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With a new Gen Ed requirement on the immediate horizon, incoming students can look forward to more mandated volunteerism, err, we mean experiential learning, which for many (most?) would be met by unpaid internships.

But in Friday’s New York Times we see the Obama administration appears to be cracking down on unpaid internships as a violation of Federal law. (See “Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say”.)

Cool. So this means students will get paid internships instead, right? No problem.

No, no problem for anyone who thinks we can spend our way to solvency, eat our way out of obesity, drink our way to sobriety and screw our way back to virginity. Everyone else should likely expect there will simply be far fewer good student opportunities for “experiential learning.”

Damn. We might just have to go back to educating our own students.