
We live in a generation where if you tell a college student to not do something, he will do. If you tell him to do, he never does.
Someone has to take responsibility to address the challenge that fresh graduates face when they complete their higher education. Employers are unsatisfied that many graduates they hire are deficient in basic skills such as writing, problem-solving and critical thinking.
Today, the responsibility for preventing student failure falls more on the shoulders of educators than the students they serve. Increasing graduation rates and levels of educational attainment will accomplish little, if students do not learn something of lasting value.
While some college leaders are making serious efforts to improve the quality of teaching, many others seem content with their existing programs. Better feedback and rapport building with a student is even more important in order to give undergraduates a more accurate sense of how much progress they’ve made and what more they need to accomplish before they graduate.
Promising ways of engaging students actively, identifying the challenges they are having in learning the material, adjusting teaching methods and bridging the gap between a student & an employer are the need of the hour for a college student.
Faculty members must be better trained other than the academic subjects. Being chiefly engaged in teaching, they might also be more inclined to experiment with new and better methods of instruction if they were encouraged to do so thus creating a better environment for students.