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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 30612" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>I follow 33 on most of this, but his last point of change is, I think, wrong.</p><p></p><p>Why is post-secondary education more focused on higher admission standards and research funds? It isn't due to USNWR rankings. It's due to much lower levels of state funding for education and efforts by the federal government to fill the gap. When we stopped seeing post-secondary education as a public good and began to ask for students to fund it themselves, two things happened. First, the competition for students who could pay their own way - and thus weren't a drag on college budgets - became a lot more intense. Second, the funds that could be realized from research efforts from both private and public sources also became much more important as well. Result = more emphasis on academics across the board to a) attract students and b) provide a rep that could attract research grants. A place like Tech, that already had a good academic rep, would have been foolish to not parley that to achieve both goals. When the feds stepped in to try to replace some of the state funding, they did it through merit scholarships - and that put the original problem on steroids. Now to get fed help, colleges had to a) show that students merited the loans and b) that their families needed the help. That led to relentless political pressure to lower standards for need. And you end up with a system that essentially caters to middle to upper class kids who did well in school and a faculty more and more obsessed with research and less attached to teaching. The USNWR rankings are reflective of this; they didn't cause it. </p><p></p><p>So how about athletics? The major universities pressed more and more for athletic programs to pay their own way and to be successful. Given the admissions situation, this meant a slow process of separation of the athletes from the rest of the student body and a separate regime of admissions <em>and retention</em> for them. The NCAA has been fighting a rear guard action to regulate this ever since and has run into continuous threats from its FBS members that they would go their own way if regulation became stringent enough to make a difference. </p><p></p><p>To its credit, Tech has tried to take a middle road on this. Sanctions against us have been the result of administrative mistakes, not blatant cheating. Tech has also tried to thread the needle between high admission standards and producing quality athletics. Whether that will succeed long term is still to be determined, but that will be more the result of how we as a nation decide to handle post-secondary education then anything the GTAA will come up with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 30612, member: 265"] I follow 33 on most of this, but his last point of change is, I think, wrong. Why is post-secondary education more focused on higher admission standards and research funds? It isn't due to USNWR rankings. It's due to much lower levels of state funding for education and efforts by the federal government to fill the gap. When we stopped seeing post-secondary education as a public good and began to ask for students to fund it themselves, two things happened. First, the competition for students who could pay their own way - and thus weren't a drag on college budgets - became a lot more intense. Second, the funds that could be realized from research efforts from both private and public sources also became much more important as well. Result = more emphasis on academics across the board to a) attract students and b) provide a rep that could attract research grants. A place like Tech, that already had a good academic rep, would have been foolish to not parley that to achieve both goals. When the feds stepped in to try to replace some of the state funding, they did it through merit scholarships - and that put the original problem on steroids. Now to get fed help, colleges had to a) show that students merited the loans and b) that their families needed the help. That led to relentless political pressure to lower standards for need. And you end up with a system that essentially caters to middle to upper class kids who did well in school and a faculty more and more obsessed with research and less attached to teaching. The USNWR rankings are reflective of this; they didn't cause it. So how about athletics? The major universities pressed more and more for athletic programs to pay their own way and to be successful. Given the admissions situation, this meant a slow process of separation of the athletes from the rest of the student body and a separate regime of admissions [I]and retention[/I] for them. The NCAA has been fighting a rear guard action to regulate this ever since and has run into continuous threats from its FBS members that they would go their own way if regulation became stringent enough to make a difference. To its credit, Tech has tried to take a middle road on this. Sanctions against us have been the result of administrative mistakes, not blatant cheating. Tech has also tried to thread the needle between high admission standards and producing quality athletics. Whether that will succeed long term is still to be determined, but that will be more the result of how we as a nation decide to handle post-secondary education then anything the GTAA will come up with. [/QUOTE]
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