Education is a service-based business, a corporation

In his book, The Shadow Scholar, Dave Tomar describes his negative learning experience at Rutgers. The most interesting thing for me is the so-called "RU Screw" (pp. 22-39).

In my view, Rutgers is just a typical example of the nowadays-higher education. In my view, many universities around the global are functioning in a very similar way. So to speak, it is not just the American failure higher education system failing. Universities are run as a business, a corporation, a moneymaker mill. What does the higher education administration really care? Frankly, it is not the student’s learning experience; instead, are the declining enrollment, the retention and dropping out rates, the imbalance of the fiscal budget, the reputation of the institution.

From my own work experience with colleges and universities, many students are accepted simply for the adding to the number of enrollment. I have seen nursing major student who does not even know the multiplication table yet passed the drug calculations class. I have known a few graduate students who do not know what APA and MLA stand for. It is not uncommon that students do not know the differentiation between databases and Internet search engine.