Many students are not prepared for college!

Excellent piece about how many students are unprepared for college.  Attending college when you had trouble with high school may not be the prescription for developing marketing skills for the job market.

San Jose State Will Ramp Up Online Offerings

At least some colleges and universities are attacking the old business model.  The problem is that most incumbents do a horrible job of replacing themselves.  It normally takes an aggressive outsider to send the old model to the grave.

This article is worth a read.

The End of the University as We Know It

Very well written piece by Nathan Harden.  

I loved the enthusiasm and agree that this is where we should be headed.  But because of all the subsidies for the existing system and parents and students that therefore don't really pay much attention to what kind of debt they are picking up I think that change will be far slower than in the music industry.