badly lagging the national average.
Sheharbano Sangji, a 2008 graduate of Pomona College, was badly burned while working in the laboratory of Patrick Harran, professor and chair of the department, and died 18 days later.
The obvious question to ask is why does the government treat sixth-form colleges so badly?
There are remnants from a 200-year-old church imported from Vietnam by Mr. Vo and a lounge-like space where new videos by Mr. Trecartin — a surreal mash-up of college kids behaving badly — play continuously.
In recent months there's been much discussion about how, and how badly, colleges, as a whole, have failed students who have been victims of sexual assault.
Though he harbored hopes for going to college, he also wanted, badly, to find a job.
Now, Dayton is racing to produce, attract and retain college graduates as a badly needed food for its hungry economy.
