Higher ed economist: ‘Universities increasingly lie and cheat’ because they get away with it | The College Fix"...One symptom of this moral decline – if not a cause – “is that universities increasingly lie and cheat, both their customers (students) and the general public,” the Ohio University emeritus professor writes for the Independent Institute.
His prime example is the University of Oklahoma’s 20-year lie about its alumni donations, now the subject of an attempted class-action lawsuit.
But the Sooners aren’t unique in trying to fraudulently inflate their college rankings...
The consequences of lying are relatively trivial in these cases. What can U.S. News or Forbes do? ...
...Colleges entice students to attend implying that it is a relatively risk-free path to a prosperous life, which it is not. Do the colleges tell you up front what their dropout rate is, or point out a large percent of freshmen don’t make it into the sophomore year? Do they point out that a significant portion of their graduates is underemployed? Do they tell us about the risks as well as the rewards?
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