ISI Exec Assails Higher Education

RALEIGH — Intercollegiate Studies Institute Vice President for Programs Mike Ratliff uses a story about a University of Colorado student to discuss what he considers to be some of the problems with higher education today. The student had originally intended to study engineering. However, some friends persuaded him to change majors to communication studies in order to have more fun in college. When the student graduated, he found out that the only job he could gain were ones that required a high-school degree. Even the military would allow him to enter only as an enlisted solider and not the in officer training program.