College Freshmens’ Minds Rarely Expand
It is time to 5retire the ideal of the first year in college as a roller-coaster ride of exploded prejudices, mind expansion and self-discovery, writes James M. Lang, an English professor at Assumption College in Massachusetts in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Freshmen today are simply too practical.
Mr. Lang’s own experiences with students dovetail with a recent survey by Tim Clydesdale, an associate professor of sociology at the College of New Jersey, which found that freshmen…
