In its piece on the new AEI study on college graduation, USA Today says that “hundreds of colleges are failing to graduate a majority of their students within six years.”

Why is it a failing of the college if a student doesn’t do what he needs to in order to graduate? A more accurate way of stating the matter would be to say that a large percentage of students who enroll in college find out that they can’t or don’t want to complete the work (minimal as it often is) to earn enough credits to graduate. They’re the ones who failed to do something, not the schools.