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College coursework is often full of "fads
and fashions," and the growing number of
non-essential courses students must take is
wrecking the value of their college degree,
said the authors of a three-year study released
this week.
The report, pioduced by an 18-member
task force established by the Association of
American Colleges (AAC), said colleges'
tinkering with traditonal liberal arts curricula
is rlillitino fhp wnrfh nf a lihcral arte rnllcop
education.
"Curricula are confused, fuzzy and drifting,"
said panel member Arthur Levine,
president of Bradford College of
Massachusetts.
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Buffeted by dwindling financial resources
and a shrinking pool of potential students,
colleges have "put their curriculums up for
auction and sold out to the highest bidder,"
Levine said.
The report said "non-essential" courses
for mucking up traditional liberal education.
It said remedial programs for students who
are unprepared for college and technical
classes ? eg., secretarial and police science
courses ? typically obstruct, not advance, a
college education.
But administrators offer the courses with
an attitude of "almost anything goes," the
report said.
"Fads and fashions, the demands of
popularity and success, enter where wisdom
and experience should prevail."
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Panel members also blame the fogging of
college curricula on professors who place a
higher premium on research on their own advancement
than on teaching.
The report urges colleges to restructure
their curricula to create practical liberal arts
programs that combine core humanities subjects
with career'skills.
Levine cited Drosrams at Bradford. Alver
no College in Miluakee, Scripps College in
Claremont, California and Birmingham
Southern College in Alabama as role models.
He predicts colleges will begin following
their lead in droves.
'Institutions arc learning that hunkering
down, holding tight and just trying to get
through this demographic onslaught is a slow
slide to nowhere," he said.
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