College as Part Time Job?

Interesting discussion of a study of the  work load of college students (including grade inflation and other related factors) that lets college become a part-time job, rather than the full-time one it was designed to be. Particularly striking was the finding that there was little correlation between grades and time spent studying, which suggests something wrong on the teaching side. The stinging conclusion:

Remember the Eastern European joke about wages under communism, “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us”? Perhaps there is an undergraduate counterpart: “We pretend to study and they pretend to grade us.”