Sen. Rick Scott: 'Let's make the schools accountable' for preparing American students for jobshttps://www.campusreform.org/article/sen-rick-scott-lets-make-schools-accountable-preparing-american-students-jobs/30964Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., wants universities to take greater responsibility for preparing American students for successful careers, telling Campus Reform in an interview Thursday that colleges should bear some of the financial consequences when graduates cannot repay their student loans.
”The hardest thing is to get these schools to really, really, really care that all these kids get jobs. That’s the thing that I care about,” Sen. Scott said.
His Changing Our Learning, Loans, Endowments, and Graduation Expectations (COLLEGE) Act would require universities to assume financial responsibility for a portion of their students’ defaulted federal loans, expand reporting of employment outcomes, and require wealthy institutions to contribute more toward educational costs.
”Hopefully, the focus will be, okay, let’s have degrees where we know these kids are going to get jobs. Let’s prepare them for a job, because that’s what they should be doing, right? That’s the whole idea. Let’s make the schools accountable for these kids getting jobs and paying off their loans,” Sen. Scott told Campus Reform.
Given the degree to which, by multiple means, the Federal government subsidizes universities, that $$$$ needs practical strings attached. Or the gravy train ended.
