Northwestern University

There are many factors such as sleep deprivation, working part-time, not eating on time, and eating junk food. These factors can cause students physical and mental stress. The author uses the study conducted by University of Georgia’s Health Center to prove her point: “Stress can also cause emotional problems creating fear or sadness and mental problems that in turn increase levels of anxiety. These effects were found as a result of stress among college students”…

The average American works a little over 40 hours a week, while student athletes spend 43.3 hours working and training. So they work more than the average American yet are not even paid, but they generate millions for their universities. If you believe athletes are being paid in scholarships and their free education, but they are not able to use it to their full promised value because of the requirement of their colleges and the NCAA such as where athletes are not allowed to take…

An experiment conducted out of the Northwestern Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, followed 40 Chicago-area students over the course of four years of high school. After being divided into two groups based on academic paths, the results taken by analysis tests from their freshman to senior year…

College is a fun, exciting, and challenging experience for most students, but for some, it is simply too much to handle. It’s not surprising enough to hear about a student “flunking out” of college! Each year a large number of students fail out of college in the United States. The figure is pretty dramatic; It’s been estimated that more than 300,000 students drop out of either high school or college; however, the impact of this can lead to a depletion of students’ dignity and can have a serious…

Student athletes should not be able to receive a paycheck because they collect numerous benefits not attainable by other students. Primarily, According to Mark Murphy, scholarships are good enough: Mark Murphy, Director of Athletics at Northwestern University, who participated in an ESPN [sports television network] debate on the topic of paying student-athletes, argues that these athletes currently receive scholarships, whose value,…

some of the most important students at every university. They represent their school, and they are highly valued by the university they attend. “University of Missouri Campus Protests: ‘This is Just a Beginning’” explains that about thirty black Missouri University football players stated via Twitter that they would not participate in football activities until their president, Tim Wolfe, resigned for his recent mishandling of racial issues at the university. Soon after, Wolfe resigned…

In a discussion about the paradigms of public education, Ken Burns addresses the controversial topic of cultural education. Public education is experiencing a time of confusion in helping children develop cultural identity so the new generation can continue to play an important role in globalization. This confusion causes an immediate reaction: continue to do what has been done in the past--instruct children to work hard, do well, and earn a college degree, then they will get a job. Many…

observed many children who have dropped out of college because they were not ready for the freedom of being on their own. I remember my next door neighbor only let her son attend a local community college. The other children attended colleges and universities far away from home, but he went to school nearby. The reason behind that is because his mom wanted to make sure her child was prepared for college mentally. She didn’t want her son to drop out because of parties, and not keeping up…

According to E. Allen and J. Seaman (2013) in 2013, 32 percent of college/university students were participating in one or more online courses. In an article “Revolution hits the universities” by T. Friedman (2013), he explains how MOOCs will revolutionize the method of education in the next few years. This will create an easy access/low cost method of delivering education to students around the world. With some of the best universities already offering courses thru this platform, soon we…

The Desire for “More” Derives from School In every classroom, there are an abundance of different students that attend school for several reasons. Some of those reasons may be to graduate and venture to college, to play sports in college, to get a brighter education, or just to receive their diploma at the end of one’s twelve year-period of struggle and chaos. Each person has a goal that is different than another’s, but there are some students who struggle with the question of why to stay in…