whereas 69 percent of twelfth graders intendto earn a baccalaureate degree, only 28 percent of twenty-five-to- thirty- four- year-olds hold baccalaureate degrees.
this is a sobering figure but helps me feel less lonely about my current process in school.
The typical student has at least a twenty-hour-a- weekjob, which is very discouraging—it’s reality, but it’s very discour-aging, because it cuts into my concept of what the requirementsof a college education are; the requirements of a college educa-tion are that you devote all or most of your time to that—that’syour job. And of course you get a group of kids who have noconception of what college is all about . . . who don’t understandlearning or the goal of learning.”
i have found this to be very true in my life. working 30 to 40hrs a week leaves very little time and energy for class work.
At the startof the twentieth century, around 6 percent of the U.S. populationgraduated from high school, and 4 percent of the population at-tended college. Today, the high school graduation rate is closeto 90 percent, and around 45 percent of eighteen-to-twenty-one- year- olds attend college
quite the jump in graduations.
Ultimately, the ed-ucators hoped that their universities would be able to divestthemselves of the first two years of college instruction, and focuson more advanced students
makes a lot of sense.
while protecting the research universi-ties from having to meet that demand and, in turn, dilute thevalue of their degrees
why doesn't prestigious research university focus on research. i don't necessarily see the conflict.
Studies ofstudents entering two-year colleges with the intention of earn-ing a baccalaureate degree indicate that these students face sig-nifi cant obstacles, at the level of the orga ni za tion, to realizingtheir original aspirations
very true. I have found it very difficult to balance school and work. I has taken me multiple years and I still don't have enough credits to transfer or go for a AA. People in community college often have other important things in life like jobs which take priority.
often invoke the role of affirmative ac-tion, despite the fact that affirmative action policies apply onlyto universities with highly competitive admissions processes
this is very true. Community college are usually a lot more diverse and give more opportunity for higher education for minorities.
GoodWill Hunting (1997) and Legally Blonde (2001)
Great movies!