The New York Times reports a study on what parents think about their children’s college education. The study found that ninety percent of parents believe their children will attend college, but very few have confidence in the way colleges are being managed.
What does a letter grade really determine? For some graduates it’s the entire infrastructure on which their progressive careers stand. Grade inflation has become the sordid topic in the academic world for years now and has sparked many debates on how it should be rightfully handled. The statistical number of higher grades received has risen so greatly in some schools that questions have been raised: Is the work becoming too easy; and if so, does this explain why so many students are getting A’s? Have studying practices become so advanced that they have catapulted an alarming number of students into excellence all at once?
From the devastating earthquakes in Haiti, the educational institutions were destroyed. It will take time to rebuild and reestablish the country. This horrible disaster has not only shaken the Haitian nation, but the world.
The declining economic status of the nation has become an obstacle that most universities can’t compete with these days. The harsh reality of adaptation has come in the form of firings, open faculty positions, salary freezes, and furloughs. Probably one of the most painful changes colleges have made in order to survive is the tuition hikes to accommodate the lack of student enrollment so that they can maintain some semblance of their prior status. Of course, choices such as these only result in catch-22’s rather than positive change.
It’s no secret that the youth of today are much different than those 20, 30 and 40 years ago. There are different challenges and struggles. Media influence and advances in technology have generated a need for fast results and immediate success. Materialism and the need to have everything we want, has resulted in drastic changes in the way students view their educations.