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Dustin from YS...Congrats on your choice of Antioch College! You sound like a perfect match for the kind of active and wide-ranging educational experience you'll enjoy at Antioch.
- Bill [Antioch '74].

I have gotten degrees, a Bachelor's and a Master's. I noticed my former teachers offering less work than when I took their classes. Also, I have been teaching my own college courses for the past year and a half. I noticed students on their cell phones and, in general, it seems their attention spans are shorter than ever. As teachers, it seems we are always searching for ways to make things more exciting and engaging in order to cater to students when they seem to put less and less work into school.

I worked part time during high school and college. Full time in the summer months. I remember like it was yesterday, looking at my first check and seeing all the deductions. It's too bad that more students don't work part time. You really don't get a true understanding of the real world when you are just a student.

As a student in the 60s, we on the East Coast protested a war while our colleagues on the West Coast protested Shakespeare was interrupting their hang ten time, ergo, studying was too hard on their social lives. Since it was once, maybe still is, that education progress traveled east, I've witnessed the contintuing dumbing down of America by not challenging the mind beginning in grammar school. Modern math is counting with the fingers instead of memorizing multiplication tables? My modern math class in the 7th grade was learning about computers and plane geometry. Today, as we have our kids learn for meeting standard tests demands, reading books is passe so they can learn how to write! HUH? Yes, in Mass., 4th grade, no book reports. As one guest said, it does not begin in college but in grammar school. Since I did not hear the whole program, I do not know if there was any mention that employers are teaching remedial writing and speaking to their new hires who have no knowledge on how to speak or write effectively. Talk about losing the leadership honors.

Yes - they study less because college now is easier. Fewer classes (credits) are required to earn a degree than it was 20, and even 10 years ago. When I was an undergraduate a degree required around 134 credits, now most public universities only require 122, and in Texas, there is talk of dropping that down to 110! So - fewer classes, less studying required. Employers in the sciences are noticing, I am a prof. and we are getting complaints that our current students do not know as much as students graduating 10 years ago, and are not qualified. Yes, we tell them, that is because they are taking 3-4 classes less in their major than they were 10 years ago. We are doing what the state tells us.

I am a college teacher and I also study the history of college life as a scholar. First, I wonder if the statistic cited is lifted from the book Academically Adrift. I read this book and found the authors' historical work very shallow. For instance, they cite one book to make the claim that the first college students were the progeny of the elite. This is simply not true. Some of the today's elite colleges, such as Amherst, were founded to prepare underprivileged students (men, in this case) to be teachers or clergymen in the ever expanding west. These young men didn't inherit the farm, needed something to do, by and large were not privileged, and were not "scholarly types" per se. If we are going to have a legitimate conversation about the decline of college students' study habits, we need more history and more than one statistic from one study. In short, one sound bite, and an alarmist one at that, is not enough (that's my soundbite). Furthermore, it's not a new phenomenon for the habits of the newer generation of young people to be criticized by the previous generations, so those jumping to conclusions based on their "observations," (even if so called experts as longtime college teachers, myself included) need to consider their biases. As one more example, I just learned (in a primary source, not a book) about a coalition among Chicago area leaders in the late 1940s who were alarmed that young people were reading comic books. I think today's adult leaders might be thrilled if observing young people reading anything that is not "just" on a screen (probably because it's something THEY did). Perhaps tomorrow's elders will be thrilled to learn that their students are texting. How quaint. At least least the kids are writing, not "just" zapping text from their head.

There are many, many less demanding majors available today than in1961. The few sound bites offered on air were from the newer, less demanding perspective (film school, interpretive dance?).
Talk with an engineering or physics major. There is still much studying going on...where necessary. Those degrees received without having to study lead to higher unemployment struggles.

I am a student at Antioch College, Yellow Springs Ohio, studying environmental science with a minor in french, and I spend more than 15 hours a week studying during on campus quarters. I think it depends on the college. If colleges need money, then they'll pass anyone. My school is offering free tuition, AND YOU WORK FOR THAT FREE TUITION!

I finished my undergrad in 2009 and just finished my Master's a few weeks ago. I never had time to study; throughout both degrees I worked at least one full-time job, sometimes two! It was the only way to attend school and still be able to eat and have a place to live. I think this economy requires most students to work while in school, leaving less time to study and really have a complete student experience.

This just demonstrates that there are many people in college that do not belong there. Everyone should NOT go to college. One does not a degree to work in Walmart, tend bar, etc.

After Reagan's 'Morning in America,' the US population decided to 'dumb down,' rest on their laurels, stay on a permanent coffee (or whatever) break and borrow to 'have it all.'

30 years of chanting 'I'm the grandest tiger in the jungle' has created the situation that in this grand land of massive underemployment and massive debt, we look to immigrants to fill positions from cleaning toilets to leading our scientific inquiries.

"What? Me Study?... I'm the dumbest tiger in the jungle!"

I find it troubling at best when we first blame the youth for things that we label as "slacking." As someone who did his undergrad before the online explosion and masters afterward, I can tell you that it's a lot easier to find the right information (yes, Mr. Hockenberry, the _right_ information) now than it was 16 years ago. Many programs have adjusted, like my masters program in which the requirements for a graduate thesis are far and away higher than they were 10 years ago. It's not just information, it's also the ability to process it. Think databases and GIS.

Has anyone thought that, perhaps, the faculty has not kept up with the times and is simply teaching the same syllabus as they were decades ago? If we don't ask more of our students at a time when the status quo is easier to attain, then how do we expect them to put in as much time as they did ten years ago. This whole debate smacks of the 1980s quip that the word processor "writes your term paper for you" and I find it annoying to say the least.

It really depends on which school you look at. I bet Harvard has the same level of studiousness as it did 50 years ago, maybe even more. One reason that the Ohio University professor might be noticing fewer studious students at his institution is this: In the past, I'm guessing, top students from Ohio had more of an incentive to go to college closer to home (lack of cell phones, internet, Southwest airlines, etc.), and chose Ohio University even if it had a lower reputation than say, Yale. This would be particularly true for middle- or lower-class students and minorities. Today, top private colleges across the nation are using amazing scholarships and affirmative action to drain more top talent away from regional public universities. Also, today you can attend a top college thousands of miles from your home while still flying home easily, and phoning/emailing/facebooking your friends and family from back home on a daily basis. Finally, fifty years ago, some kid from Ohio might never have even heard of, say, Williams College, or some other great private institution, and never would've thought to apply. Today, you can look on any college's website and decide if it's a fit for you. In sum, great students are all clustering at the same great colleges. I think this could be why the Ohio University professor is seeing lower caliber students at his institution.

In the discussion of grade "evolution", part of the equation is missing. One of the things I experienced as a returning adult university student at age 50, was the "badgering" of instructors by students to change grades on a given assignment/test. Pressure is put even on full professors, and "student evaluations" are taken into account by educational institutions in the management of teaching staff, who are in turn relying on certain criteria for funding and financial contributions. I see this as direct result of the loss of respect for expertise, intelligence, education, science etc etc. In other words, what used to be called the "dumbing down" of America has now become an overinflated respect for the ability of the common person to judge a subject of which they have no particular knowledge. It probably has to do with 24 hour access to "knowledge" and the ability of a wide segment of the population to contribute opinions which may then be accepted as fact.