“We saw a lot of heartbreak and financial distress,” economist Preston Cooper told The College Fix.
Cooper, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, recently spoke to The Fix via a phone interview about his background and what inspired him to get into higher education economics.
He started by looking back to the “surge” in college enrollment more than decade ago when he was in college. Some enrollees “were not necessarily prepared for college,” went to schools that “weren’t worth the money” and this led to “heartbreak and financial distress.”
For a long time, college was seen as the only path for an average student and something which is a given for any high-paying career, Cooper told The Fix during the interview.
Over 13 years, Cooper has seen a big shift in how people think about colleges. There has been more enrollment in trade colleges and less in the lower end of liberal arts schools. […]
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