The Three-Year Degree: An Idea Whose Time Will Pass
Document Type
Editorial
Source
Liberal Education
Volume
96
Issue
4
First Page
52
Last Page
56
Publication Date
Fall 2010
Department
Office of the President
Abstract
As the leader of the nation’s only campus dedicated exclusively to early college, I head an institution that ensures students graduate sooner than the national average. As an academic who pursued my graduate work at Oxford University—an institution that confers most of its undergraduate degrees in three years—I have had direct observation of a successful model of a three-year degree program. Thus, I seem a likely candidate to embrace the recently touted argument for the three-year bachelor’s degree. And yet I have grave doubts about establishing the three-year college degree as the new American standard. ~article excerpt~
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