A situation when students do not succeed in course work.

National Review reports.

A New Job for College Career Services: Tell Students to Quit

I tend to be pretty critical of the federal government, but every once in awhile the feds come up with something that is quite useful. In this case, it is the Labor Department’s 2016-2017 Occupational Outlook Handbook.

For a high school student thinking about what (if any) college to attend, it provides an excellent list of occupations, expected salary levels and — very interestingly — educational requirements for the jobs listed. We are accustomed to see income levels for careers that require college and professional degrees, but it may surprise some to see how well a person can be compensated with little or no college education.

The Wall Street Journal describes the Handbook at greater length in this article, and it got me to thinking about how college Career Services staff could make use of this information. In my own experience on a college faculty, it was clear that many of the students in my courses would go on to advanced degrees or professional programs, and they were making good use of their college investment. However, there were others who — although admitted to college — were just wasting somebody’s money, listed on probation and struggling to get by.