Cathy Davidson raises exactly the right question in the debate about whether students should take notes by hand or with laptops in class. The real issue, Davidson writes, is that instructors should be working to avoid lecture and instead engage students in active learning.
This fall’s enrollment figures contained much for the University of Kansas to be proud of, and the university rightly bragged about that.
Freshman enrollment has grown for five years in a row, and the incoming class is made up of nearly 23 percent minority students.
By Doug Ward
Add another lock to the ivory tower.
A majority of college students say it is acceptable to shout down a speaker they disagree with, and 20 percent accept the idea of resorting to violence to keep an undesirable speaker from campus, a poll from the Brookings Institution finds.
The headlines about KU’s fall enrollment sounded much like a Minnesotan’s assessment of winter: It could be worse.
Indeed it could have been, given the uncertainties brought on by the coronavirus and rumblings among students that they might sit out the year if their courses were online.
The latest enrollment report for universities in the Kansas regents system (down 1.5%) seems worth little more than a shrug. Longer term, though, the higher education trends in Kansas will require considerable attention – and action.
KU’s big jump in freshman enrollment this academic year ran counter to broader trends in higher education.