Christina Clark, writing in Inside Higher Education: “Truncating undergraduate education (through a three-year degree) is the wrong way to address college affordability. It disadvantages students in the workforce and contradicts what we know about human brain development. It concerns me that this important evidence is missing from public debates in state legislatures across the country. Colleges and universities often market these reduced-credit programs as workforce-oriented options that will save students time and money. Many of the reduced-credit program trailblazers are institutions that were suffering enrollment declines.” Read the full commentary here.


