In her article, “A New Course”, Magdalena Kay, an associate professor of English, questions the ideal of education, innovation, openness,and self-fulfillment, then points out the problems of higher education. In her lifetime, Magdalena Kay acquired her Bachelor of Arts at Harvard and PhD at UC Berkeley. Dr. Kay now teaches British and Irish literature at the University of Victoria. Kay claims that a change must be done to problems within higher education such as, the increase of tuition, the decline of college ideals, college’s true purpose, etc., in order to save the future of higher education. College education is a “work factory”, an on the job training facility, to prepare students and acquire the ideal jobs of each individual to survive in our innovative world rather than experiencing personal and intellectual growth and becoming like minded individuals throughout one’s time in college.
Louis Menand, an ivy league professor, presents his three theories of learning in his …show more content…
From a senior research assistant and senior in economic studies, Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill’s article, “Should Everyone Go To College?”, there is a huge gap with annual earnings between a high school graduate and a bachelor’s degree holder which ranges up to $15,000. Owen and Sawhill had used the Hamilton Project, research that shows that people ranging from 23 to 25 years old with bachelor’s degree acquire more money than high school graduates which increases even more by age 50, to show their readers the huge gap between high school and college graduates. With huge gaps in salaries, a degree in higher education convinces a huge amount of high school graduates to continue their studies in college then acquire a degree. The influence of money towards one’s future, promotes the movement of college towards the idea that college is all about
Louis Menand, an ivy league professor, presents his three theories of learning in his …show more content…
From a senior research assistant and senior in economic studies, Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill’s article, “Should Everyone Go To College?”, there is a huge gap with annual earnings between a high school graduate and a bachelor’s degree holder which ranges up to $15,000. Owen and Sawhill had used the Hamilton Project, research that shows that people ranging from 23 to 25 years old with bachelor’s degree acquire more money than high school graduates which increases even more by age 50, to show their readers the huge gap between high school and college graduates. With huge gaps in salaries, a degree in higher education convinces a huge amount of high school graduates to continue their studies in college then acquire a degree. The influence of money towards one’s future, promotes the movement of college towards the idea that college is all about