Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earnings for investment

Re:Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earni... by rchaud on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:25PM (#19626860)

Many people also do not belong in an Engineering program, and that's why the 101 classes are designed to weed people out. That system already exists in higher education. At my (liberal arts) school, we have a two-strike policy. Strike 1 is when you have a sub 2.0 GPA in a semester; that gets you an academic suspension for 1 semester. You can rejoin only if you retake similar courses elsewhere and meet a minimum grade requirement.

If you are allowed to re-enroll, you have 1 strike left. Another sub-2.0 GPA and you're gone.

If the US brought such a generation-transforming policy like this to the table, the easiest part of it would be to set that minimum standard across all participating schools. Most likely already have something close to this in place now.

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Re:Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earni... by bgorman on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:32PM (#19627492)

Anyone with a pulse can get a 3.0 GPA in college. Due to grade inflation a "C" has become a B. A 2.0 GPA in college is basically straight Fs. In order to average less than a 2.0 in college I would imagine you would have to not show up for your exams and refuse to do any assignments.

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Re:Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earni... by PascLeRasc on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:45PM (#19627604)

That's just not true. Have you ever taken organic chemistry, electromagnetics, or differential equations? They're incredibly hard courses, no matter how you slice it, and I'm just speaking from experience at a low-to-mid-level school. The entry-level computer science course at CMU (15-112) supposedly takes around 40 hours per week to complete homework for. Courses on the pre-med track will have pretty unforgiving curves too.

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