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.
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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.
A lawsuit from business groups has challenged the FTC’s decision, which could improve life for millions of workers.
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“[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.”
Teaching existentialism today raises questions about frustration and futility—and whether the old classroom methods still work.