Carleton College

Universities have long been heralded as indispensable founts of societal improvement. Blessed John Henry Newman, a nineteenth century Catholic cleric who founded Ireland’s largest university, University College Dublin, declared that “A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.” (177). In recognition of this role, Universities have long held a high place in society, commanding respect from and wielding influence over those in positions of power. So too have its faculty members…

Prior to WWII many anthropologists maintained that race was a biological phenomenon best ascertained through the use of anthropometric measurements. After the war, however, a growing number of anthropologists along with geneticists and serologists began to rethink the race concept and its attendant methodologies. Prompted by political and social events as well as empirical shifts brought on by the modern synthesis, these scientists sought more "objective" and "scientifically valid" methods for…

Change Your Diversity And Read Divergent Divergent is an amazing science fiction novel. The book was published in April 25, 2011. The book was written by Veronica Roth and won two awards. Veronica was raised in Barrington, Illinois. She first started off her career at Carleton College, but then later transferred to Northwestern University to join their creative writing program. She wrote her first book “Divergent” during her senior year at college over winter break. The book takes you on a…

at Virginia Technical University in 2007, and Northern Illinois University in 2008 show the shift of mental health problems to more serious matters. The importance and implementation of mental health treatment, resources, and policies needs greater enforcement in order to target early intervention and prevent future tragedies from occurring. With the growing number of college students diagnosed with these mental health disorders, colleges should make students more aware of the many options…

Uniforms may create a better environment for relatively problem-free grades (K-8), but this does not prove that similar affects would help our troubled high school population, the population where serious violence and discipline problems are most prevalent. An additional study completed by the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS) revealed that mandatory school uniforms do not improve attendance, behavior, drug use, or academic achievement. The NELS study tracked a national…

A study conducted by the Huron University(2007) showed that college students who were made to do high-effort high-stress condition assignments or lengthy essays with short time limit, procrastinated more than those who either had to write less or had more time, which lead to more anxiety (Musolino, 2007 p.232, 234). Thus, the paper quality would be low since the writing amount is large, but the time to work on it is short. Also, Musolino (2007, p.237) states of the students' motives come from…

Queen’s, Cornell and others instruct faculty and staff on how to look for warning signs that could signal a student in crisis, making it a campus-wide effort… Bounce Back, at Carleton University, which sets up undergrads who receive less than a 60 per cent average in their first semester with an upper-year mentor… Canadian Association of College and University Student Services … partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association, to study best practices in Canada and abroad… University of…

The Day I Choose LCC Have you ever thought about what college you would attend and how successful you would be? Well I have, as child I would imagine what college I would attend and would I be able to succeed. I imagined how collage would be, would I attended a large university or a small local community college. Students may even worry about the ACT and SAT and how successful will they be when taking those two extremely important tests. Luckily, I choose a school that didn 't stress me out…

children to work hard, do well, and earn a college degree, then they will get a job. Many would argue that this philosophy helped the older generation be successful in their educational and post-educational careers, so it should not be changed; however, in the words of Ken Burns, “the problem is that the current system of education was designed…

Up program was introduced, I had a fair idea of what I was intending to study, but I remained unsure and had made no further necessary decisions about my post-secondary education. The reason I had not even thought about what university I wanted to go to or what career I wanted to pursue was due to a lack of resources and guidance. My parents, although always supportive of me, were limited as to what they could help me with when it came to making academic decisions beyond high school as they had…