• Students short-changed when they skim assignments 
Brian Underwood, Red and Black (U of GA, Athens) Atlas Shrugged  | College students are familiar with immense reading assignments. Those in the humanities and social sciences can sometimes expect to read well over one hundred pages for a single class period. Multiply that by about 14 or so class periods per week, and it is like asking students to read the equivalent of Ayn Rand’s "Atlas Shrugged" every seven days.   Published: 2012-09-06