The College Dropout Scandal, David Kirp, Oxford University Press, 2019
Discussion Topics
RESULTS FOR DROPOUTS Cascade of poor results for young Americans (34 million over age twenty-five) who entered college but
did not receive a diploma ~ Financial~Social~Personal IMPROVING RESULTS – AREAS OF MAXIMUM IMPACT • Teaching and Learning • Advising • Campus Climate o Belonging and Growth Mindsets o Attitudinal Adjustments •
“Developmental” to “Supplemental” Math and English • “Glidepaths” from high school to university; community college to university; from first quarter to diploma • Data analytics to target just-in-time interventions and right-size, right-time course offerings IDEA BANK (paraphrases from TCDS) • Every student can learn anything under the right conditions. • Will student learning be improved? • Programs are merely the vessels; people are the wine. • He was . . . the poster child for grit. • He had to take remedial math, which left him wondering whether he was good enough to be at the university. • A college education gives students intellectual capital and social capital. • Our job is to provide you an opportunity; your job is to take advantage of it. • What can you expect? /What they can become? • It’s the happy face the university puts on an artificial intelligence system that messages students to keep them focused once the school year begins. • Carol Dweck and her colleagues found that telling students how experience alters the architecture of the brain could lead them to adopt a growth mindset. • Having someone who is a year or two older than you deliver this message makes an immense difference. • Data analytics and short psychological interventions are attractive to administrators because they don’t intrude upon the lives of deans and professors. • Each autumn, about 40 percent of all first-time college students enroll in community colleges. . . . more than 80 percent of them say that earning a BA is their goal. • The data also showed that new-gen students are reluctant to seek help from their professors, so the university hired upperclassmen as tutors.
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