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College Presidents, Public Assess Value, Quality and Mission of Higher Education
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May 15, 2011
Executive Summary
This report is based on findings from a pair of Pew Research Center surveys conducted this spring. One is a telephone survey taken among a nationally representative sample of 2,142 adults ages 18 and older. The other is an online survey, done in association with the Chronicle of Higher Education, among the presidents of 1,055 two-year and four-year private, public and for-profit colleges and universities. (See the our survey methodology for more information.) Continue reading
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I think it is. That said, this form of education isn’t for everyone. What you get FROM college is what you put INTO college. Sure, it can be looked upon as an experience, as a life lesson. 4 years of college is too expensive (if nothing else) to drink beer, meet new friends, party and fraternize. There is the real reason for going to college.
That reason is to make a transition from high school to REAL LIFE. Many feel that they must have that transition to enter the work force. I does provide you with valuable coursework and study that you’d have a hard time getting elsewhere; but a college student needs, in addition to other college activities, APPLY the things he/she learns to real life.
College and maybe grad school costs a heck of a lot of money and are worth it. There are books about how it can be ‘done’ without breaking Mom and Dad’s bank or robbing them of retirement, There’s community college. Not all schools have to be Ivy League or private out-of-state. College is good, no doubt about it: WHEN ITS GOOD, ITS VERY, VERY GOOD-but when its bad, its horrid!
I’m in college, and I would estimate that about half the students in college shouldn’t be there and should be in trade schools. Good article to repost. RO
Thanks! I was in college in the 70’s … then again in 2006-07. I think most students today have no idea what they want in life, what they want to be when they grow up, so how can they go to school for it? Most kids are unfocused, and that is not necessarily a BAD thing. I am an educator, and the school systems are so impotent it makes me nuts! They ignore the findings of incredible educators and behavioralists, just because of the bottom line! It is all part of the sterilization of America! Instead of allowing and encouraging the individuality of students and helping them create their our personal VOICE, school force every student into the “state identified” mold … making clones who can spout the company line without flaw or feeling. *sigh* That’s why I don’t teach in schools any longer!
You’re a student?