Why Have Young Americans Cooled on College Degrees? |
It wasn’t long ago that most young Americans automatically went to college. Not going to college was regarded as a stigma and a guarantee of low-paid, menial work. Now, however, college is not in everyone’s plans.
Why? There are numerous reasons. In today’s Martin Center article, Sherman Criner, a recent Duke grad, gives us his insight.
He writes, “Historically, the prestige of higher education relied on a form of geographic and........