Professors at top California college forced to radically alter coursework as students struggle to read

Fuente: New York Post

Humanities professors at one of California’s most prestigious universities say they are assigning fewer pages, replacing full books with excerpts and rethinking coursework as students increasingly struggle to keep up with reading-heavy classes. The concerns, raised by faculty at University of California, Berkeley, come amid a broader debate across the University of California about whether incoming students are arriving on campus academically prepared for college-level work. 5 Professors are rethinking coursework as students increasingly struggle to keep up with reading-heavy classes.