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These articles always focus on liberal arts and private universities, which is completely uninteresting to me. I'd like to know the historic development of publ

• nkassis 15y ago
  Don't forget science degrees. But it's interesting to note that engineering degrees cost more than liberal arts degrees to universities yet in general students in engineering are paying the same. It's changing now, where engineering cost per hour are going up but liberal arts students are still subsidizing engineering students.
• scott_s 15y ago
  This is my common complaint when the issue comes up. From the article, In a typical semester, one third of the students Arum and Roksa followed for their recent book, Academically Adrift, did not take “any courses that required more than forty pages of reading per week” and half did not take “a single course that required more than twenty pages of writing.” I had semesters that were nothing but math, physics and computer science and they fall into the above category. There was reading in those courses, but it was mainly in a textbook, and 40 pages out of a physics textbook is a lot of material. Likewise, I didn't turn in any writing assignments for these classes, but I turned in problem sets and programming projects on a regular basis.