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Graduates say degrees are worth it

Is college worth the time and money? Yes, said 89 percent of recent college graduates in a survey for the American Council on Education (ACE). Some 81 percent said their college education and...

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Is our college students learning?

Many college students aren’t learning “critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication skills,” concludes a study by sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. They followed...

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Unafraid of Virginia Woolf

Community college students usually read nonfiction in first-year English courses. Freakonomics and Fast Food Nation are standards.  Katherine Boutry taught Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael...

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Study liberal arts, get a job

Liberal arts classes aren’t frills, writes Rob Jenkins, an English professor at Georgia Perimeter College. Students prepare for success in the workforce by learning to write, analyze and solve problems...

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Teach writing every semester

Writing is the most important skill students learn — or fail to learn — in college, argues Henry Adams in the Chronicle of Higher Education.   Many students see themselves as customers buying four...

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CCs aren’t just for job training

Even in a recession, community colleges aren’t just for job training, writes Walt Gardner in Education Week. The academic mission is important too. Chicago will make community colleges the “first...

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Great Books belong in community college classes

Community college students should study the great books of western civilization, writes J.M. Anderson, dean of humanities, fine arts, and social sciences at Illinois Valley Community College, in a...

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‘I’m not paying for your opinion’

Students see themselves as consumers, not learners, writes Rob Jenkins, who teaches English at Georgia Perimeter Community College,in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He raised a controversial topic...

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‘Value’ plan leaves out learning

President Obama proposes rating colleges and universities on access, graduation rates, graduate earnings and affordability, writes Richard Hersh in an essay on Inside Higher Ed. What about learning?...

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They earned a degree and then …

College students don’t work very hard or learn very much, concluded Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in their 2011 book, Academically Adrift. How did those students do when they graduated and hit very...

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