Reinventing College

Reinventing College: begin quote: The term "iron Triangle" is not from geometry class but from experts describing the three big, interrelated problems facing America's colleges and universities access, cost and quality. Only 3% fo the students at the top 146 colleges come from families in the bottom fourth of household income. Fewer than 6 in 20 undergraduates finish 4 year degrees within 6 years. Student-Loan debt has topped $900 Billion. And employers need workes with a college education more than ever. None of these problems can be solved in isolation. Higher education has been the great engine of American prosperity, innovation and social mobility, and we weaken it at our own peril. we must find a way to do better.--- Richard Stengel from the October 29th Time magazine on page 31.

My thoughts on this is that we could make free education that is online like:

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1. Khan Academy

   www.khanacademy.org/

   With a library of over 3000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to ...

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   and combine it with a non-profit to make it accredited as a free online college or university:
   

   Accredited | Define Accredited at Dictionary.com

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   officially recognized as meeting the essential requirements, as of academic excellence: accredited schools. 2. provided with official credentials, as by a ...

   In this way it could be a way for people to get free degrees who have the time to learn but not the money to get an education. This would prevent large student loans because it would allow the poorest (who were interested) or (Those who didn't want to incur) thousands in student loans, to get some kind of college degree that would be accepted worldwide as a Bachelor's degree.

   Also, this wouldn't compete with other universities because everyone would know that even though it is accredited that it also was a free degree. However, it wouldn't lessen the value of the knowledge gained by learning through a free institution like:
   

   Khan Academy