It's when I saw how much they charged per year that I decided to spell the title that way (but I'm not complaining):
"Wesleyan bucks trend, lets students graduate in 3 years" by Marcella Bombardieri | Globe Staff April 06, 2014
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — They’ve given up on studying abroad, taking a summer vacation, or getting a full night’s sleep. Cookies or a granola bar on the run often constitute meals. Friends give them guilt trips for skipping out on the senior year bonding experience.
But for a few students at Wesleyan University seeking to earn a degree in three years, there will be a big payoff: saving tens of thousands of dollars in tuition.
Wesleyan, a liberal arts college sometimes called a “little Ivy,” appears to be the most elite school yet to embrace the idea of helping students cut down on the exorbitant cost of a college education by speeding up their journey to graduation.
The sheer enormity of tuition prices has helped the concept of a three-year bachelor’s degree gain a foothold in recent years at a few dozen schools around the country, including the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Lesley University.
See: Kicking Around UMass
Because of the drinking, right?
Globe must blackout because there are somethings they seem to forget completely.
The number of students choosing to participate remains tiny at most of the colleges, because of the difficulty of doing so and the enduring allure of four years in the ivory tower. And some educators worry that three years isn’t enough time for young people to find themselves intellectually or emotionally. But the endorsement from Wesleyan (sticker price $61,000 a year) may yet help popularize the idea.
Setting aside the whole student loan scam, I'm sure the money is needed for the college presidents, administrators, and sports coaches. It sure isn't going to professors or adjunct instructors.
This whole public relations promo for the elite of Boston may be fine for some, but I'm just so not interested anymore. So not into the propaganda pre$$ narrative and pri$m of a perspective regarding anywhere or anything. It sounds strange, but it's mostly $tatu$ quo agenda-pu$hing.
The university has an unusually well-suited advocate for the three-year degree, president Michael S. Roth, who himself graduated from Wesleyan in three years in 1978, when it was permitted but not promoted, to save his family money. Roth doesn’t expect the three-year track to ever become hugely popular, but wants it to be considered a normal option, one that involves sacrifices but also the opportunity to leap more quickly into graduate school or other exciting pursuits....
And the sacrifice involved?
Danielle Gamady is a first-year Wesleyan student from Brooklyn currently taking six classes to position her to graduate in three years. Although she sees the three-year degree as her best option, she thinks the administration is using the option as a way to distract from its failure to make the college equally accessible to low- and middle-income students.
One recent afternoon, she brought two cookies and coffee to Spanish class because she didn’t have time for a real lunch. “Eating’s not as much of a priority,” she said....
After the whole government campaign about eating healthy foods, too.
At least it will be exciting.
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Oh, wow, my report card says I failed you and didn't even cover much of the material or attend many classes. $orry.
