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Some first-rate private colleges seem bargain-priced: Beloit is $4,595 and Grinnell $4,620. Top-rank public universities cost even less; the University of California at Berkeley is $2,174 for state residents, and the University of Michigan...
Soil on Hands. Northeastern was among the pioneers of the co-op plan back in 1909, but in the next three decades only 25 other schools followed its lead. Since 1962, however, colleges like Wilberforce University in Ohio, Beloit College in Wisconsin and Pasadena City College in California have flocked to the plan, both for its inherent educational advantages and for its solutions to problems of space and cost. Today, more than 300 institutions have begun cooperative education. An estimated 300 more are considering the step-spurred on by a White House recommendation that $10.8 million in startup grants...
Disenchanted Hitchhiker. Wisconsin's Beloit College is thoughtfully offering its delaying freshmen a bit more: counseling on everything from personal problems to finding jobs. From the University of Kansas to Yale, undergraduates find it easy to get leaves of absence for up to two years; at Harvard last year, one out of every 18 students was on leave. Stanford's sympathetic advisers often work out projects in which students get academic credit for analyzing the nonacademic jobs they take...
...counters, digging ditches or learning trades." The number of openings in elementary and secondary school is falling off, and companies are interested in specialists not generalists. As a result, liberal arts seniors are the most be wildered of the graduates. According to John Berry, a senior at Wisconsin's Beloit College, "The standard joke is that after you graduate you can either work for Yellow Cab in town or for the security force on campus. My father kept saying that with a B.A. the world was my oyster. I find that it's more like a watery clam chowder." Echoes...
...seem reluctant to commit themselves to a vocation. Of the 1,139 students in Harvard's class of '67, 90 declared themselves "undecided" about their career plans; of this year's 1,100 or so, there are at least 250 in that limbo. Last year the placement director at Beloit wrote to every junior, suggesting that they chat with him about how to prepare a resume to get a job. "I didn't get one response," he says. "Vocational planning to them is anathema, an Establishment sort of thing to do. These kids just don't want to start immediately...