Any discussion of higher education inevitably comes back to money: the rising cost of tuition; the burdens of student loan debt; the budget cuts public universities are forced to make due to state funding shortfalls.
There is also a growing expectation that a college education should lead to real, measurable results. Learning for its own sake is all well and good, but today's students also want to know there will be a job waiting for them after graduation day. If not, they want the skills necessary to create their own opportunities -- which is why entrepreneurship training is such a hot trend on campus, expanding even as other disciplines are forced to cut back.
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