Danielle Douglas-Gabriel's Analysis

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There are many people each day asking themselves the same question “ What should we do to improve colleges?” and they can't really find an answer to their question, but if you look harder and put more thoughts to it you can always find something to improve about your college no matter if you think there might be nothing wrong with it and it's working the way it should. There always will be a flaw you just need to look harder into it. In the reading by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel “Why so many students are spending six years getting a college degree” ,Douglas-Gabriel explains how sometimes it takes student longer to graduate because of colleges add to many unnecessary degree requirements to keep students in school for much longer than needed. Douglas-Gabriel …show more content…

In her reading she mentions that “ Most colleges and universities raise their tuition and fees each year, while financial aid stays nearly constant” by adding unnecessary degree requirements students don't or are not able to get their degree in the 4 year time line the thought they will be able too. The loner students are in school studying they more they depth is growing. “ About 20 percent of college students are enrolled in remedial classes,” this means that the students who are taking this classes have to work extra hard to pass the classes to get to the regular level. Additionally most student carry a full course load on top of work and family, in many cases managing everything cause stress and might cause you to not have time to study enough and fail a certain course that you might not even need but is required for you to have which leaves you for another semester or a year in college. Throughout Douglas-Gabriel's reading she talks about “A recent Education Department study found that the average graduate had accumulated 138.4 credits by the time they received a bachelor’s degree, when 120 is usually sufficient.” this means that the 18.4 other credits were never meant to help the students get any help to their degree so why were they required to take the. It was just a waist of the students time and money to get them

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