Your final paper for this class will require research. Luckily, that research will be directly beneficial to all of you since you’ll be doing research into how education works. Where does a school’s reputation come from? What does it mean for a college to be selective? What is academic inbreeding? These are some of the questions that prospective students should consider.
But it’s deeper than that. I’ve had students in the past who wanted to major in business at UCLA but didn’t know that https://dailybruin.com/2022/02/12/the-quad-lack-of-undergraduate-focused-business-education-proves-challenging-for-bruins I’ve had students who’ve majored in psychology but didn’t know the difference between being a https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/social-sciences/difference-between-a-psychologist-and-a-psychiatrist#:~:text=The%20most%20significant%20difference%20between,and%20are%20not%20medical%20doctors. This means that students are attending school without a fundamental understanding of what they are getting themselves into. It also means they have no way of making the https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/cost-benefit-analysis to determine whether what they are doing is worthwhile or not. This also usually means that the students haven’t looked any further than a school to see what job prospects look like and what the most effective steps to securing actual employment are. They are, instead, on autopilot, wanting to see what they’ll be “when they grow up.” All this was ok in the days when everyone who graduated college paid little for the honor and was guaranteed a job that they would hold on to for the next thirty years. It’s not so ok when a college education isn’t nearly as much of a guarantee anymore and consumerism has infected education and placed all kinds of commercial pressures on it that have dramatically increased tuition and turned schools into brands.
Since any research you do is directly beneficial to your fellow students, please share with the class one tool you’ve discovered that you think is very helpful. Explain why it’s so helpful, but also think a bit about what its limitations may be and tell us about them.
