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US College Students Need Help

2022-03-25 · announcement · Hank · 3:29 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life (also: Projects) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, civic or action cta

Hank says US students' biggest obstacle is less learning than navigating a complex higher-education bureaucracy, hardest for those with the least support, and announces Complexly's answers with Arizona State University: the Study Hall YouTube channel with its Fast Guides to majors, and Crash Course How to College.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Crash Course's original idea of student needs, and outcome statistics for students

  • ★★ Hank says that ten years ago, starting Crash Course, he thought students mainly needed better learning tools; they do, and he is proud of Crash Course's work there. — 00:00:00 · Crash Course
  • ★★★ Hank says 84% of typical high school juniors want to continue their education after high school, but only about 66% will. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Hank says only 60% of people who go on to college actually get a degree. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Hank says about 40% of Americans with student loans are not going to get a degree. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Hank's first impulse is that this is a learning problem, which is part of it, but arguably the larger part is understanding a tremendously complex system: admissions, aid, credit transfer, degree paths. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Hank says only 20% of students receive counseling on how best to pay for college, and only 30% on how admissions work. — 00:00:29

00:00:58 — The bureaucracy is hardest for students with the least support, time and money

  • ★★★ Hank says those for whom the system is hardest get the least support from institutions and, on average, have the least time and money to deal with it. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Hank says students needing more aid and loans are more likely to hold a job while applying, to do unpaid child or elder care, and to lack people who can advise them. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Hank calls the system, from loans to majors to credit transfer, a big messy bureaucracy that even people inside it say is hard. — 00:01:27
  • ★★ Hank says the less you know, the more likely you box yourself into a bad outcome or are even taken advantage of by bad institutions. — 00:01:27
  • ★★★ Hank says being unable to make an informed decision about one of life's most important decisions is a big reason so many students end up with loans but no degree. — 00:01:27

00:01:56 — Launch of the Study Hall channel with Fast Guides and of Crash Course How to College; please share them

  • ★★ Hank says they understood none of this when starting Crash Course; over the last couple of years he, John and many at Complexly had a crash course in how US higher education works. — 00:01:56 · Crash Course, Complexly
  • ★★★ Hank announces that, in partnership with Arizona State University, they are launching a new YouTube channel called Study Hall. — 00:01:56 · Study Hall
  • ★★★ Hank announces a new Crash Course course, Crash Course How to College, covering the options a person in the US faces about their future, from financial aid to admissions to majors and careers. — 00:01:56 · Crash Course
  • ★★ Hank says they already made a series of courses with ASU under the name Study Hall, aimed at the subjects that most interfere with students succeeding in early college. — 00:02:26 · Study Hall
  • ★★★ Hank says the Study Hall channel starts with Fast Guides: quick but deep dives into choosing a major, its work, skills, switching out and what graduates do. — 00:02:26 · Study Hall
  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to check out Crash Course How to College and the Study Hall channel and send them to everyone who might go to college soon, including themselves. — 00:02:55 · Study Hall, Crash Course
  • ★★ Hank has seen the work and care behind these and knows that when good people work hard together they really can help solve hard problems. — 00:02:55

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Central: Crash Course · Crash Course How to College · higher education · Study Hall

Also: Complexly · Fast Guides · Student loan · unpaid work

Only in the description or credits: Arizona State University · Crash Course coin · Patreon

Also centred on higher education: College Advice From an Expert · Is College Worth It? · Why is College So Expensive? · Life is not a Job Training Program · Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb · An Announcement 3 Years in the Making

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