Community

Community college relies on two types of academic faculty, one of them is adjunct professors who do not have a full-time around 67% of full time [Mark 02/2015], another is full-time professors who has a full course load of instruction around 15 classrooms per week [Mark 02/2015]. Community colleges employed adjunct professors to save money, it costs less than to hire a single full-time professor. Adjunct professors do not have benefits; however, full-time professors usually have health…

In chapter four, “Communities and Network”, Baym focuses on online interaction and how it occurs, including communities and social network. Throughout this chapter, Baym stresses that the word community does not have one correct definition, but instead introduces five qualities found in both online groups and in many definitions of community creating online contexts. These five qualities include: space, shared practice, shared resources and support, shared identities, and interpersonal…

In my paper, I decided to observe the online community called IMVU. I saturated myself into this virtual community because I found it to be one of the most unusual communities and unlike anything I have or would do. Throughout this study, I decided to use both a naturalistic and participation observation method. I went to various realistic chat rooms where I listened in on conversations as well as tried to communicate with willing individuals. Through these conversations, I came to the…

Here at The Robinson’s Community Outreach Center (RCOC) like to think of our marketing plan as a systematic method to reach our target audience. Our target audience would be communities within the Phoenix Metropolitan area that struggle with low incomes, at-risk youth, and underprivileged populations that are in need of assistance to reduce their day to day challenges. The Robinson’s center is determined to create a system that possess reliable resources to our clients, so they are aware that…

What Is Discourse Community? What is the meaning of a discourse community? A discourse community is a set of people who have a different way of communicating than others. Those groups of people usually have very similar values and assumptions as well as ways of communicating with each other about those goals. In the article "Learning The Language" by Perri Klass' we can see an example of a new discourse community that she entered. In the article she discusses about her experience in medical…

students look at community colleges along with universities. They don’t know whether to start off at a community college and transfer to a university or to just go straight to a university. Not knowing this decision can waste much of your time and money. Many factors to think about when making this decision are cost, size, academics, and social life. Taking into account of these factors, I researched, and ultimately made a decision on which school is right for me to attend first. Community…

Having free community college encourages high school graduates to pursue a higher education. Tuitions and fees for four-year institutions have increased by 3.4 percent each year from 2005 and 2015 (Morris). The increasing cost of tuition for four-year universities turns away students from automatically going to a university, thus leading them to go to a community college instead. However, they still run into some financial troubles there. Students are most likely to apply for a community college…

competitive community colleges, create higher-level skills, technologist for higher demand industries, and cost-effective for taxpayers. In addition, Boggs (2004), suggests that community colleges cannot continue to do more with less and continue to maintain the open access and affordability for which they were created. Policy makers and state and federal decision makers must be on one accord in understanding the future goals. For instance, there are approximately twelve hundred community…

which is said to be a threat because as this priority decreases in value, the economy is spiraling downward and backwards in development, however income inequality may be hugely impacted in the American economy through free community college. Though considering free community college in America may bring concerns…

In community policing, there are two key players, the community, and the police. In order to achieve community policing, there must be an equal amount of effort put forth by both parties. One component of community policing is “community partnership.” In the community partnership component, the primary goal is to create an atmosphere of trust between the police and the community’s citizens. Once trust has been established, the community becomes an active part of helping the police identify…