How would YOU revolutionize the Higher Education system?

higher education issues : I would like your opinions on the good and bad of of the US Higher Education system, since I have to give an essay on how I would change the system. Now, I don’t know much about College and such, since I’m only a college prep student. So that’s why I’m asking you college kids and older on what you think about out Higher Education system now. I just need to know what is good, and what’s bad about it, and what you would do to make it better. Thanks

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Answer by mattc17
I would have the High Schools better prep students for the College class. When I first stepped into a lecture hall at the University of Oklahoma I was shocked. It was nothing like going to high school, the teaching and structure of class was way different!

Answer by Viper
I work in US University as a computer admin, but did my degree in the UK system.

Here is some bad things I see. This may help a little, but others may post better answers.

Bad.
Cost – the cost to complete 4 years at a US college is extremely high. In the UK it used to be free (was for me), but then they started charging, but at public type colleges it was only about k a semester. Much much less than what it is in the US.

Dorms – in the US if you live on campus in a dorm, you almost always have to share a room with another student. I hate that. I like my privacy. In the UK you never ever share a room with another. You get your own dorm room.

Food cost: The cost of food is not really reduced much if at all at US colleges. In the UK, it’s always reduced to students.

Book cost. College books cost over 0 each! That is crazy. I would reduce the costs of these books for sure.

EDIT> I suggest you repost this question under the Higher Ed section – you probably will get better answers there from the people that work in higher ed.

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