College worth is now judged almost solely by return on investment

Evidence

Second, the bottom line has become the only line in the current cultural valuation of college and a life beyond it. The debate about the “worth” of expensive college educations today turns almost entirely on the question of return on investment. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 385

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports the reader’s ‘Grafting & Growth’ and other infrastructure pieces only loosely; more directly relevant as background to essays on education and public goods.
• XREF: connects to: College quality rankings now measure return on investment rather than education — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 34; Guaranteed equal high income would remove the incentive to invest in costly education

Broader Connections

• Guaranteed equal high income would remove the incentive to invest in costly education #complicates (0.75)