Enter The Three-Year Degree
With college costs skyrocketing, the economy contracting, and America falling behind international competitors in the educational arena, is the three-year undergraduate degree an "idea whose time has come?" Although the four-year degree has been the predominant model for higher education in the U.S. since before the Declaration of Independence, three-year degrees are standard at England's Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and more than a few American colleges have been experimenting with the "express degree" idea for some time, now. The idea has it's adherents as well as it's nay sayers . Molly Corbett Broad, current president of the non-profit American Council on Education and former president of the University of North Carolina, lauds the idea. Derek Bok , president emeritus of Harvard, is a detractor. From an article appearing last May in the Washington Post: At Chatham University in Pittsburgh, a three-year bachelor of interior architecture ...