Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Upon my eighteenth birthday my mother’s boyfriend evicted me and I was on my own. I instantly enrolled in the local community college, taking electronic courses to finish my certification. I entered the work force at a local power supply factory, worked for Micro Energy for the next five years, rising from a test technician to a senior line technician. The factory would be bought…

from 1975 to present and Chairman of Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts Incorporated. It’s great to know that Donald Trump knows how to make money, but the world needs someone who is well educated and prepared for the duties of the Presidency of the United States. When it comes to crime and safety, Trump believes that crime and violence is an attack on the poor. He wants to work with law enforcement to keep gang members and drug dealers off the street to make the cities and communities safer. He…

Many American students suffer with college debt. The average student that graduates with a bachelor’s degree leaves the university with more than $30,000 in debt. Students that graduate with graduate degrees can end up leaving their universities with more than $100,000 in debt. Living with that type of debt has caused many Americans to put a lot of the plans they had post- graduation on hold. Average people have a hard time paying bills and living day to day already and with the added stress of…

The United States of America is a country with strong beliefs. Yet for centuries, despite our resolute opinions and insistence that we are a “civilized” society, we have paid little attention to key schools of philosophy. This is part of Alexis de Tocqueville’s assertion that while we act within a set of cultural rules, we have done very little to challenge or discuss what our core values actually are. We rely instead on the self, and the “indefinite perfectibility” of man – the concept that we…

Today we learned about how the government influences education. I had not realized how complicated the education government map is and how many people influence education. The states govern public education as satiated by the 10th Amendment in the United States Constitution. Education policies are set by the State Board of Education. School are financed many different ways, but two of which is categorical grants, spent for a specific purpose, and block grants, flexible money. The Annual Yearly…

Education Gap In the United States, education gap is a real problem for many minority students. We live in a multicultural society with various ideas about what success means and not every child is encouraged to pursue higher education, some students have a cultural mentality that varies from the rest. Education can easily become overwhelming for foreigners because of the diverse cultures, different ethnicities, and languages. Language is a barrier to some students who do not even know English…

LSS was away last week so it was a quiet day at the office. I handed out postcards to a few passerby’s’ interested in the Network. I also answered phone inquires over (mostly about the Riverdale Art Walk application). Then I updated the media calendar with important dates/events, jotted down new Art Square Gallery submissions, tweeted a bit, and updated membership status data for the project coordinator of RAW. I determined if their membership was expired or active and added the expiry date…

What makes Buddhism unique from other religions is the way it is able to adapt and expand into various cultures. Buddhism in America is growing at a rapid rate. According to Pew Forum’s United State Religious Landscape Survey, Buddhism has climbed to the 3rd most practiced religion in America, below Christianity and Judaism. Between 1990 and 2001, Buddhism has grown 170%. This rapid growth is said to be due to the conversion of American…

For the purposes of this analysis, I will reflect upon the film, Mona Lisa Smile (2003) in which women’s issues are finely portrayed regarding education, family roles, and the relation to social work practice. Background During the 1950’s, the United States had just emerged from World War II and society…

this changing world. One of the oldest colleges in American history, Harvard University, founded in 1636, costs $60,659 for tuition, room, board and fees combined. But was it always this expensive? What percentage of 20-somethings actually even went to college back when it all first began? Today, it is almost a given that when high school is done, you are supposed to go to college. As of 2013, the total number of students enrolled in colleges in the United States is 14 million, and that number…