Back in those days, higher education in the United States was far less accessible, far more aristocratic and far less conscious of its responsibility as a gateway to economic opportunity.
The “150 percent time-to-completion” standard is an artificial yardstick rooted in traditionalism. It’s time to break that outmoded yardstick and develop new outcomes-based measures of success for all graduates — including those millions of older women and students of color who are currently “lost” in the data because life intervened on the way to graduation day.
— Patricia McGuire is president of Trinity University in Washington, D.C.
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