Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
North Carolina colleges should correct a bad academic habit.
Over the past several years, a common refrain in education has been that educators need to “meet students where they are.” Equally common is the promise to do just that—and we’re hearing it more and more in North Carolina.
The idea of “meeting students where they are” is most commonly invoked in non-academic contexts. For example:
- DeVetta Holman Nash, assistant director of student wellness services and coordinator of student academic success at UNC, proclaims, “I meet students where they are individually.”
- UNC Charlotte touts a new “all-pathways [‘collegiate recovery’] program model to meet students where they are.”
- After partnering with Amazon’s Career Choice Program in 2022, UNCG chancellor Franklin Gilliam, Jr., declared, “With this exciting partnership, we are transforming the way we provide coursework to meet students where they are.”
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