To the Editor:
“College, the Great Unleveler,”
by Suzanne Mettler (Sunday Review, March 2), presents an elitist view
of higher education. Ms. Mettler doesn’t acknowledge that a “one size
fits all” higher education (traditional, expensive, campus-based) no
longer fits the needs of most college students today.
The
article’s premise would deny opportunities opened by for-profit
institutions for “nontraditional students,” from hard-working veterans
to high school grads who simply need flexible learning while working
through school.
The
for-profit sector needs expanding and improving, not shrinking.
Traditional colleges have their place, and we have no intention of
fighting the education culture war Ms. Mettler is declaring on us from
the Ivy League. But a majority of America’s students deserve the
opportunities and flexibility that elite institutions (inaccessible to
most students) don’t provide.
MARK BRENNER
Phoenix, March 4, 2014
Phoenix, March 4, 2014
The
writer is senior vice president for corporate communications and
external affairs at the Apollo Group, owner of the University of
Phoenix.
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