Post-secondary education in the US is facing a perfect storm: unsustainable costs, declining enrollment & graduation rates, shrinking government support, poor job prospects for heavily indebted graduates. Meanwhile, China, and other nations are investing in growing the numbers of their university graduates. Is the US model broken? Goucher College President, Sanford Ungar and Charles Kolb, president of the French-American Foundation take a hard look issues such as: is a degree worth the required investment? Has college become an unaffordable luxury? What does that mean for the country's future?
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