WASHINGTON — Colleges are graduating students with too many debts and too little sense of civic responsibility and entrepreneurial drive, a Carnegie Foundation report said Monday.
The study, by Frank Newman, president of the Education Commission of the States, urges research universities to overcome what it calls their antipathy toward technology and to apply "the fruits of research . . . to practical problems in industry, the environment and society."
To produce a new generation of civic and business leaders equipped to handle economic challenges from abroad, colleges must stop "stifling the inherent creativity of the student" and start encouraging risk-taking.
Loans Attacked
The report, Higher Education and the American Resurgence, decried the trend to saddle students with loans as the main form of federal student aid.