Community gardening

Boen Wang, a sophomore majoring in engineering science at Penn State who was featured on The Daily Collegian’s Wednesday column, wrote an article called Reasons to make community college free. He insists that making community college free is possible and could potentially reshape higher education. He pinpoints one of the effects of high tuition and presents, “Lack of financial resources is one of the major reasons for such low graduation rates”…

Walking the City Exercise: George Street, Central Dunedin According to the Dunedin City Council and the Social Wellbeing Strategy, the city of Dunedin, New Zealand strives for the title, “One of the World’s Great Small Cities.” On Tuesday, the 31st of March, I took the time to walk up and down George Street, a main shopping section of Dunedin. Along my walk, I observed the use of public versus private space, how people act and react to their surroundings, and the relationship between technology…

Approximately 70% of high school seniors in America will enroll in college. That college experience will affect them, not only career-wise but individually. In the essay “College Pressures,” William Zinsser defines the common stresses an average student may go through during their enrollment from his perspective of the master of Branford College. Zinsser informs the reader about the types of tensions that may occur and encourages them to improve the student experience by producing the best…

role of community policing is clearly evolving as some agencies are continuing to focus on community poling to bring the community together and to crime control (Hoover 2014).“There are different sides to the community policing effort according to one police chief” and some other agency representatives due to problem solving policing.In many respects community policing is a thing of the past for some agencies Hoover 2014). With that said there are some advantages and dis advantages of community…

What happens when a government passes an unjust law? Must the people succumb to that law forever? No, there is a very practical, nonviolent way to overturn an unjust law: civil disobedience. Civil disobedience positively impacts a free society by overturning government injustice efficiently and effectively. Government injustice is seen throughout the world. Even in America, one of the freest countries, unjust laws are passed. What is an unjust law? According to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “An…

Festival and saw the movie “Puzzles” and “Orlando Strong.” The movies were about homophobia and hate that ended up in two separate violent attacks on the LGBTQ community. I was able to talk to Patty Sheehan and Beth Tura, advocates and political representatives for the LGBTQ community. They convinced me that as a member of the gay community I must do more to advocate for our…

While a statewide report, there are many suburbs in Minnesota that have are majority white, and their schools are majority white with advanced courses, which shows that race, ethnicity, and economic class do play a role in enrollment in advanced courses, as students of a higher economic class had the opportunity to take advanced courses. The bit of diversity in my advanced courses, however, was not reflected in the students who actually took the exams. While there are no longer any policies…

for is Craven Community College (CCC) in New Bern, NC. Their mission statement: Craven Community College is a dynamic and responsive institution of higher education committed to improving and enriching individual lives and society through comprehensive, high quality and accessible learning opportunities that allow students to contribute and compete in a diverse and global community. Their vision statement: By 2017, Craven Community College will be recognized as a vibrant community college…

It ‘til You Make It”: Why Community College Students’ Aspirations “Hold Steady,” written by Kelly Nielsen. The article focuses on people who come from low-income families and are also in the lower class of society and how their aspirations of attending a four-year university might change while attending a community college. The purpose of this research is to find out the reasons why people’s aspirations of attending a four-year university change after attending community college. I decided to…

Community policing is a policing strategy that focuses on building ties between the police and the community. It requires the police officers to adopt a proactive approach in dealing with public safety issues. The approach acknowledges the fact that the police cannot solve all the problems alone and it creates a partnership between community members and the police. In this set up, the police are no longer the sole guardians of law and order and the members od the community become allies with the…