A couple of items in the morning news were interesting and thought provoking. Two lacrosse teams, the U-Albany women and the Siena men earned their way into the NCAA tournaments. The initial games are scheduled for May 15th. This is the same day that both institutions are having their 2011 commencements. The Senior students on these two teams will be unable to attend their own graduation excercises.
The other story was about college students becoming stressed out the last weeks of April cramming for their final exams. Little wonder! These young adults are attempting to master twenty weeks of information in eleven weeks of actual instruction.
Each year college tuitions are going higher and higher. College semesters are shorter and shorter with a long holiday break in December and January and the traditional spring break in March. World technology is advancing daily. Leaders are advising that our students at all levels need more intense education to compete in the modern world. Many are calling for longer elementary and high school years. Yet college training days are constantly growing shorter and more expensive. Some thing is drastically wrong here.
Are college sports running too long into the semester? No, college semesters are running too short. I, frankly, do not know the answer to this problem of higher costs and shorter instructions. I will offer that somewhere in all of this there are teacher and proffesor unions involved. How simple is that? ---Grandpa Gordon
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