What are Virginia’s College Students Learning?

In a state whose history is central to the American Founding, it is distressing that a recent survey by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) revealed that only two of the Commonwealth’s universities – and only one of Virginia’s dozen public institutions (James Madison University) – requires a survey of American government or history. And not a single college or university requires economics.

Clearly, curricular improvement – specifically, more focus on the essentials and less on non-basic, trendy and/or politically correct course offerings – is in order.

Achievement levels are suffering as well. In Virginia and throughout the nation, The National Assessment of Adult Literacy reports that most college graduates, after gaining a costly baccalaureate degree, are only at the intermediate level or below of prose, document, and quantitative literacy.

This is happening as the costs of a college education continue to rise at a dizzying pace. ACTA reports that in 1980, an American family in the lowest 20 percent income bracket would have to spend 13 percent of its annual income for one child to afford tuition at a public four-year college. By 2000, that climbed to 25 percent and continues to rise. In fact, the cost of a college education has actually been climbing faster than the skyrocketing cost of health care. In recent years, increases in tuition and fees at Virginia institutions, public and private, typically exceed — and often far exceed — national averages, which are already too steep for many families to sustain.

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