Others see the graduation rates as a failure of colleges to do their job properly, or blame students for being undisciplined and taking up slots better occupied by fresh-faced, motivated freshmen.
The failure of colleges and universities at all levels to convey the true costs of attendance will only exacerbate the public shellacking that they receive in the media, statehouses, and on Capitol Hill.
Carter discussed the failure of college campuses to adequately address violence against women and persistent inequality in wages and opportunity.
While examples like the OSU case are a dramatic illustration of the failures of college procedures for handling sexual assault, it's important to remember that dealing with police can be equally ineffective, frustrating or traumatizing for survivors.
Earlier this year, I read an article about the failure of elite colleges to attract poor students: a Stanford study had found that only 34 percent of top students in the lowest income level had attended one of the country's 238 most selective colleges.
Instead, the department's lesson on oversight from the failure of Corinthian Colleges was, "Boy, wouldn't it be nice if someone else could do that for us?" Nassirian said.
"For the country to succeed," Schupp said, "this generation of veterans has to succeed". The struggle of veterans to stay in school, and the failure of many colleges and universities to help them, is part of a broader challenge as some 2.3 million veterans flood home from Iraq and Afghanistan to confront a difficult adjustment to civilian life.
The company filed for bankruptcy in May in the largest failure of a college chain in U.S. history.
Corinthian, which at its peak operated more than 120 colleges with more than 110,000 students across North America under the Everest, Wyotech and Heald brands, filed for bankruptcy in May in the largest failure of a college chain in U.S. history.
During his roughly seven-year term, Duncan presided over a doubling of outstanding national student debt to $1.3 trillion, as well as the largest failure of a college chain in U.S. history.
The failure of some majorOxbridge colleges to accept even half of their intake from state schools will be criticised in the strongest terms by the public body, the Observer has learned.
