The problem is one of scope. Research opportunities are also small. Many students who want to do research can't be accommodated. He had no small classes as a freshman, and couldn't land a spot in any research project. Need called 'urgent' Sykes is troubled by undergraduate research programs designed to turn students into specialists too soon.
Universities do graduate school well.
They do undergraduate school poorly. Meanwhile, required courses remain large, with hundreds of students jamming halls to hear lectures on psychology, biology or chemistry. But this is an urgent agenda now. Learning by inquiry is essential. We need to shift from the concept of students as receivers of information to a culture of inquirers.