Confident in their academic ability but less so in their interpersonal skills, this year’s freshmen believe the main benefit of a college education is to increase their earning power. More than ever they aspire to be well off—and also to help others—while their emotional health has hit a new low.
That’s the portrait of students today, according to the annual Freshman Survey, released on Thursday by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, part of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles.
The report, "The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2014," is based on responses from 153,015 first-time, full-time freshmen at 227 baccalaureate institutions who were surveyed during registration, orientation, or the first few weeks of classes.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/College-Freshmen-Seek/151645