VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, [10] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: Fri, 11/22/02 7:05pm
Author: skin
Subject: Re: College Visit
In reply to: Steve Russell 's message, "Re: College Visit" on Fri, 11/22/02 5:20pm

He pretty much told me
>my recruitment efforts were pissing in the wind
>because if I got any they would not survive.

he was probably right - unless the school put about 10 times as much time, effort, and money into retention. My opinion anyway.

light of the tenor of the previous discussion, the
>only point I can make out is that we in research
>universities are not sufficiently grounded in
>nitty-gritty reality to be "relevant."
>
>That is, in good faith, my best translation of what
>you have been telling me.

The type of college or university does not matter - I have no issue at all with that. But almost all colleges and universities have failed Indian students, and most minority students as well, yet blame it on the student. And if they have not given up, they will continue to do the same thing over and over, and get the same relult - failure - over and over. Something has to change, and it their responsibility to meet the needs of their students, not the other way around.

In another post, I mentioned the completion rate at UT - hell - about the same is true almost everwhere. The completion rate, or dropout rate - or whatever failure rate you want to use shows that the high schools are doing a LOT better job than the colleges who hand pick their students.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

Post a message:
This forum requires an account to post.
[ Create Account ]
[ Login ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-5
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.