Boy are those broad generalizations! I would also submit that they are not true either. Most college students are in college because they want to be there. They realize that a college education is an important step on their way to their chosen careers. Yes, there are some there because their parents coerced into going, but they are the minority.

Absolutely! I think you're hit the nail on the head with your reasoning for a sub par student achievement too. People who do not earn their own money have no connection or understanding of it's value. An example, welfare produced an entire generation of people who believed that money was free, (because it was) and therefore they had no idea how to go about making money for themselves and their incentive to do better was undermined by the fact that they didn't HAVE to do better. The same goes for gifts, if you give someone something they might or might not treat it with due respect, but if they had to earn the money to buy it, they would have more a sense of ownership and protect it. School tuition that is magically paid by someone else generally creates an unresponsive student compared to the ones who are working to pay their own tuition. Working your way through school reminds you every day how hard it is to get what you need, and you are inclined to respect and value it more so than if it were simply gratis. As far as ethnic grants, those are the cracks in the foundation of any college or university. The more cracks you get, the less your college will stand up, or stand out. Achievement levels are normed lower and lower until the day that we all wake up to discover that the majority of people in our society are held hostage to spoon fed pabulum. An example; right now it is considered ridiculous to say that global warming is an unproved theory, however real scientist do not agree, and yet the way it is spoken of in the press, there is universal agreement in the scientific community. The reality is that it is a political tool of the UN to subjugate the world into submission to their supposed authority. Those who bother to check it out any deeper than reading the headline are called *stupid* while those who simply believe it are considered intelligent. Before you challenge me on that point, you had better read some of the detractors first. I think people who can't pay for college themselves should not go there because they make it easier for the enslavement of society. Those who earn their own education are more inclined to challenge a professor who is obviously lying, or at least know the difference and attempt to correct the problem later when they are more influential than they are while yet a student. As far as a college losing it's accreditation, that will happen when it's students dare to throw off their blinders and begin to think independently and thus actually learn some of the dangerous truths of this world. Until they learn to play the pipes for themselves, it's the piper who calls the tune.