{"id":2189,"date":"2018-06-19T10:56:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T14:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2018-06-19T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T14:56:33","slug":"survey-americans-think-us-higher-education-system-must-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/06\/19\/survey-americans-think-us-higher-education-system-must-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Americans Think US Higher Education System Must Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2190\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CollegeCampusStudents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2190\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CollegeCampusStudents.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CollegeCampusStudents.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CollegeCampusStudents-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Americans believe in the power of higher education, but most say that colleges aren\u2019t functioning the way they should.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent survey of 1,600 US adults commissioned by the Washington, DC-based New America think tank:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seventy-five percent of Americans say that it is easier to be successful with a college degree.<\/li>\n<li>But only a quarter of those surveyed agree that the higher education system \u201cis functioning just fine the way it is.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans see room for higher education to improve,\u201d according to a report highlighting the survey results. \u201c\u2026Millennials, who are on track to the be the most educated generation to date\u2026and therefore have the most experience with the system, are more likely than other generations to think it is not working as well as it could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One sticking point? Unequal access to higher education.<\/p>\n<p>Only four in 10 of those surveyed said they believe that all Americans have a \u201cdecent chance\u201d of getting into a good college.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/in-depth\/varying-degrees\/\">View the rest of the survey findings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans believe in the power of higher education, but most say that colleges aren\u2019t functioning the way they should. According to a recent survey of 1,600 US adults commissioned by the Washington, DC-based New America think tank: Seventy-five percent of Americans say that it is easier to be successful with a college degree. But only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/06\/19\/survey-americans-think-us-higher-education-system-must-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Survey: Americans Think US Higher Education System Must Change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-zj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}