In my recent post on National Review Online’s Phi Beta Cons I discuss a new Harris Poll survey of first year college students sponsored by several organizations “concerned with “improving support for the mental health and emotional well-being of America’s college students of color.” The survey found that “Caucasian students are more likely than African American and Hispanic students to say they feel more academically prepared than their peers during their first term of college (50% vs. 36% and 39%)” and that “African American and Hispanic students are more likely than Caucasian students to say that it seems like everyone has college figured out but them (52% and 49% vs. 41%).”
But, I asked, “Is feeling less “academically prepared” for college than one’s peers necessarily a mental health issue if in fact one is less academically prepared?”
“Perhaps,” I concluded, after noting that preferentially admitted minority students are in fact less “academically prepared” than their un-preferred Asian and white peers, “those most in need of mental health assistance are all those higher education officials and their supporters who believe that it is possible to admit less qualified students without making them feel less qualified.”
Did the Harris Poll just provide the script for
ALL under achieving students, already quick to point at
“other” for their poor performance on “the curve”?
I can’t WAIT for the protests
“We’re mentally and emotionally lacking!
That’s why we’re slacking!
Get USED to it!”
I’m thinking a Gub’mint Mandate for “Oleanna” should be
in Junior year in HIGH school, rather than Freshman year in higher education. BEFORE the application/loan process (and fees) begins.
Of course, SOME (students AND “advisors”)would deem it an instructional, rather than cautionary, tale.
Ah yes, the college co-ed petition campaign to repeal the SUFFERAGE of women…..
Of course, I could be wrong.