{"id":2213,"date":"2012-06-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:46:39","slug":"change-not-for-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/2012\/06\/13\/change-not-for-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Change, Not for the Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are colleges and universities moving towards 120-semester-unit bachelor&#8217;s degrees, down from 132 or more in many cases. Others are seeking ways to offer &#8220;accelerated&#8221; degrees in three years instead of four. Of course, the not-so-secret truth is that many students take much longer than four years to graduate as it is &mdash; for a variety of reasons. <\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the four-year graduation rate from our state and regional public universities is 31 percent, according to Jeff Selingo, editorial director for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Private universities graduate a slight majority of their undergraduates, 53 percent, &#8220;on schedule&#8221; based on their degree plans. <\/p>\n<p>Consider the following example, which is representative of graduation at state institutions nationally:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\nJune 11, 2012. &mdash; Middle Tennessee State University is making efforts to increase its graduation rate, but still just over half its students are completing college within six years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 53 percent of MTSU students who began in fall 2004 graduated by 2010. That was fourth best among the state&#8217;s four-year public universities. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was tops with 67 percent. Tennessee Tech had a 55 percent graduation rate, and UT-Martin&#8217;s rate was 54 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of students enrolling at MTSU don&#8217;t graduate, and nearly a fifth don&#8217;t make it past freshmen year.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Republic; Columbus, Indiana (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/\">http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/<\/a>)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cutting the unit requirements, shifting to eight-week rolling enrollments, and other changes meant to make college &#8220;more convenient&#8221; might increase the completion rates, but will our institutions still be providing solid liberal arts educations? We&#8217;ve already shifted from liberal arts to &#8220;professional prep&#8221; within many degree programs, but this emphasis on graduation rates concerns me.<\/p>\n<p>Online programs are particularly easy targets for redefining what a degree means. I know many people have used online programs, especially the for-profit programs, to complete degrees. These students are focused on career requirements and don&#8217;t necessarily ponder what is missing from a professional prep program that omits or compresses the traditional pillars of the liberal arts general education.<\/p>\n<h4>1. Lost in the Rush<\/h4>\n<p>Having taught eight-week, 12-week, 15-week, and 16-week semesters, my experience and those of many colleagues is that content has to be cut the shorter the course time. While we can argue the class time doesn&#8217;t change, it is much harder to read the same content in eight weeks. Cramming 16 weeks into eight might seem possible in theory, but the reality is that the courses are &#8220;light&#8221; versions in too many instances. (If you&#8217;ve ever taken a summer school course, you know it is different.)<\/p>\n<h4>2. Less Shared Knowledge<\/h4>\n<p>When you move to &#8220;rolling enrollments&#8221; one of the consequences can be the loss of &#8220;prerequisites&#8221; from course to course. If any student can start at almost any time, you can&#8217;t have a long list of required courses. The result is that every course has to reintroduce basic concepts: you cannot &#8220;build&#8221; on past knowledge as you can with the traditional academic model.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a professor tell me that three weeks of each of his eight-week courses were review. The benefit might be that students are sure to get some concepts time and time again. Reinforcement works. But, this also causes yet more &#8220;rush&#8221; through the course content. More content ends up sacrificed to convenience.<\/p>\n<h4>3. Sacrificing Breadth<\/h4>\n<p>To rush students through programs in three years, 120-units or less, courses must be cut. It is not electives or discipline-specific courses that are cut in the unit reductions. Instead, core liberal arts requirements are sacrificed. The idea of a well-rounded education gives way to vocation-centric certification.<\/p>\n<p>We have problems with our colleges and universities, but making them easier and more convenient is not an improvement. Less rigor means bachelor&#8217;s degrees will suffer the same devaluation we&#8217;ve seen in high school diplomas. <\/p>\n<p>How can we even consider less rigorous degree programs when large numbers of college students need remedial math and English courses?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\nMay 29, 2012 (AP) &#8211; Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular coursework. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but student loan hangovers.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Businessweek (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/2012-05\/D9V2C75O0.htm\">http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/2012-05\/D9V2C75O0.htm<\/a>)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These students won&#8217;t be helped by higher education cutting requirements. If anything, I&#8217;m increasingly in favor of increasing the undergraduate requirements. If that means students need seven years to graduate, I don&#8217;t see that as a problem. You shouldn&#8217;t graduate until you have received a well-rounded liberal arts education and professional preparation. If you only want job skills, that&#8217;s the role for vocational and technical institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Learning should be our first, second, and third concern. Graduating &#8220;on time&#8221; is less important and not our most serious problem. <\/p>\n<p>The push to graduate quickly is a response to the cost of education. That&#8217;s a different issue and one we should address in other ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are colleges and universities moving towards 120-semester-unit bachelor&#8217;s degrees, down from 132 or more in many cases. 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