March 25, 2024

Obama’s College Rating System: Love It? Hate It? Now’s the Time to Speak Up.

It wasn’t until August 2013, in a series of college campus speeches, that President Obama first spoke in detail about his plan for a federal college rating system that would be used in allocating federal student aid to institutions.

In late January, the American Council on Education – speaking for 19 higher ed associations – sent the Department of Education a five-page “community letter” detailing the associations’ concerns, which might be summed up as, “We don’t support a federal college rating system and see no need for it, but if there were to be one, here are issues to be addressed.”

Then this past February the administration released hundreds of pages of public comment that, Inside Higher Education noted, “mostly underscore the deep reservations that many higher education leaders have about the plan but also highlight pockets of support.”

The public discussion and debate has continued unabated in 2014, as this May 25 New York Times article summarizes.

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