On 4/16/07, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quartieles don't matter. Leisure matters. Assumptions about post-college matter. I thought I made that clear. If the figures are available, the figures that _might_ make a difference is proportion of students who work more than 20 hours a week while taking a full load of courses. Also -- the attack on students (and higher education) that began in the '70s went under the heading of "raising standards." I'm not sure how to get that into any available social numbers. Carrol
not only do a majority of today's students work more, over 40% attend part-time and about 40% are enrolled at night...they make up a large portion of what educrats call 'non-traditional' students - translated, women, minorities, and older (in non-educratese, over 24 yrs of age) folks...such students are most likely found in nonresidential, urban, and community colleges... so college is a less central part of a larger number of student lives, adding to the difficulties always present in campus organizing because the composition of student bodies is always changing...student activists tend to live near campus and outside their parents' homes, and they are generally full-time students without the responsibility of parenthood... the so-called 'non-traditional' student has less time for reflection as the over-all college experience is impoverished in comparison to the 'traditional' one... michael hoover
