The Four-Year College Myth
2009 Jun 30
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The premise of this blog is that the prevailing view about who attends college, and how they engage, is way off the mark. The general assumption is that students go directly to college after high school, live on a campus, and study full time. That view drives public policy decisions even though it addresses a distinct minority of contemporary college students. Roughly 85% of today’s college students are older, work, and often study part-time.
So you can imagine how pleased I was to see this Boston Globe article, which describes what it calls “the four-year college myth,” the idealized view that college students graduate from high school and go directly to a college campus, study full-time, and finish in four years. Not the way it happens. In fact, the article’s author, Neil Swidey, states that his rough calculations using federal data would indicate that fewer than 10 percent of adults who have a bachelor’s degree earned that degree in four years or less. He writes, “By definition, that’s no longer traditional. It’s radical, and it makes you wonder why we still call them four-year colleges.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Welcome to The Other 85 Percent. So what does "the other 85 percent" refer to? Research has shown that only about 15 percent of higher education students still fit the traditional definition of young adults age 18 to 22 who live on campus and go to school full time. more
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