I have taken the liberty to pick and choose those statements that might effect MCCD most directly. Although there is danger in giving too much credibility to the thoughts of two writers, there is more danger in assuming the status quo exists. Please share some ideas with us. Diversity has never been greater in ethnicity, attitude, performance, and rewards. Women outperform men and soar into graduate school.
Young adults seem to be turning away from the intellectual and philosophical concerns.
Today, the consensus of older generations is that 13ers got an inferior education and are equipped with inferior skills. Most 13er college students have continued to confront the consequences of reforms that, to their eye, have mainly worsened the learning environment. On today's campuses, adults seem only thinly in charge, crime festers, students are left to fend for themselves, and any concept of core curriculum is either unmentioned or controversial. Finding little guidance from a faculty that would rather be authoring learned articles than tutoring unlearned students, 13ers are often confused about what courses they should take and what academic preparation they need to enter an uncertain economy. Finally upon graduation, they hear their generation called dumb, unfit, inferior.