BERKELEY — CSHE Senior Researcher Anne MacLachlan was recently featured in the Daily Californian, providing analysis on a new U.S. Department of Education proposal aimed at curbing federal loans for "low-value" college degrees.
The proposed rule would cut off federal funding for programs where graduates earn less than the average high school graduate. While the Department frames this as a safeguard against predatory debt, MacLachlan warned that a strictly market-driven metric may overlook the broader importance of the humanities and social sciences.
"(The rule) doesn’t understand the whole purpose of college,” MacLachlan said. “It is to allow young people to find out what they’re really interested in, to train for it, to expose them to all kinds of other possibilities.” MacLachlan told the Daily Cal.
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