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Why Are Prestigious Colleges Blowing Up? Perhaps Because Students Are Bored | American Enterprise Institute

Why Are Prestigious Colleges Blowing Up? Perhaps Because Students Are Bored

Much of what’s going on is best understood as destructive cosplay by alienated students who don’t have enough productive work to keep them occupied.

Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work. | American Enterprise Institute

Campus Idleness Has Bred Extremism By Frederick M. Hess

Campus Idleness Has Bred Extremism | American Enterprise Institute

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Academia is adrift in a sea of low standards

“[S]omething indeed is seriously amiss in U.S. higher education,” says Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, authors of the book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.  Arum and Josipa’s research, which, starting in 2005, followed 3,000 students over 4 years across 29 colleges and universities, “documents that many contemporary college students enroll in courses that do not require either substantial writing or reading assignments.” 

Academia is adrift in a sea of low standards

Archives on the Air 260: Divisive Dictionary – Philip Babcock Gove papers

Philip Babcock was the editor of the third edition of Merriam-Webster’s New International Dictionary. At the time of publication, the dictionary was controversial due to widespread disagreements about the role of the dictionary and the evolution of language.

Burdened by Books | Robert Zaretsky

Teaching existentialism today raises questions about frustration and futility—and whether the old classroom methods still work.