I’ve taught in various universities for the past 27 years. Students are now ‘clients’ meaning that if you have a checkbook or promise of one, you’re in...and after attending 5 or 6 years students feel entitled to a degree (regardless, of course, of the quality of their ‘work’).
College today is about what my junior high work was like in the 50s/60s, except we had consequences for poor work back then: you didn’t pass!
“College today is about what my junior high work was like in the 50s/60s”
Pritty dom close, mon!!
I wonder if they know when the War of 1812 was fought? Or do they think Apollo 13 was where Tom Hanks saved the other astronauts? Can they write in cursive? What was the result of the sinking of the ship Lusitania? Can they run a household budget without being overdrawn or using credit card debt? I’d love to write the poll questions.
I totally agree! Their work effort is by and large abysmal. How some get into college is beyond me. But colleges, especially community colleges will take anything that is breathing and not assumed room temperature.
Having worked in a college library the last twenty years I run across research papers left behind or in some cases left in Word files and have watched the continued and rapid decline in the quality of work these students are presenting to their instructors. It is something to behold!
The net result of everyone going to college these days is that college standards have been lowered to be what "everyone" can handle. This means that colleges are now teaching things that are supposed to be taught in junior high. I took a look at my nephew's (college freshman) math assignment one day, it looked like something you or I would have done in seventh or eighth grade.
Good post........