Profs blast lazy first-year students

Profs blast lazy first-year students

Wikipedia generation is lazy and unprepared for university’s rigours, survey of faculty says.

University professors feel their first-year students are less mature, rely too much on Wikipedia and “expect success without the requisite effort,” says a province-wide survey to be released today.

And guess what? In this case, many students agree with their profs.

I think we fail our students when we don’t have high enough expectations, and there is no opportunity to learn from failure. I want to support students and I want them to succeed. The only way they can really do that is by raising the bar and helping them figure out how to meet higher expectations. With the decline in the economy, I’m sure that the increased push for people who can’t get jobs to try to get into higher education will give us the opportunity to do that. Supportive competition isn’t a bad thing.