Reviews

Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education by Paul LeBlanc

dlrcope's review

4.0

I found this book hard to read partly because it is so sad to face how far the real higher ed is from my old idealized dream, and partly because it was just a bit dry for me. I almost put the book down and gave up, but I’m glad I didn’t because there are some great ideas in this book. In the end I was inspired and invigorated by it, and most definitely grateful for it. Competency based education. Let’s do it!

eternalsamnation's review

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.5

apuffett's review

informative medium-paced

3.0

elysareadsitall's review

challenging slow-paced

2.0

LeBlanc presents changing higher education to a competency-based model rather than the credit hour-based model. It's a great and necessary change. He does a really good job of explaining why the change is needed and sharing student testimonials about why they liked it better; however, he didn't do as good of a job explaining how to make the change. He explained some of the changes made at SNHU, but more explanation is needed for other schools to implement the idea.