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College students should study more
My crankiest old guy take yet
But although it lacked any literal nuclear explosions or dramatic political speeches, the film wrestled with one of the major social themes of our times: a kind of structural transformation in the value proposition of elite education that I think about whenever I see a new campus controversy. I was inclined to agree at the time, and I think Arum and Roksa blundered with a 2014 followup book that specifically pegged the economic struggles of then-young millennials on shortcomings in their college education rather than macroeconomic circumstances. The way things have shaken out, though, is that STEM departments tend to have a lot of grant money and don’t particularly want to deal with annoying undergraduates, so they put rigorous courses on the board to weed out weaker students.
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