A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
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Re: A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
#2Yup, and if you are already in college don’t enroll in new classes until at least 2021 if you can freeze tuition. It is such a ripoff to be paying for world class education and end up with some basic online courses tossed together in a hurry due to a pandemic. Not to mention missing out on the social networking aspects that college life brings.
Re: A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
#3I think this is a great article, however, I think a more tempered approach may be to take online courses from a community college or similar to begin working on at least some gen eds.
This frees you up to do some of these other things that article suggests, while still getting credits under your belt.
Re: A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
#4I generally detest the large expense of universities given the difference between what they claim to offer and the actual value. That said, the options here seem to not be any better.
Get a job? Fresh out of high school kidd are going to have a hard time finding gainful employment for awhile, especially in the hardest hit areas.
Volunteer for a political campaign? Meh. That isn't much of a substitute, even if it has its own intrinsic value.
Why not encourage kids to instead look for schools that have been doing distance learning for years, or starting at a local community college instead? Its a heck of a lot less expensive (addressing the articles risk of investment point) and they are far less likely to take the money you ponied up for dormitory living while kicking you out.
Re: A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
#5If people follow that, colleges might decide to lower the entry requirements and the amount of students who join this year might be similar to the usual amount.
Perhaps a better approach would be to plan safe working conditions instead.
Re: A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
#6perhaps a little bit premature advice
college students are not at risk to begin with - I'd recommend waiting closer to mid summer
it might be the best time to attend college, fewer people enrolled, getting more attention from educators etc
Re: A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
#7What are the practical, social negatives of this? Will in-demand schools hold a grudge on the thousands or more of students they would have liked to have in fall 2020 and skipped? "You weren't there for us in 2020 so we think you're better off elsewhere."
Not that any university should behave this way; I'm asking if any quality ones would be.
Re: A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
#8Yup, and if you are already in college don’t enroll in new classes until at least 2021 if you can freeze tuition. It is such a ripoff to be paying for world class education and end up with some basic online courses tossed together in a hurry due to a pandemic. Not to mention missing out on the social networking aspects that college life brings.
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Re: A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
#9I think this is a great article, however, I think a more tempered approach may be to take online courses from a community college or similar to begin working on at least some gen eds. This frees you up to do some of these other things that article suggests, while still getting credits under your belt.
It's important to note that some colleges restrict the number of credits you can take/earn during the time between high school graduation and college matriculation.
My alma mater, Purdue, permits incoming freshmen to take a gap year (but not purely due to Coronavirus [0]). During that year, the would-be freshmen may not take >=12 credit hours of courses or else their admission will be rescinded and the freshmen would be required to reapply as a transfer student [1].
Re: A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
#10I generally detest the large expense of universities given the difference between what they claim to offer and the actual value. That said, the options here seem to not be any better. Get a job? Fresh out of high school kidd are going to have a hard time finding gainful employment for awhile, especially in the hardest hit areas. Volunteer for a political campaign? Meh. That isn't much of a substitute, even if it has…
Get a job? Fresh out of high school kidd are going to have a hard time finding gainful employment
In software I feel a strong guild/apprenticeship program could solve this.