Posted on 12/08/2022 7:52:46 AM PST by george76
One expert told The College Fix students need to ‘adjust their expectations’
While 87 percent of students said that college is “too difficult,” the same percentage are studying less than 10 hours per week, a new survey found.
Intelligent.com, which regularly surveys college students, gathered data from 1,000 respondents, all of whom attend four-year colleges.
“The vast majority of students (87%) say they have felt at least one of their college classes was too challenging and should have been made easier by the professor,”
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71 percent of students spend fewer than 10 hours per week on studying, and a total of 87 percent of students spend fewer than 15 hours per week hitting the books.
The survey organization found that about one-third of students who think they work hard fail to put in more than five hours a week into schoolwork. “But of the 64% who say they put in a lot of effort, one-third also say they spend less than 5 hours a week studying and on homework,” the group reported.
A former professor and longtime educational and cultural commentator said that the decline of educational standards goes back decades.
“These results say we’re near the bottom of a slope we began to roll down in the sixties,” Stanley Kurtz, an author at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a National Review contributing editor, told The College Fix via email.
Kurtz has taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.
“Students first need to adjust their expectations about the nature and purpose of education,” Kurtz said, responding to the minimal effort put in by students, despite many thinking they are working hard.
“In a proper college classroom, students come to understand that there aren’t enough hours in a day or years in a lifetime to drink in or grapple with the choices offered by the greatest pieces of literary, philosophical, or religious thought,” he said.
“Professors who are ‘difficult’ in this way should be rewarded with promotions, prizes, and praise,” Kurtz said. “Colleges should compete to hire them. Administrators who discourage, punish, or dismiss professors who are ‘difficult’ in this way—like the professor of organic chemistry fired by NYU—should themselves be dismissed and replaced.”
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The professor referenced by Kurtz is Maitland Jones, who taught chemistry at New York University until the school forced him out for being too tough.
While only nine percent of students filed a complaint against their professor, “[t]wo-thirds say the professor should have been forced to make the class easier,” Intelligent reported.
Kurtz also expressed some concern for how this trend could hinder the future workforce. “Obviously, students coddled with reduced expectations for work in college will fail in the workforce, or corrupt it, or both,” Kurtz said. “That said, the solution requires more than demands for increased work and discipline—although that is certainly part of the picture.”
87% of students are full of shat too!
33% of students drop out of college every year.
57% of students enrolled for college take more than six years to graduate.
28% of students drop out before they become sophomores.
And on and on.
‘Eye-Opening College Dropout Rates & Statistics – 2022’
https://admissionsly.com/college-dropout-rates/
I only studied about that amount of time but did not find things particularly difficult.
87% of college students have no business being in college.
Calculus 1: Young kid only a couple years my senior (I had spent over four years Active Duty) stood at the board and taught only to two kids just out of high school who were very bright. He ignored the rest of us and actually would denigrate us for trying to ask questions.
Calculus 2: Some guy from India wearing shorts, a tank top, and flip flops. He stood at the board with his back to us and never turned around or entertained any questions.
Both times I dropped the class and went down to the local Community College (it was ranked as one of the top five in the nation) and took Calculus from a retired 70 year old lady with a PhD in Mathematics. She actually knew how to teach people and was my most memorable, in a good way, professor.
I graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering in 1969. This was a small city college at that time, now the University of Toledo.
The lowest math class for which anyone could get credit was Math 181, Calculus I. There was an Algebra class, but it was 0 credit for those who needed it before taking Calculus.
Nowadays, you get college credit for classes such as, “How to Study”.
Indeed.
The dirty little secret of so called higher education which nobody will say out loud is that if you can afford to make the payments, you are getting the degree.
For the life of me, I do not see why people fly here from all over the world to study.
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Sure is a glaring problem NOW, isn’t it???
OTJT should never be forced on the employer.
They should ALL major in art
You’re talking to one now. Electrical. Laplace transforms and all.
Accompanied by the legacy of PARTICIPATION TROPHIES...
LOL.
Quit farting around and partying and start taking your education seriously. You’ll be surprised at how easy school becomes.
” I went to college and worked at the same time.”
So did I; so did a lot of people back in the day. I had the GI Bill and a student loan, and those went to tuition, books, etc. For everyday living expenses I worked part-time at various jobs, depending on how I could juggle the school hours and the work hours.
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