[1044] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: U.S. News: Elizabeth Shin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rax)
Sat Feb 9 20:36:36 2002
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Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 20:24:19 -0500
From: rax <rax@MIT.EDU>
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"In response to the task force report, MIT is putting
together support teams of physicians, other healthcare
professionals, and experienced counselors to spend time in the
dorms, socializing with the students and keeping an eye on them."
...to what does this quote from the aricle below (which didn't work for me:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020218/education/18education.htm die) refer?
this doesn't sound like the RLA program, and i can't think of anything else
implemented since then...
...anyone know? is this just total lip service, or?
"At the same time, colleges must also negotiate the
legal and emotional pitfalls of caring for their charges, not children
but not yet fully adults. "This is an age group that's tricky," says
DeWitt Crosby, a psychologist at Davidson College in North
Carolina. "They are adults by law, but they're still dealing with
making decisions on their own." "
i think it's important for people to realize (though i realize that i am for
the most part preaching to the choir; i really don't know who _to_ tell) that
college students are not all "not children but not yet fully adults;" college
students _range_ from children to adults. There are some whose parents still
do their laundry, and take care of their forms, and even help manage their
schedules; and then there are the students who are working so that they can
eat, because they don't get any support whatsoever. Most are in between, yes.
But some are reasonably adults, and some are as far as i can tell children,
and some are in between. Were i asked to suggest a trend, i would suggest that
recently MIT and other colleges have been admitting more children and fewer
adults; however, the way they are dealing with this is, rather than helping
their students grow into adults, treating their students like children such
that they stay that way.
of course, i don't know how to help students grow into adults. but if hand-
holding didn't work the first 18 years, that might suggest something.
rax
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 07:20:17PM -0500, Chienta Wu wrote:
> Look, the case has hit national mainstream!
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> http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biz/e_friend.php3?goto=%2Fusnews%2Fissue%2F020218%2Feducation%2F18education.htm
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