Obama admin to publish its plan to rate colleges on performance

[wvit1001]

GOP gives feds’ college rating plan an F


The Obama administration will soon publish its plan to rate more than 6,000 colleges nationwide based on the value they provide to students and to society.

The goal is to steer billions in federal financial aid toward the colleges that rate highly — and to yank funds from those that fail to meet administration standards on yardsticks such as the graduation rate, the cost of tuition or the percentage of low-income students on campus.

Congressional Republicans, outraged, are already going on the attack.

“They’re getting involved in something they have no business getting involved with,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), a former college administrator. “Absolutely, it’s overreach.”

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) plans to lead an effort to cut off funding for the ratings initiative. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has said he’ll do the same in the Senate. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is among many prominent voices denouncing the concept as profoundly flawed.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said he sees rating colleges as “a financial and moral obligation,” meant to help families make wise choices and to ensure taxpayers’ $150 billion annual investment in student aid isn’t squandered.

But GOP critics frame the rating plan — expected Friday — as yet another example of arrogance and imperialism from the White House. They argue that it’s not just presumptuous, but logistically impossible for the Education Department to assess the quality of so many institutions, ranging from Harvard to Honolulu Community College.


And they have some powerful allies in their corner, including several higher education trade associations and numerous college presidents, some of whom have been quietly lobbying their representatives for months — not that it took a lot of lobbying to rouse opposition to the ratings. Republicans on the Hill were already up in arms over the administration’s proposed crackdown on for-profit career-training colleges, calling it an unwarranted intrusion into the free market.

“To a lot of Republicans, this Department of Education has been characterized by mission creep, and [the rating plan] is simply another manifestation of that,” said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of government and public affairs at the American Council on Education.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/college-rating-plan-republicans-113656.html

[Local5th]

Wouldn't it be nice if they did something like this to fed departments/policies?

[sweetwater5s9]

Not one of the federal governments enumerated powers.   



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Etc...   There are many who rank college performance.

[D2D]

What gives democrats the right to rate colleges?

Shouldn't that be done by an independent and unbiased party?

[sweetwater5s9]

It has more to do with Obama's bigotry than college ratings/performance which is available for students.  Read Obama's fine print.

[D2D]

Just another god awful waste of taxpayer dollars!

[BOBRI123]

What gives any  Government Democrat or Republican  the right to rate any college  ?

This is Just another Obama push into the News to get people to Forget about Benghazi Fast and Furious and other Obama Scandals he refuses to answer Questions or release Government files about !


BOB  RI   123

[wvit1001]

see, anything to help out the people is instantly rejected by you nuts.

[D2D]

Several magazines like US News, etc. rate colleges and universities!

Government doing the same damned thing accomplishes nothing other than wasting taxpayer dollars duplicating what the private sector does!

[sweetwater5s9]

It isn't about helping colleges or students...

[sweetwater5s9]

N.Y. Times

 For years this task has been dominated by private companies like Barron’s and U.S. News & World Report.

The idea that the government would try to rate the schools has rattled the entire higher education system, from elite private institutions to large state universities to community colleges.

“Applying a sledgehammer to the whole system isn’t going to work,” said Robert G. Templin Jr., the president of Northern Virginia Community College. “They think their vision of higher education is the only one.” Many college leaders accuse the president of grasping for a simplistic solution to what they call a crisis of soaring tuition.

Ultimately, Mr. Obama wants Congress to agree to use the ratings to allocate the billions in federal student loans and grants. Schools that earn a high rating on the government’s list would be able to offer more student aid than schools at the bottom.
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Many college presidents said a rating system like the one being considered at the White House would elevate financial concerns above academic ones and would punish schools with liberal arts programs and large numbers of students who major in programs like theater arts, social work or education, disciplines that do not typically lead to lucrative jobs.

They also predicted that institutions that serve minority and low-income students, many of whom come from underfunded schools and have had less college preparation, would rank lowest in a new rating system, hurting the very populations the president says he wants to help.




http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/26/us/colleges-rattled-as-obama-presses-rating-system.html?_r=0



Obama always F's up even with his bigotry programs...   He cannot help it being who he is and isn't...

[wvit1001]

see, anything to help out the people is instantly rejected by you nuts.