The New York Times goes to college
Anything and everything you want to know about college is the theme of today's the New York Times Sunday magazine. Topics range from affirmative action to violence on campus to curriculum development to the most popular major on campus . . . slacking.
The issue includes the winning essay from the Times-sponsored contest, "What's the Matter with College?"
Just before the Times published Rick Perlstein's essay of the same name and opened the contest to college students, I published my own thoughts on the contemporary college experience, "College is not the 13th grade." That post turned out to be the most widely-read essay I have published on PoliScope (at least according to Google Analytics). A major theme of that essay is the disservice that "helicopter parents" do their children by extending rather than cutting the umbilical cord once they arrive on campus. Interestingly, the response I received to that essay was almost uniformly positive (including an offer (declined) to publish it in a national education journal), the sole critical comment coming from a professorial colleague.
2 comments:
Prof. Ivers,
I believe the link you put for the Sunday NY Times college piece, was actually a link to a Washington Post article about the Iraq War.
Just trying to help.
ps: What did you think about the NYT winning essay?
I fixed the link. Thanks for pointing out the mistake.
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