Source: Some 43% of College Grads Are Underemployed in First Job – WSJ
I commented.
Wonder why they don’t get jobs that require a college education? Read this.
Today’s “degree” is not your grandmother’s college “education”… From Arum and Roksa’s… “Academically Adrift”, we learn that, after four years of college, average critical thinking improved by one sigma for freshmen in the 60’s…[but] only .18 sigma in the 2000’s. We also learn that studying outside of class went from 25 hours a week in the 60’s to 13 hours a week in the 2000’s.
That paragraph is from a comment that I posted 4 years ago on my blog, inside-higher-ed.
As a math professor. I’ve seen how prescient David Reisman was when he warned us, in 1980, that
“…the “wants” of students to which competing institutions, departments, and individual faculty members cater are quite different from the “needs” of students…advantage can still be taken of [students] by unscrupulous instructors and institutions..”
Now, please go to my blog for the details. Then you will understand this WSJ story.
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