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    The United States is suffering an academic decline for the middle class families and families who are lower. Many students in financial need must spend a portion of their time taking on part time jobs while studying, while other students must worry about the loans that they have collected and how they are going to pay it off after graduation. The government meets minimal needs to help students in financial need to help pay off their college tuition and that college costs are becoming a factor…

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    Higher Education Interview

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    first thought about what area of higher education I wanted to learn more about. After thinking of a few different individuals I decided to interview Sabrina Tapps-Fee, a Senior Admission Counselor and Coordinator of the Tour Guide program for the University of Iowa. I decided to interview Sabrina, because admissions is an area of higher education that really interests me. I knew Sabrina had a long history working in admissions and I was interested in learning more about her experiences. To…

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    turmoil. Drugs, poverty, crime and mental illness were plaguing society around this time (Evans & Reason, 2001). There was also a lack of trust in higher education after the political uprising of the previous decades. Funding was sparse and many universities lacked the funding desperately needed to operate their programs. Access to higher education was now available to people it was traditionally not in the past such as, minority students and adult students (Evans & Reason, 2001). Judith…

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    Why Is College Important

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    high school. The road to knowledge travels right through high school and into college. Without a college education, an education is not complete. The importance of college is difficult to even imagine. The Bureau of Labor Statistics in the United States Department Of Labor…

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    Concerning tuition, local and state governments fund public colleges. On the other hand, private schools don’t receive any funding from…

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    own research. I found that is was started at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Lori Pompa. The program was established to bring together college student and incarcerated men and women to explore and learn about issues of crime, justice, inequality, and other issues of social concern all behind prison walls. They found it fascinating once I explain the concept of the class and that there are over fifty colleges and universities participating in this…

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    From Adolescence to Adulthood: Writing at the College Level Well known for her research and publications on student writing, Nancy Sommers—now Harvard’s Expository Writing Program Director—discusses revision strategies in the journal College Composition and Communication. Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on three articles: “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” (1980), “Between the Drafts” (1992), and finally, “the Novice as Expert” (2004) which she…

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    residents of various U.S. states. In 1868, the University of California system was made with the proclamation that “admission and tuition shall be free to all residents of the state, (Stone, 2016)”. The University of Florida and New…

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    academic institutes into business enterprises which would shift the primary objective of universities from teaching to making money off the endeavors such as intercollegiate athletics which wouldn 't make college any different from a professional sports league. To further substantiate why college athletes should not be paid, collegiate athletes receive a full scholarship such as at many public state universities and private schools in the country (such as UT Austin, UCLA, NYU, OSU etc.) which…

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    Pressuring a Master’s degree in Student Affairs and College Counseling from the University of Tennessee at Martin would allow me to work as a professional counselor within many roles in a university setting. In one of my past position as a financial Aid counselor, I enjoyed working with each student helping them with their financial planning for their 4 years of college, but the most important thing I enjoy was being able to encourage each student and having them know I was there if they had…

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