IHE Mentions the PBS Debate on College and the Economy

I rather expected a full article, but Inside Higher Ed today just has a "quick take" piece on the debate (topic: does the US economy need more college graduates?) I participated in last Friday evening. (Scroll down past several other items and you'll find it.) Why the use of snicker quotes around the word "marginal" when Rich Vedder and I argue that it does little or no good to lure academically weak students into college? Nearly all of the people who might be induced to enroll in college to increase our enrollment and graduation rates would have to be drawn from the ranks of those who have poor academic records -- that is, students who are at the margin of college qualificaiton. I'll write a Pope Center article on the debate this week.