Miami University

> Fraternal Law Newsletter. September’s issue addresses: • American University’s dismissal of students involved in an underground local group, Epsilon Iota. • A federal court decision upholding the due-process rights of a student suspended by Miami University (Ohio) related to the alleged perpetration…

Approximately five thousand admission applications are sent in to Florida A&M University, and only two thousand are accepted for enrollment. This estimation gives a forty percent acceptance rate for the university. FAMU has a forty percent acceptance rate, and I was chosen. Getting my acceptance letter from FAMU was the highlight of my life, and a moment I would never forget. Being a student at this amazing university has taught me many useful skills, and enabled be to prosper at everything that…

The purpose of the community health assessment is to identify health needs and risks, as well as strengths and assets, in Palm Beach County. Palm Beach County, Florida consists of 2,386.33 square miles; of which 1,969.76 square miles is land and 412.22 square miles is water. With over 1.3 million people, Palm Beach County is “the third-most populous county in Florida” (Wikipedia, 2014). West Palm Beach is the biggest city with a population of 102,436 and the location of the county’s three…

Case Study Coach Foyer is the head coach of a division 1 football team at the University of Miami. The football team has been doing exceptionally well throughout the season and is looking forward to the big championship game. They are a favorite to win the game, and the team is looking forward to the new uniforms and equipment as well as a $100,000 prize if they win. The semester just recently ended and final grades were posted to a “Staff Only” website. On this website, teachers can post…

a Barry training and college experience foster individual and collective change where learning prompts information and truth, reflection prompts educated activity, and a promise to social equity prompts communitarian administration. Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, is one of the biggest Catholic colleges in the Southeast and was perceived as one of "America's Top Colleges" by Forbes magazine in 2013 for the third…

College athletes should be paid because of the large amounts of revenue that they produce for their school (Futterman; Sack; Thomson; Coterell). The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is one of the most anticipated and viewed events of the year. Recently, the NCAA extended its media rights deal with CBS and Turner Sports through 2024 for a record $10.6 billion (Futterman 1). That’s an average of $720 million a year (Futterman 1). Despite being the primary reason for this television deal and…

My life now / My life in five years Stephani Miranda Keiser University Final Version My life now / My life in five years The type of lifestyle I will achieve in five years will be 10 times more better than the one I live in now. It baffles me when people my age have no type of goal that will keep them motivated in life for what is to come in the future. I get such an adrenaline when I talk and think about my future, its unexplainable. Certainly, my job now and my job in…

My name is Kevon Jones, and I am a computer information systems student. I'm originally from Miami, Florida, but I live in Jacksonville. I chose FAMU because I like being part of a diverse student body. Also, FAMU has a really strong IT program. When I visited the campus, I was taken by the city-like environment. There are plenty of activities for college students to take part in. Being a student at FAMU, I discovered that I have a great work ethic. But one of my headaches that was difficult in…

I am a senior at Miami High School and am currently enrolled in various rigorous courses designed for readying students for college. These courses include AP Calculus, AP Literature, and AP Environmental Science. In my junior year, I took two of the most vigorous and mentally challenging courses offered at my school, AP Language and Composition and AP Chemistry. Presently, my educational goal in high school is to raise my rank in my class because currently my unweighted rank is sixth out of one…

The NCAA and the universities benefit tremendously from the profits the student athletes generate. Through various sources of profits the NCAA has grown to a multi billion-dollar industry. The NCAA is broken down into conferences, some of the conferences are more competitive then others. There are powerhouse programs within the conferences that groom the best athletes, get the best recruits, and compete for the most prestigious championships. As a result, these conferences get the best…