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on issues within the economy, and he has attended some of the finest colleges in America. Reich wrote an article called “College Is a Ludicrous Waste of Money,’’ which interests me because I am a high school student that will be transitioning into a college student. In the article, Reich gives solutions, such as technician jobs, combining high school student’s last year into a first year college experience, and community college. Reich 's solutions could be helpful to certain individuals ;but…

It’s time for the government to take control of the situation and force universities to stop increasing the cost for tuition. The Delta Project, a nonprofit group studying college costs nationwide found, “Tuition rose 29.8 percent at public research universities from 2002 to 2006,” which is an insane amount compared to the increase cost per student of 8.4%. "Students are paying more and arguably getting less,” as Jane Wellman…

Is there still place for liberal art education in Post-Secondary Education, or should Colleges and Universities concentrate on workforce training majors? “Change is a double-edged sword. Its relentless pace these days runs us off our feet. Yet when things are unsettled, we can find new ways to move ahead and to create breakthroughs not possible in stagnant societies. If you ask people to brainstorm words to describe change, they come up with a mixture of negative and positive terms. On the…

The struggle of the average college student’s financial burden, decisions that have to be made to attend college to have a successful future. Students borrowing loans that are not affordable to pay back, students decisions having to drop out of college because they are unable to afford the cost of living and college fees. When in high school many students do not get the opportunity to research the financial burden they might face when accepting to attend in state or out of state university.…

College is stressful for the majority- managing your time, then balancing out tests, quizzes, extracurriculars, projects, etc. The word itself creates mixed emotions of the unknown. From early on, it’s viewed as an exciting chapter in life until you reach the age of decision making, identifying your necessities, filling out applications, writing admission essays, and anticipating the possible letter of acceptance or rejection. In 2016, the book, Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be by Frank Bruni,…

all the others, and still just believe that you have been completely fair." Over the past fifty years our nation has become as accepting and unbiased as ever but with this new change it makes Affirmative Action seem less necessary. For everyone the college admission process is a long a grueling one but with the rise of Affirmative action and unofficial racial quotas this process may no longer be a fair…

are enough to make a high school student cringe. Advanced Proportion (AP) courses, also known by IB, require more obligation, lots of homework, and laborious hours. High school students with an ambition to pursue admission into the most competitive colleges, are likely to take three to five AP courses in order to gain acceptance into these institutions. It takes a strong mental effort to succeed in these classes. A majority of students have become okay with just being ‘average’ and taking…

start businesses, or save lives through the medical field. Others will teach students who will take our places, predict the weather, or be paid housekeepers for other people. Some of us first will be off to large colleges such as Pittsburgh, Penn State, Harvard, Duke, or Dartmouth; others will be off to smaller ones such as Nyack, Davidson,…

Curriculum in Post-Secondary Education Throughout the 1700s, nine colleges (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, William and Mary, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Brown, and Columbia) were founded throughout the thirteen original colonies for religious purposes. While each of these colleges were either secular or had different religious denominations, all of these colleges had their curriculum modeled after that in the English college system. This curriculum included instruction in subjects…

dotted with students of varying ages and ethnic backgrounds.Higher education’s evolution in America can point to many major areas of change, governance, curriculum, funding, diversity and content delivery. Birthed in medieval Europe the early college 's curriculum consisted of the trivium – grammar, law, and rhetoric. There were schools…