Word: bachelors
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...strongest indictment: colleges do not involve new students in the learning process and keep them involved. "Only half of those who enter college with the intention of receiving a bachelor's degree actually attain this goal," says the report. Furthermore, standards have been allowed to slide: "Student performance on eleven of 15 major Subject Area Tests of the Graduate Record Examinations declined between 1964 and 1982." Finally, the colleges have no consistent, reliable ways of assessing what students are learning...
Worse yet, the universities allow students to make a poor selection of courses. "The college curriculum has become excessively vocational in its orientation," says the document, noting that "the proportion of bachelor's degrees awarded in arts and sciences (as opposed to professional and vocational programs) fell from 49% in 1971 to 36% in 1982." The impetus for the imbalance has come from parents and students who "believe that the best insurance in a technological society is a highly specialized education that will lead to a specific...
Some 12,380 students are enrolled in the extension school's 500 programs. The program offers continuing education and degree programs to Boston area students Enrollment is open, although candidates for the Associate's Bachelor's and Master's in Extension Studies degrees go through competitive admissions...
...Telling is as all-American as the customers he aims to please. The son of a bank cashier, he was an Eagle Scout by age twelve. In high school he was an end on the football team and a good tennis player. After graduating from Illinois Wesleyan with a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics, he joined the Navy during World War II and became a pilot, stationed in Pensacola...
Larkin's idiosyncrasies sparkle throughout Required Writing, an immensely readable gathering of his nonfiction prose. The topics reflect the diversity of freelance journalism, from the poems of Andrew Marvell to the novels of Ian Fleming, from jazz to a bachelor's speculations about why people get married. Larkin seems to have seized upon each assignment as an opportunity to puncture what has been overpraised, to praise what has been overlooked, or to make some wry self-revelation. Sometimes he does all three at once, as in his discussion of W.H. Auden. He recalls finding the famous older writer...