Russell W. Rumberger, in

The Journal of Higher Education (July-
Go to College? Aug. 1984), Ohio State University Press, 1050 Carmack Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43210.
"It doesn't pay to go to college anymore" is a charge heard frequently since the late 1970s. Not true, writes Rumberger, a Stanford University researcher, although there are reasons to believe that a college degree earned today is not "worth" what it was 20 years ago.
In 1960, he notes, new graduates of four-year col...