If we accept more and more people into college, college will lower its standards and the four-year degree will no longer be as important as it once was. This will simply cause employers to look for people with higher degrees to do the job and put more students in debt because they will have to go to school for more years to get a higher degree the employer wants. If the requirements for college admission and graduation were more rigorous, then a college degree would have more value. I believe this will also push high school students to work harder to get into the university they want. This will show students that maybe a four-year college isn't for them and that it should be fine because we need people to do different jobs. In a Time Magazine article by Dan Kadlec, journalist and author of many articles having to do with our economy, he tells us that perhaps a four-year degree is not what it once was when he says: “For years, back-estimates rough estimates suggest that a college degree translates to lifetime earnings of more than $1 million on top of whatever you earn with just a high school diploma. The College Board later estimated the value to be $800,000. Two years ago, a sobering and widely read report further downgraded the figure to $280,000. "(Kadlec) It's hard to believe how easily the value of the degree has diminished, but yes, it has.