I would like to clear up a couple of misunderstandings in Natalie Farinacci's article, College students struggle with math skills
study finds in the April 12th issue regarding the preparedness of incoming college students.
I enjoyed speaking with Farinacci, and her article focused on an important topic. However, I did not intend to imply that the experimental course, Becoming a Critical Thinker, would replace our freshman orientation course, UC 115, which is offered Fall Quarter, and which focuses on a variety of topics that help OU students make the transition to college. If approved, the critical thinking course would be offered Winter Quarter as a seminar course for freshmen and would focus on improving critical thinking skills.
A second, less critical misunderstanding concerns my comment that more students are going to college now than in the past. I do not know what percentage of students attend college now, compared to the past, but I am not sure it would be accurate to say that a majority of high school graduates did not attend college (depending, of course, on how far back we go). That might, by the way, be another interesting topic for a story.' Char Rae is the former director of the UC 115 freshman orientation class.
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