clipped from: chronicle.com There is that magic word: fit.
We use it a lot in higher education, not only when we search for colleagues but also when we woo prospective students, who are themselves encouraged to look far and wide for that elusive match -- the perfect fit between student and college. The fact that about a third of all college students drop out or transfer after the first year suggests that we may be doing a better job at creating the illusion of the perfect fit than actually fulfilling it. Or maybe the students -- those overprotected, excessively nurtured, coddled millennials -- simply expect too much of our institutions, setting themselves up for disappointment and disillusion.