It's the answer to all our problems, an answer so obvious I don't know why it never occurred to anyone before:
No more freshmen.
See? Absolutely revolutionary. No more freshmen means no more problems with freshman/sophomore retention rates, no more desperate searches for adjuncts to cover excess sections of freshman composition, no more frantic attempts to revamp the first-year program, no more hand-wringing about lack of preparation among first-year students.
Because we'll have no first-year students. We'll admit only sophomores, who will all be thoroughly prepared to dive into second-year coursework.
Brilliant! Innovative! Thinking outside the box!
But until someone takes up the cause and puts this plan into effect, I guess I'll have to go back to educating the students I have. Even the freshmen.
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And the thing about these freshmen--it's not like they show up unannounced. These colleges bring it on themselves. They actually recruit them, entice them, give them money and perks. Maybe if that all stopped then the problems could be on the way to being solved. Just sayin'.
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