When it comes to grades, Cornell College in Iowa is warning professors that they shouldn’t soften their scoring for the sake of students’ emotions. A“Normalize failure. It’s part of life. It’s one way we learn,” the message says. “Sometimes students need to fail, and not be given an undeserved grade by a sympathetic faculty member.”websiteExperts propose a variety of theories to explain why today’s students might be struggling.
by the American College Health Association found that 22% of college students were diagnosed with anxiety or treated for it over the past year, up from 10% a decade before. The rate for depression rose from 10% to 17% in the same span, the survey found. “There’s this temptation to judge or criticize today’s youth,” said Laura Horne, program director at Active Minds, a college mental health group. “They’re just responding to a different and more challenging landscape with the resources we’ve given them.”
Wow... this is some seriously disingenuous reporting. They’re taking the very real concept of ‘growth through failure’ which is ancient established wisdom and wording it in such a way to trigger the anti-participation award crowd.
EastRegion I hate this
STOP CREATING PUSSYS
Oh look...another way to keep americans stupid and uneducated.
awwww poor college students. Life is so hard 😢
Looser mentality.
I never knew what depression meant until now, hmmm
Is “failure” the right word, though? It sounds permanent like there’s no more chances left. I like “setback.”
Educators to students: “Just breathe deep, eat your fellow students alive, compulsively network, chase multiple arbitrary inflexible deadlines in antiquated hyper-standardized instruction models, imperil your immediate and long-term financial survival, and, you know, chill.”
Failure has been the platform of later success since the beginning of time. Give us a break kids. Leaders/parents, give the kids better instruction.
We have lost the point. It is not okay to fail but everything is usually okay when you do. Find a different path. Succeed doing it differently...or if you do not succeed...try, try again.
Its ok, we'll accept another 80k to let you try again
Yes. Let's continue to drive America's youth towards failure..
They should be stressed: there are no pensions, most co are starting to cut back on 401k if they still have one, hc is a joke and oh yeah have implemented the racket called unlimited vacation ensuring you don’t get paid out vacation days...
And one more thing - everyone that’s twenty plus years older than me is talking about trophies. I’ve never won anything in my life and I’m guessing a majority of people in my generation haven’t either. Calm down Nance!
I failed like- 3 or 4 classes. Dust yourself off and get back at it.
It's too expensive to fail. More time in school failing and retaking classes = more $.
Bunch of absolutely freaking pansies. Just pathetic
Right, but don't hold it against them when they are looking to graduate and enter the workforce.
LOL!! Here's a thought. If you're failing, you are probably not in the right school.
Which is what the hell their parents should be teaching them from the time they are children instead of helping them avoid it. Jesus.
Just the news on social media. The hysteria of Democrats etc... that is the stress
This is exactly why I jump out my window every morning to see if I can fly yet. How else would I possibly know?
The generation that all received “participation trophies” doesn’t understand how failure works
But they expect perfection from their applicants
“Failure is normal. It’s healthy. And I think people on this panel would argue it actually is transformative,” the director of Bentley’s counseling center, told students. “If you’re not failing, it probably means that you’re not taking enough risks.” Mental Masterbation 101
Progressive policies are failing
Just so long as you accrue debt, its all good in the hood.
Something they should have learned in grade school. 🙄
Setting real world expectations, failure to speak openly/frankly, participation trophies & failure to help identify/address shortcomings have all snowballed into a generation that can’t deal w/ adversity & the stress of failure bc they’ve been sheltered from it their entire lives
Failure is never an option. Also colleges may be biased because then you have to take those classes again which means more money for the school.
Fear of failure is one small piece to story. There’s ever-increasing demand to go to grad school. Most students are just trying to survive the financial aspects without ruining their future. One failed class can cost thousands of dollars. Advisors also push for 4 year grads.
It's okay to fail, you'll be indebted for it for the rest of your life no matter what you do. CollegeStudent
That's right. I would recommend a 10-mt written recall test on main points at the end of each 50mts class. Students talk it out later with peers and thus recapitulate. Test encourages to remain active in class to do better. Try this advice from TOT methodology. Stress relief.
No, it isn't. Just ask anyone who's been fired from a job.
Let’s hope it’s the parents that get the message that it’s ok your child to not be the best at everything and that you can learn from failure.
Lmao ya cause they’re charging 600 a credit hour.
Failing (even getting a B) in undergrad means no graduate school. How is that an option for a career that requires a graduate degree?
That's easy for the colleges to say while they're indebting their students for life. No stress there. 'Sure keep failing and taking more classes... CHA-CHING! Am I right professors? Lets charge $400 for text books too while we're at it!'
Yeah, if mommy and daddy are paying your tuition. If you are paying it, failure is not an option.
Wrong. If you're getting straight A's it means you aren't taking enough risks. Failure means you didn't learn enough to grapple with the material in any serious way. Also, some classes have been made too easy to inflate grades
Do these buffoons know what college costs? One year of failure at a big school could be a $40k mistake... it’s not okay to fail it could ruin your god damn life because of how awful and expensive it is.
Tough to fail with all that debt.
Telling people that failing is not the end of the world is one thing. But telling people to take more risks is certainly not going to reduce their stress.
Average student loan debt is now $29,800. That's enough to make anyone anxious about failing.
Root problem - parents fix everything for little Billy. Give all the players trophies... But Sally feels...
This is incredibly irresponsible. Students often ARE taking extreme risks by attending college and juggling financial/family/work demands to do so. Failing at any one of them causes a domino reaction - they can end up jobless, penniless, homeless.
Poor babies
High schools start the pressure cooker by stressing grades and SAT scores. They also push kids to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives before applying to colleges. No wonder kids are anxious!
Democrats and College Professors are whacked!
You merely adopted the failure. I was born a failure.
Not at what they're charging for tuition it isn't. Repeating a class or extending your time in university has a cost attached to it. Not everyone is willing or able to pay those kind of opportunity costs.
Years and years ago education began to be structured for fitting people into boxes. The real world is full of unexpected situations and lateral solutions they're just not trained in. What happens when you don't fit into a box?
Sure it is.
Can you please tell that to FIU
Unfortunately this mindset has been engrained in children from the moment they were born. At least it’s some progress, but it may be too little too late.
'It's okay if this degree that you spent $50k on doesn't get you a livable wage.'
For once I think I am agreeing with these college admins. Although teaching them this basic skill so late in life is pretty piss poor. I guess better late than never.