Clarion Call: An Education Without Much Learning

A student returning to college at forty finds ECU's distance education program too unchallenging to continue
By Robert Faulkner
July 11, 2008

Robert Faulkner has worked in information technology for the past fifteen years. He is married and is currently working in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, where he continues to enjoy the IT profession.

In August 2004, I made the decision to return to college and finish my formal education as an undergraduate. I was 40 years old with an associate’s degree from an out-of-state community college. the rest