Hacker And Dreifus

In the essay Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus discuss whether college is worth the price students pay. Throughout the essay Hacker and Dreifus discuss if colleges are giving good value for the investments, what individuals gain from their investment and show what it looks like for an institute to being doing their job well (Hacker and Dreifus, 179). In the essay, Hacker and Dreifus talk about how colleges take on too many roles and none of those roles are executed. These roles can be anything from the librarian, professor, and even to the university president; Hacker and Dreifus express that these roles could be executed better to help the development of a college student's experience. Some ways that these roles can be executed is by engaging with students. Coming from high school, or being a transfer student can be a huge change and all a college student wants is to be welcomed and loved, one way this could happen is by faculty engaging with the students. Engaging with a student can go from giving a friendly smile in passing to making the time to meet with a student struggling in class. One thing that colleges don’t demand anymore is good teachers. Becoming a college teacher does not require much skill so therefore college students can sometimes get the professors that do the bare …show more content…
The problem with that is that most students don’t learn to their full extent in college. Professors do not challenge students to use their minds and thus causes the students to truly not learn how to use their skills to the best of their ability until they are in real life situations. Students are supposed to gain multiple skills throughout their time at their institution. Skills such as being able to develop new ideas, work with a group of people, and figure out what you are truly passionate