- 11:53 AM jasonryoung - watching SNL sketch to set-up this session-hilarious
- 11:55 AM jasonryoung - it has troy bolton in it
- 11:59 AM jasonryoung - dr. mark bauerlein is speaking now
- 11:59 AM jasonryoung - the first year of college students is crucial
- 12:00 PM jasonryoung - he is talking on the hurdle of the freshmen year
- 12:01 PM jasonryoung - 60% have achieved their degrees within six years
- 12:01 PM jasonryoung - many who drop out are during or after the first year of college
- 12:07 PM jasonryoung - mark is pausing and doing a brief q&a with audience
- 12:09 PM jasonryoung - in high school, many teachers help facilitate the fact that students are better than they are and then they hit college and it is different
- 12:10 PM jasonryoung - the messages students get include you can do anything, but it’s not true
- 12:10 PM jasonryoung - students that get a’s in school feel they will be fine in college but often times that is not true
- 12:10 PM jasonryoung - the actuality is proven in numbers
- 12:12 PM jasonryoung - 29% of 4-year college students are in remedial classes in math, english, science
- 12:12 PM jasonryoung - 43% of 2-year college students are in remedial classes in math, english, science
- 12:13 PM jasonryoung - nearly 4 out of 5 students in remedial courses had a gpa in high school of 3.0 or higher
- 12:14 PM jasonryoung - what happened?
- 12:14 PM jasonryoung - most high school english teachers have a range of students. they often focus on the lower half because they need the most help
- 12:15 PM jasonryoung - the better students in the class tend not to be challenged in that senior year of high school
- 12:15 PM jasonryoung - deficiencies don’t show up until they enter the next level
- 12:17 PM jasonryoung - the question is not if you’re smart enough. it’s expectations established by others.
- 12:18 PM jasonryoung - btw-mark recently wrote a book called, the dumbest generation. interesting title. provocative. this book addresses the current generation.
- 12:20 PM jasonryoung - many professors are in the publish or perish system
- 12:20 PM jasonryoung - they make more money when the publish books few people read
- 12:20 PM jasonryoung - there is not an incentive to invest in students
- 12:21 PM jasonryoung - in fact, he just said that students are often a problem to professors getting published
- 12:22 PM jasonryoung - in college, the average hours needed for homework is about 25 per week
- 12:23 PM jasonryoung - most spend significantly less than this amount
- 12:23 PM jasonryoung - most high school students spend 1 hour or less per week. this is a self-disclosed survey finding.
- 12:26 PM jasonryoung - average college student watches television 2 hours and 41 minutes per day
- 12:26 PM jasonryoung - if the television is off, your retention rate increases
- 12:27 PM jasonryoung - there is the pressure to do extracurricular activities-more volunteerism, internships, clubs, etc.
- 12:28 PM jasonryoung - time spent interacting with professors…most do not speak with them outside the classroom. roughly 20% of first year college students have contact with professor outside classroom.
- 12:28 PM jasonryoung - this impacts dropout and retention
- 12:32 PM jasonryoung - students want to feel like they belong “here” and greater engagement with professors will influence this
- 12:41 PM jasonryoung - if faculty incentives aren’t there to engage with students, professors are not going to do it
- 12:42 PM jasonryoung - are students happy/satisfied with their relationship w/their professors?
- 12:43 PM jasonryoung - they rated their professors fairly high
- 12:44 PM jasonryoung - this reveals they have low expectations
- 12:45 PM jasonryoung - a little q&a with tim elmore and mark bauerlein
- 12:47 PM jasonryoung - headed to lunch with tim elmore, jerry hurley and the team from lifechurch.tv
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