![]() ![]() ![]() It had its attractions, as did the others, but he feared being locked into an academic path - which at this point is film studies - that could easily change as his education progressed. He soon eliminated one possibility, in Boston. This was the first of many major choices he'd have to make and it had to be his own. My wife cautioned me, though, not to express a preference because it was, after all, Adam's decision. I'm easily swayed, and after each visit I was sure we had found the ideal college, one that would allow Adam to thrive and blossom into a well-rounded, clear-thinking individual. Determining this called for visits to all three finalists, and over the next few weeks the three of us sat in on classes listened to teachers, administrators and students extol the virtues of their schools and inspected dormitories and prowled campuses. He next had to decide which of the three he felt was the best "fit" for him, a term I don't really understand but that colleges seem to use to describe some mystical confluence of their needs and prospective students' wants. The final tally: He was accepted at three, wait-listed at three, rejected at two.īut there was more, I soon found. In the end, Adam applied to eight colleges. We then winnowed out the ones that seemed too easy, too hard, too small, too big, too near, too far - too skewed in any way. He, and my wife, had other methods in mind and, without further consideration of my idea, we moved on.įrom our initial list, we ruled out any school that required a student to declare a major before his junior year, which, in this unsettled world, struck us as absurd. My first thought, that he gain some worldly experience and perspective by joining the Marine Corps for a couple of years to go shoot "insurgents," was quickly rejected. He was as adrift as any 17-year-old should be. We wanted him to get a broad-based liberal arts education that would teach him to think - not what to think, but how to think critically, to equip him for what I find to be, despite my 59 years of experience, a bewildering world.Īdam had worked hard all through high school, but without a specific goal in mind. Our labors began a year ago when my wife started researching schools - through official websites, word-of-mouth, online parent and student forums, websites that compared colleges, "best of" books and myriad other ways - to select 10 or 15 that seemed suitable for our son Adam. ![]() As Frederick Siff, UC VP & Chief Information Officer notes, "The landline probably will be obsolete in five years or so, and we want to be in the forefront of new technology.The road to that moment of mutual acceptance, as it turned out, was longer and more winding than I had ever imagined. ![]() The University of Cincinnati is about to offer free " Bearcat Phones" to roughly 4,000 new students in cahoots with Cincinnati Bell.īottom line? Even though Arbitron now surveys college dorms that utilize private landlines, this trend toward "CPO" students reinforces the need to speed up their policy changes, and make sure these young listeners are included in ratings surveys. And some schools are pushing cell phones along even faster. Case in point (free registration required): the University of Scranton spent about $200K annually on landlines, but is now directing those dollars into its campus cable TV network and other tech upgrades. Why? Because nine of ten students have cell phones, making landlines superfluous.Īccording to reports, most colleges are considering saving the money they spend on landlines and investing it in other technologies. From the "Cell Phone Only File" comes a report that more and more colleges are yanking landlines out of dormitories. ![]()
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