Disengagement In John Leo's View About College Students

College students today have become disengaged and it started back in 1995 when students started to gravitate more towards partying and watching TV, instead of studying and writing papers thinking that their professors would excuse it and give them a considerably good grade. More than ever today, that statement is true across various campuses- but it has grown worse throughout the past nineteen years. In this paper I will be discussing John Leo’s view about college students and comparing it to today’s students and then I will be discussing one characteristic that college students have involving disengagement in school.
Back in 1987, college students took going to college as a blessing and with every class they had, they would work their hardest to get the grades needed to head
As the years went by more and more students began to disengage and not work as hard in school. In John Leo’s article “No Books, please; we’re students” a study was done by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, stating students are becoming more and more disengaged from the “academic experience.” Meaning students in 1987 compared to students in 1995 and even today show a decline in studying, working on homework, and researching for their papers, this shows that students have become lazy and less willing to work for grades, they have the attitude of the teacher owes me this grade whether I do the work or not. Leo also mentions in his article that students are developing into this “easily bored” and less motivated to work society and that about “thirty-five” percent of students spent at least six hours of studying or doing the homework that was assigned, which is about forty-four percent less than it was in 1987. Furthermore in an interview with Henry Bauer, a chemistry professor at Virginia Tech says students have taken a turn for the worse and taken for granted the opportunity they have to go to school. Bauer also states many students come to college expecting college to be