Top universities slip down rankings under new student-focused system Really, the question is did the student have a good time? The total collapse of university as a place of education is just around the corner. More below. I had a great time while attending college, but the work was work, and should remain work. Our big problem in college is we have decided that we need to allow anyone who can minimally graduate from high school to attend. But this means we need to dumb down the material taught or the majority of those students will not be capable of performing any work. The result is lowered standards, reduced quality, grade inflation, price inflation, and poor results in all but the few rigorous areas of study.
Boomers have spent the past few decades believing their precious snowflake children, and grandchildren need to attend college, because they are brilliant. Mostly they are average, but don't tell Soccer Mom, she'll freak. About 15% of students have what it takes to move from high school to rigorous college coursework. Another 20% have what it takes to attend college like coursework (really more like trade school) think engineering school, computer science school, and similar schools. The rest will receive zero benefit if the coursework remains high quality, and rigorous because they will not be able to functionally perform. They can be further educated, and it is possible that if our K-12 were better quality that more of these students could perform at higher levels, but that is not the case today. Universities need to stop focusing on whether students had a good time, and refocus on providing a top quality education, in whatever the school, or topic. They also need to massively cull the craptacular, and nonsense schools. Get rid of the studies schools, and either reinvigorate the humanities, and social sciences, or get rid of them. As they are they are useless. Or they can continue mining the students for money, regardless of outcome, but one the piper demands his payment the reckoning will be dire. Choose wisely.
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