Fewer attending college despite scholarships

If you build it they will come but if you offer high school kids a hefty bonus for going to college, many won’t come.

Such is the rather amazing finding that despite a state scholarship program dangling upwards of $5,500 a year to attend a four year university, 62% of last year’s high school graduating class found something else to do rather than pursue a higher education.

That was much to the chagrin of Michigan’s governor whom wants to see 60% of the state’s population carrying around a sheep-skin by the year 2030. The number is now at 51%.