Higher Education in America

Three-quarters of the schools found that fewer students dropped out of the newly reconfigured classes. At the same time, the cost of giving the courses dropped in all thirty institutions by amounts averaging 37 percent.

From 1961 to 2004, according to a series of self-reports from large samples of students, the average amount of time that

Nor could the trends be explained by larger numbers of students going to school part-time or taking longer to finish.

Homework accounted for most of the loss, falling from 24.38 hours per week in 1961 to only 14.40 hours in 2004.

All in all, more than 160 universities, most of them American, are operating branch campuses in other countries.

Thirty-two percent claimed that they had not taken any courses that demanded more than forty pages of reading per week.

From 1985 to 2000, the proportion of freshmen claiming to be bored in class reportedly rose from 26 percent to 40 percent. According to Amy Liu, Jessica Sharkness, and John H. Pryor, HERI Findings from the 2007 Administration of Your First College Year (YFCY) National Aggregates (2008), p. 9, the percentage of freshmen reporting that they were “fre

On the contrary, they say, professors who are active in research are more motivated than their unproductive colleagues to keep up-to-date with their field.

twenty pages in length during the entire year.

“who can predict the impact of exponentiating technologies on social institutions, such as universities, corporations, or governments, as they continue to multiply in power a thousand-, a million-, and a billion-fold.”