Majors_Meeting_Needs

Majors Meeting Needs Issue: The pressing issue in this editorial in the number of current students in colleges changing their majors. So much so that is has raised the question, why this is happening all across the country' In trying to answer this, the author Mark Clayton of the Christian Science Monitor poses the argument that post generation-X students in their ‘soul searching’, have chosen new majors at a very impressive rate. This change-rate he attributes to many of the significant “social ills” that have taken place in the early part of the 21st century in the United States. Events like the “Enron and World Com Scandals, the 9/11 World Trade Center Bombings, the need not to be perceived as “ironic about life”, and influential television shows have all supposedly produced the “social-ills” or social influences that are responsible for the unprecedented alteration of majors across college campuses. Reasons: The reasons Clayton gives for this student movement of majors is embedded in the students “sole searching” need not to succumb these “social-ills”. The only scientific evidence Clayton gives is a study completed by “Sallie Mae”. This survey (not yet published) makes the claim that if a college is students, majors, percent, clayton, study, evidence, argument, about, assumption, survey, social, colleges, college, claim, studies, student, make, interest, idea, editorial, clayton’s, change, becomes, years, world, without, trend, through, societal, social-ills, significant, shows, sallie, reasoning