That’s the point of this USA Today article reporting on the findings of a recent book, Academically Adrift.
Some students enter college eager to study, but many others enter college with scant interest in academic work. They’ve been lured in by easy money and the prospect of four or more years of fun — “Beer and Circus” as Professor Murray Sperber entitled a book 10 years ago. For great numbers of young Americans, college is not so much higher education as it is LONGER education.
