I saw this today and thought: is this progress?
“In a Rare
Collaboration, Researchers Will Study Student-Loan Counseling at DeVry U.”
“Many academics
say they have a hard time conducting unfettered research on students at
for-profit colleges. And just about everyone says that all students, but
particularly those who are first-generation college students from from
lower-income families, need better counseling about the loans they are assuming
to go to college”.
“Now two
professors at the University of Wisconsin at Madison will attempt to bridge
both challenges with a new six-year study set to begin this September at DeVry
University”.
“The
researchers, Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of educational-policy
studies and sociology, and J. Michael Collins, an assistant professor of
consumer science, will be studying the borrowing practices of 10,000 online
students at DeVry”.
“All of the students in the study will receive
loan counseling through a special online portal offering basic, intermediate,
or intensive levels of loan counseling that the researchers will design. Students
will be assigned randomly to one of the levels. Then, with the cooperation of
DeVry, the researchers will track the students’ borrowing patterns and academic
progress”.
It is possible for “traditional” and “for-profit”
educators to work together! Let us see more of this!
Dr
Flavius A B Akerele III
The ETeam
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