Men saying no to college

Submitted by el cid on Sun, 2017-06-04 15:41

Story here. Excerpts:

'John Maxwell is curious about the world and freely shares, in casual conversation, tidbits of English history. Yet he says he’ll never again set foot in a college classroom.

“I consider myself mostly self-taught and I just believe I should cut my own path in life,” said the 24-year-old Maxwell, who dropped out of Littleton’s Araphoe Community College after one semester.

Maxwell said he didn’t want to waste his parents’ money on college work that held little or no interest to him.

“I just wanted to see what I wanted to do with my life and college was never a part of that,” said Maxwell, currently an employee at a Parker liquor store. “It might cost me financially down the road, but I never really saw myself as getting rich anyway. So I don’t see it as much of a loss.”
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Some of the young men shunning campus say they don’t want to take on massive student-loan debt.

“If you don’t want to go to college you can go to a trade school and come away with something and not be on the hook for $150,000,” said 28-year-old Adam Stark, who dropped out of college and now is thriving in the music business in Denver.

Others say the campus environment has become testy, even hostile, toward men. “You definitely get the sense you are the problem,” said Maxwell. “One woman once told me that she could use statistics to determine how many of my friends were rapists.”
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A similar trend is occurring nationally. Although more people than ever are attending college, the ratio of male to female students is nearly 1:2. Compare that to 1960, when there were 1.6 males for every female graduating from a U.S. four-year college and 1.55 males for every female undergraduate, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.'

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Exclusive Test Data Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills

'Freshmen and seniors at about 200 colleges across the U.S. take a little-known test every year to measure how much better they get at learning to think. The results are discouraging.

At more than half of schools, at least a third of seniors were unable to make a cohesive argument, assess the quality of evidence in a document or interpret data in a table, The Wall Street Journal found after reviewing the latest results from dozens of public colleges and universities that gave the exam between 2013 and 2016. (See full results.)

At some of the most prestigious flagship universities, test results indicate the average graduate shows little or no improvement in critical thinking over four years.'

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2017-06-06 01:54

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/new-threatening-information-will-keep-the-evergreen-state-college-closed-on-monday-police-investigating/

'New information received by The Evergreen State College in Olympia over the weekend canceled classes on the campus yet again on Monday, the college announced in a statement late Sunday.

Police are investigating “new external threat information received over the weekend,” the statement said.

All classes during the day and evening are effectively canceled under “suspended operations,” the statement said. Staff will be present to provide services and ensure safety, and law enforcement will remain active at all hours, it added.

“A determination on when to fully re-open campus will be made as soon as possible,” the statement said.

The weekend development is the latest in a string that has led Evergreen to shut down classes several times in recent days. Classes were canceled part of Thursday and all of Friday last week. The closures came after hundreds of Evergreen students protested late last month over what some student groups and others contend are mounting racial tensions putting students of color at risk.

Last week, an anonymous caller left a message claiming he was headed to the college with a .44 Magnum “to execute as many people on the campus as I can get ahold of.”'

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2017-06-06 01:57