Our community can be somewhat insular and we forget the incredible value that higher education provides to the job market at large, and as unemployment rates rise, the disparity grows and makes education more valuable, not less.
I had hoped this would be an article about the practice of selling bad student debt (debt from dropouts unlikely to pay it back) as a way to get around new regulations. Instead it listed the same, tired list of famous people who dropped out of college. We all know their names and most of us also know that the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs have at least their bachelors degrees, and that a huge percent also have masters or phds.