Harpers: Leveling the Field (Beha)

It seemed strange to me that a credit-bearing college course should be dedicated to telling students why they should go to college, but the entire first-year sequence turns out to be an almost surreal riff on the socialization process of higher education, where secondary characteristics of college graduates become the actual subjects of the courses. Having read in 'Your College Experience' that graduates have better health outcomes, students could look forward a few weeks down the line to tackling topics like 'optimal body weight' ... Because college graduates exhibit a collection of socially beneficial traits, we have come to believe that the development of these traits is college's primary purpose.
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