May 1, 2002 1 min read

Are students slackers? Dear Editor:

Before long we will be telling college students they do not even have to show up for class.

Simple assignments and compositions will probably go by the boards as well as any in depth reading and writing projects. The schools should truly be taken to task for calling themselves a university.

In the ’60s our goal was to finish our education in three years, with many of us graduating with 132 credits. The colleges were very good at providing a wide range of class times so that 18 and 21 credit semesters were the norm.

Students who took 15 credits or less were slackers and just what the modern day colleges want to keep their revenue up.

The next thing you know a master’s degree in the state of Pennsylvania will be two field trips and a clambake. This decision to reduce the number of credits required to earn a degree may have just taken a lot of our students right out of the job market as their degrees will become less valuable and become second place to more challenging programs.

I can’t believe our old chancellor Dr. McCormick would have ever let this happen.

Cliff Springer

Shippensburg