For anyone who's been out of college for more than a decade, it's not too hard to remember impersonal lecture halls, blackboards that were hard to read and long waits for one-on-one time with professors.
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Kolowich, S. (2010) No laughing matter Inside Higher Education, August 4
In case, like me, you missed this gem during the holidays, it is well worth looking up. Randall Munroe did a cartoon on his popular Web comic xkcd. The cartoon shows a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles — one labeled “Things On [...]
The Washington Monthly has published its 2010 rankings of the 4-year public and private not-for-profit colleges in America with the worst graduation rates. They have published a full story entitled, "College Dropout Factories".
According to the publication, the graduation rates of some colleges are astoundingly low: