More often than not, the route from childhood to college is rocky, indirect or delayed. How can colleges best encourage and serve students from disadvantaged backgrounds, adult learners, veterans, and others outside the mold?
That was a great discussion, and some of those issues the panelists brought up still ring true today. One of the good things that came from the COVID pandemic is colleges and universities across the board made online learning a bigger part of their academic programs. That is great for a non traditional student like me who doesn't have time to rush from work across town to sut in a classroom for up to 3 hrs. Yes, it comes at a cost since they have to beef up their IT infrastructures but to me its worth paying.
The concept of Residential , the notion that a college student needs to spend a certain number of credit hours at a particular college or university in order to graduate needs to be re-examined.
I think that's to prevent a student from going to really easy classes, then transferring right before graduation at the last minute to a place like a Harvard where they spend like one semester, but still graduate as Harvard grads.
Biology IS biology, and this transfer system currently only serves the schools financially and is completely unethical. There needs to be policy in place to hold them accountable. Not only is this costly for the student, but let’s not forget, it’s massively time consuming to have to retake a class, especially if required for you to proceed in to other courses. For example: my physics course didn’t transfer, so then, I had to pay AGAIN, to take it, AND spend two months taking it, and in the mean time I was not able to start on my essential courses because it was a prereq.
I think the current stat is like 30% of Americans are college grads, just imagine the stable choices, jobs, families, and futures of the culture where its 100% grads, and all policies made that transition as debt painless and easy to access as they could create, we'd surely be the envy of the planet where also all the planet's examples of peoples have met and gotten along. It shouldn't be a niche category of adult to aspire to be because all of its hurdles which justify a scarcity situation to families of the latest adult generation, yet the golden standard of adults the world respects and admires for placing such an emphasis and ease of access to become. If you didnt get it done in your 20s it shouldnt be a life sentence to carry with you as the sum total for the rest of your life defining you to your family and neighbors, I strive to rewrite whatever stigma has been placed on me, being in my 30s, I know my story or value isnt what they assume it to only be.
