It is a rude awakening to be hit smack dab in the face with the realization that a lot of people just don’t understand much about higher education beyond signing up and paying for classes. This is what happened to me this week.
I’m a college professor in addition to a grad school coach. Every semester I see over one hundred students in my courses. I teach mostly introductory courses – those filled with first and second year students. These are students who are still deciding what they want to do with their life, who may change their major once or twice or three or four times before they settle on a career path, and those have not a single solitary soul who has ever been to college in their family.
Misinformation, Misrepresentation, and Assumptions
I come face to face with a lot of misinformation and assumptions that unwittingly lead people astray in their pursuit of higher education. Most of my students are on the road to earning an associates degree. Many students have aspirations to move beyond, some even expressing interest in a masters or Ph.D., and there are tons of questions on how to get from HERE to THERE in less time, less money, and with the least confusion. Without a reliable source of information, students are left to draw their own conclusions (some of them incorrect) about college and life after college, especially their careers. [click to continue…]
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