Basing aid on a B average is the wrong kind of incentive, but basing aid on a rigorous curriculum is a better kind of incentive. |
Especially in the last four or five years, it's been very difficult for state governments to keep pace with that demand for higher education. The implications of that have been seen in the increased reliance on students and their families to pay the costs. |
The last four years have been pretty dramatically awful. Whenever you have a recession, enrollment goes up and state support goes down, that's been particularly bad in Illinois. |