The Washington Post Notices Some Colleges Left Out of Obama’s New College Scorecard
Some are missing.
The Washington Post reports.
Some colleges were left out of Obama’s new College Scorecard
The new online federal college comparison system, College Scorecard, was touted as a resource for students considering colleges, offering information such as the average income earned by alumni, graduation rates and the cost after financial aid kicks in.
“Americans will now have access to reliable data on every institution of higher education,” President Obama said in his weekly address when he announced the interactive Web site on Sept. 12.
Every institution?
Some college officials questioned that claim this week because their institutions were not included in the comparison tool.
“Grove City College is noticeably absent from the U.S. Department of Education’s recently released College Scorecard,” its president, Paul J. McNulty, said in a statement Tuesday.
Some advocates quickly noted that the omissions seemed to be from among the nation’s conservative-leaning schools, such as Grove City College, Christendom College and Hillsdale College, which since the mid-1980s has refused to accept money from state or federal government, including grants or loans to students, and which does not report racial demographics to the federal government as required under the Title IV federal financial aid program.
Some colleges were left out of Obama’s new College Scorecard (Washington Post)