"Declining By Degrees"

"Of all the students I met during nearly two years of working on our PBS
documentary about higher education, I continue to be intrigued by a
sophomore named Nate. After proudly proclaiming that he was maintaining
a 3.4 GPA despite studying less than an hour a night, he wondered aloud,
'It's not supposed to be this easy, is it? Shouldn't college be
challenging?' Nate was one of the more enlightened students that we
interviewed."
 
Continue reading at
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/perspectives/perspectives2005.May.htm
<http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/perspectives/perspectives2005.May.htm
>
 
 
 
Alan Altany, Professor & Director
Coulter Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC 28723 (U.S.)
Email: altany@email.wcu.edu <mailto:altany@email.wcu.edu>
Fax: 828.227.7340
CFC Web Site: http://facctr.wcu.edu <http://facctr.wcu.edu/>
SoTL at Western: http://www.wcu.edu/sotl/ <http://www.wcu.edu/sotl/>
MountainRise, SoTL eJournal: http://mountainrise.wcu.edu
<http://mountainrise.wcu.edu/>
 
 

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