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87% of students say college is too hard but refuse to study more

While 87 percent of students said that college is “too difficult,” the same percentage are studying less than 10 hours per week, a new survey found.

Intelligent.com, which regularly surveys college students, gathered data from 1,000 respondents, all of whom attend four-year colleges.

“The vast majority of students (87%) say they have felt at least one of their college classes was too challenging and should have been made easier by the professor,” the survey found.

However, 71 percent of students spend fewer than 10 hours per week studying, and a total of 87 percent of students spend fewer than 15 hours per week hitting the books.

The survey organization found that about one-third of students who think they work hard fail to put in more than five hours a week into schoolwork. “But of the 64% who say they put in a lot of effort, one-third also say they spend less than 5 hours a week studying and on homework,” the group reported.

A former professor and longtime educational and cultural commentator said that the decline of educational standards goes back decades.

“These results say we’re near the bottom of a slope we began to roll down in the sixties,” Stanley Kurtz, an author at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a National Review contributing editor, told The College Fix via email.

Kurtz has taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.

“Students first need to adjust their expectations about the nature and purpose of education,” Kurtz said, responding to the minimal effort put in by students, despite many thinking they are working hard.

“In a proper college classroom, students come to understand that there aren’t enough hours in a day or years in a lifetime to drink in or grapple with the choices offered by the greatest pieces of literary, philosophical, or religious thought,” he said.

“Professors who are ‘difficult’ in this way should be rewarded with promotions, prizes, and praise,” Kurtz said. “Colleges should compete to hire them. Administrators who discourage, punish, or dismiss professors who are ‘difficult’ in this way—like the professor of organic chemistry fired by NYU—should themselves be dismissed and replaced.”

… Kurtz also expressed some concern about how this trend could hinder the future workforce. “Obviously, students coddled with reduced expectations for work in college will fail in the workforce, or corrupt it, or both,” Kurtz said. “That said, the solution requires more than demands for increased work and discipline—although that is certainly part of the picture.”

But wait, there’s more!

Students overestimate post-grad earnings by 100%

The 2022 survey of 1,000 undergraduates asked them about their projected incomes.

“College students expect to make $103,880 in their first job, but the average starting salary is actually only $55,260,” reported the survey by Real Estate Witch and Clever Real Estate.

However, students in journalism programs were the “most delusional,” according to the survey; they overestimated their future salary by 139 percent.

And yes, still more!

Following killing on campus, University of New Mexico students demand more cops

The resolution is the latest example of students calling for increased policing in the face of violence on campus or in the surrounding areas.

A June 2021 shooting near the University of Minnesota, for example, led to greater policing and a 38 percent crime drop.

Nearly 400 professors at the University of Chicago, located in the city’s South Side, also demanded more safety patrols and cops after multiple murders of affiliates, including an alumnus and a student.

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