Yesteryouth
People who don't work with college students on a regular basis often stereotype them as irresponsible party animals who seek the easy road to a degree with the least effort possible.
Students spend less time studying than did students in 1960. Research finds student course evaluations contribute to the dumbing down of courses as professors play to the audience for good ratings that will keep them, and their departments, in business.
Yesteryouth of the 60s, didn’t have e-books with hyperlinks sending the reader to related pieces of information within the book or online. There were no online databases or resources, if you wanted to read a research article, you had to go to the library, sort through a catalog of index cards, and eventually hope the book or article was where it was supposed to be, often, it was not. Then you had to go to the next article you wanted to read based on that one, and so on, sometimes taking an hour just to find that one source. The extraneous time wasted in the search for an article now can be used for actual reading, research, and writing.
College students in today's world are striving to make it in a world that offers some inhospitable choices. Do they work to raise money to stay in school or spend time volunteering to boost their resumes? Do they load up on credits so they can graduate earlier or take a normal credit load and face costlier student loans? Sure, I've seen students bargain for grades, making me feel like a customer service manager denying a refund, or granting one, as the case may be. But their desire for grades comes out of real-world pressures to be competitive in the job market.
Psychology Today
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