The Secretary of Education wants to impose a ban on post season play for schools who's graduation rates are below 40%.
Great, what next: Secretary of Education taking on teacher unions, or perhaps a ban on administration officals who can't properly file a tax return, or maybe even full-disclosure by releasing Obama's college transcripts?
The clowns in this administration will stick their noses under almost every tent, regardless if folks think it's an issue or not. If we think this is an issue at VCU, than nothing is stopping us for doing something about it without DC getting involved.
This is a classic example, yet again, of an over reaching federal government. If we want higher graduation rates at VCU then lets stop over recruiting [forcing kids from the program for non-academic reasons] and align our men's bb graduation rates with non-athletes (is it really much different?). Better yet, if we want even higher non-athlete graduation rates let's cut the size of our school enrollment from 30,000 to 15,000---think of all the "dumb" people we can cleanse ourselves from being associated with, and how those graduation rates will soar.
College, like life, is about opportunity, not outcome. We should provide opportunity. It's up to each individual to seize that opportunity and act upon it. If they are stupid and want to take the basket-weaving route through life, than that is their fault. I want to be a school that gives that chance, not one that allows me to turn my nose up at cocktail parties when comparing a school's incoming SAT averages. I say keep recruting. Keep growing, and keep reaching. Do it legally, and with integrity and while doing it tell busy-body politicians to stay out.
This is a reputation issue for each school, and should be governed by whether anything illegal [NCAA, etc] is being done. If not, the federal government needs to go pound sand.
