Graduates regret education choices
A majority of two-year and four-year college graduates would choose a different major or school or both, if they had a second chance, reports Voice of the Graduate, a McKinsey survey of recent...
View ArticleBest teacher may not be an ‘elite’ prof
Higher education will be transformed by online learning, argues Jeffrey Selingo in College (Un)Bound. “These free courses developed by elite institutions that serve tens of thousands of students at a...
View ArticleTeaching the unprepared
Colleges are trying hard to raise the success rates — or, at least, the pass rates — of unprepared students, writes Eileen F. Toplansky, who teaches writing at two- and four-year institutions. She’s...
View ArticleThe ‘anyway’ argument
Stop requiring college students to write essays, argues adjunct Rebecca Schuman in Slate. Students hate writing them so much that they buy, borrow, or steal them instead. Plagiarism is now so...
View ArticleASAP: More guidance, more degrees
Easy come, easy go is the unofficial motto of community colleges. Anyone can enroll. Few will graduate. Daquan McGee escaped the community college trap by enrolling in City University of New York’s...
View ArticleThank God I wasn’t college material
Thank God I wasn’t college material, writes Matt Walsh. He hated high school. I dreaded every class, every assignment, every test, every worksheet, every mound of busywork, every shallow and forced...
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Employers: Grads aren’t ready to work
Eleven percent of business leaders strongly agree that today’s college graduates have the skills and competencies their companies need, according to a new Gallup/Lumina poll. Yet, in a Gallup/Inside...
View ArticleStudents do well on fast track to college English
An accelerated one-semester reading and writing course helped remedial students succeed at California’s Chabot College, concludes a Community College Research Center study. Compared to students in the...
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Prof: Group learning wastes time
Group learning “is a waste of classroom time and an obstacle to student learning,” argues Bruce Gans, who taught English at City Colleges of Chicago. At a community college where he worked, non-tenured...
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Teaching grade 12½
Instructor Fabiola Aurelien (left) helps Atlanta Metropolitan College student Shaundraey Carmichael. The first year of college has become grade 12½ writes Rick Diguette in the Atlanta...
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