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“By 2020,” President Barak Obama addresses, “America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world” (Kelly and Schneider 1). Today as we live in America, most people face with a college problem since after high school graduation. High school graduates consider whether go to the college or not go to the college. Likewise, Jackson, who is attending a college, has to make a decision of continuing higher education. Myself as a college student would like to more…

athletic scholarships annually to more than 150,000 student athletes (“Recruiting Fact Sheet,” 2016). Yet, sports administrators argue that paying for athlete’s college tuition simply is not enough as the athletes publicity is producing revenue for universities and the NCAA (Breslow, 2013). While controversy throughout this pivotal topic is understandable, college athletes should not receive additional financial help because education leads to money, payment plans would be a disaster, and…

Fixing the Student Debt Problem Many people dream of graduating from a good college and starting a career in a field that they both love and that will secure them a well-paying, secure job. Unfortunately, due to the rising cost of college tuition, a large amount of students are unable to pursue this dream without amassing a large amount of loans. Student debt has become almost synonymous with attaining higher education. However, student debt often has a crippling effect on people’s financial…

Professors, advisors, and administrators are the fundamentals to a university. They are the ones who will guide and help prospective and current students. The ones every student interacts with and the students get to know throughout the semester. Now, students have other options when seeking help. Peer educators are the umbrella for the smaller roles certain students have in the university. Peer mentors, advisors, and tutors are the helping roles for academic advisors and professors. They are…

Ziegler 1 Rachel Ziegler Sarah Chapman English 151-03 21 October 2016 Essay Final Draft (Problem Solving Report English 151) Louis Menand expresses his view on the importance of re-imagining liberal education, “but the only way to develop curiosity, sympathy, principle, and independence of mind is to practice being curious, sympathetic, principled, and independent” (536). Menand’s point describes an experience all students should want to gain through liberal education. Liberal education…

students who transferred to big universities came back to TCC so they would get more immersive and rich experience. As for college life, if a student makes an effort to immerse themselves in the community college environment you can have friendship that you could have never imagined in a university setting. In a time of inflated college tuition, the affordability of community college is simply . Despite the array of benefits and offerings that many universities cannot provide, community…

adequately prepared to attend university. If ineffective, however, it will decrease the proportion of college ready students. The Principal (she) of the school is responsible for choosing a grading policy: a (possibly noisy) assessment of each student’s ability. The University (he), after observing applicants’ grades, admits students who are sufficiently likely to be adequately prepared. The Principal wants to maximize the number of students who are accepted to a university. This paper seeks to…

Damon Climer Ms. Milliner EES21QH03 9/25/2016 Why Not Go to College? Going to college in this day and age is viewed as a must by a lot of people. Not only teachers, but parents and businesses as well. Even with all this pressure to get a higher education, there still remains a minority who still insist that college education isn’t or shouldn’t be a requirement to make a decent living, myself included. There are probably as many reasons as there are people, but let’s try to narrow it down a…

many students attend in college for a better advantage in finding a job and getting a higher income. Community colleges are the most affordable way to help the students who want to start and explore their career before they move on to four year university. Following to this aspiration, the president of the United States, Barrack Obama, has proposed the program to offer free two years of community college which known as “America’s College Promise”, the program will help over nine million American…

Is Common Core Necessary? Who needs Common Core? All students who are interested in furthering their education. Common Core teaches students how to be prepared for advances in educational atmosphere. By using technology, it enhances the students’ knowledge on how to become more independent and less dependent on help from teachers. It is the students’ decision whether they would want to be successful in the classrooms. Student has to be dedicated to furthering their education. Common Core does…