The terms structure and direction can seem overwhelming and difficult to understand, but when trying to comprehend certain issues, events, or ideas, those terms can help in the distinguishing between right and wrong. Structure and direction can also help in understanding how some things are the way they are and how they got that way. Everyone can have their own ideas of how structure and direction apply to certain issues also, which sometimes allows for disagreement. Using my own interpretation of structure and direction, as well as some help from Albert M. Wolters, I am going to explain how they connect with Mark Charles' lecture through an analysis and evaluation of it.…
Summary #5: “Coping with Millennials on Campus” In the article, “Coping with Millenials on Campus” written by Steve Williams, Jim Beard, and Margaret Tanner the writers are simply trying to educate the reader about dealing with the millennial generation at the college level. In this article, they explain how this generation wants to have thing their way or they will simply move on to the next opportunity they see fits them. For many universities, they will have to restructure the way they do business to accommodate this generation if they want them to stay in their school.…
From as early as middle school the educational system begins to ingrain how important going to college is for each individual, whether they attend a trade school, community college, or university. Students take tests that suggest where they are more knowledgeable, what they are more interested in, what field they are more likely to succeed in. This sets up each individual to discover their interests and hone the necessary skills to ultimately get accepted into the college of their choice. For some this requires a lot more work than others. In “Why Elite-College Admissions Need an Overhaul” composed by Jonathan R. Cole, the John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University of Columbia and author of Toward a More Perfect University, explains…
Most of Edmundson’s ideas are accurate because one can see how the course of society is changing our education. Campus culture is what needs to change. What needs to change is the mentality…
I personally think that community college is not easy and I can't even imagine how hard a University may be as well. In college we face a bunch of hard obstacles, challenges, stress, and even wanting to give up easily, but we have to keep our heads up. Based on the article, “5 Pressing Issues Facing Community College Students Today” there are quite a lot of issues students face when attending a community college. For example, the tuition, even though is just two years it’s still expensive.…
On August 24, 2008, I began my first year of college at Tidewater Community College (TCC) pursuing a science associate degree and changed my major to applied associate of science with a concentration in Administrative of Justice. For the six semesters, I continually maintained a 3.0 or better GPA along with being apart of the Dean’s List twice. However, my last semester I had failed to uphold my academic commitment due to working full-time to support my myself financially through school. I was not able to effectively manage my time. Therefore, my overall GPA become out to be a 2.9 upon graduation.…
My observation took place at Gateway Community College Central City Campus as a part of my job as a student services specialist at the front desk counter. I was observing students between 9 A.M. and 12P.M. on a Monday morning, September 12, 2016. I was able to observe about 15 current and prospective students. The college is located in Central City area neighborhood on Buckeye and 12 street, and most of the students at this campus are considered to be “at-risk” students. The student population of Gateway is very diverse, but they have a lot of similarities as well.…
1. INTRODUCTION In this report, it will be explain the authority and limitations of the Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol, and an analysis of impact on programming techniques. 2. SOCIETY OF CONSTRUCTION LAW DELAY AND DISRUPTION PROTOCOL…
Revamping Community College In the article “Revamping Community Colleges to Improve Graduation Rates” it talks about ways that people of education are working to help improve the graduation rate. While I am all for more people going to college and getting degrees, I do not agree with the changes that the article suggests. One of the changes that they are trying to enforce is the idea of free college. In the article, it states that “Bills are pending to carry out President Obama’s America’s College Promise proposal to make community colleges free to responsible high school graduates.”…
Rape on U.S. College Campuses: Causes, Effects, and What’s Being Done to Stop It Rape culture on college campuses is pervasive and blatant, but universities, as well as fellow students, politicians, law enforcement officials, media messages, and gender roles in a culture where men dominate and women are not taken as seriously, endorse the bias that sexual assault is the victim’s fault or “unavoidable” in a culture where X, instead of focusing on preventing rape by changing the behavior of perpetrators. Rape culture on campus is perpetuated by the media, U.S. laws, and universities trying to protect their name. The continued emphasis on the actions of sexual assault victims, instead of aggressors, is a real problem in U.S. colleges today and…
Culture of Respect strengthen schools by providing a framework to assess and improve efforts to eliminate sexual violence from their campuses. They provide tools for all constituents at colleges and universities as they answer the call to ensure students safety to continue their higher education. Culture of Respect was founded in 2013 by the parents of college students who were concerned of the high rate of sexual assault on college campuses and the lack of comprehensive resources for survivors, students, administrators and parents trying to respond to prevent future incidents on campus sexual assault. The groups of parents formed a team of public health and violence prevention researchers from New York University and Columbia University and…
College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco (2012) provides a comprehensive chronological overview of higher education from its origins to the present day. Upon reading the title I assumed the subsequent pages would drag on about the failures of higher education and list a fool proof way of correcting said issues, I am happy to announce I was incorrect. In the book’s six short chapters Delbanco manages to take us back in time and review the origins of higher education in order to better understand where we are today. In the first three chapters Delbanco reviews the evolution of college, which originally stirred from religion, and became the way society groomed young men of age. In 1886 founding president of John’s Hopkins stated that college should always be a place for the development of a student’s character (p.42).…
The objective of my classmates’ social boycott for the past three months is me. Even though I hold no position of power, or any sort of outstanding feature, other than wearing a hijab, I greet each school day with a smile to their hardened side glances. I suppose that after finding out that one of my friends had the answer key to a Latin final exam, one that had the entire junior year class anxious and jumpy, rebuking her for offering it to me and for even having possession of it in the first place, and then advising her to get rid of it, must have made me a target to her darts of suspicion on who told the administration about the cheated Latin final exam incident. The night before this debacle of the year, most of my Latin class members and…
Everyone must deal with their own form of mental health issues, whether that’s stress, anxiety, or depression. Having minimal amount of stress is even good for a person. Excessive amount of stress, though, can lead to depression and anxiety. College students are increasingly showing problems with their mental health. A majority of college students are plagued with an abundant amount of stress, that they try to commit suicide or use illegal means to make things easier.…
Even worst the author argues that one out of three senior graduates had no improvements whatsoever in their writing and critical thinking skills than when they first arrived to college. [4] With these staggering statistics many people are beginning to wonder if higher education has been placed in the midst of a higher education…