Phi Beta Cons

Dealing With Weak, Unmotivated Students

An increasing percentage of the students entering college are weak and unmotivated. (The culprit, I maintain, is our woefully ineffective system of “public education,” but that’s beside the point here.) What can professors do to get such students to concentrate and take college work seriously?

In today’s Pope Center piece, edited by Jane Shaw, five professors who have confronted that challenge give their views.

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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