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The Evolution of Curriculum in Post-Secondary Education Throughout the 1700s, nine colleges (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, William and Mary, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Brown, and Columbia) were founded throughout the thirteen original colonies for religious purposes. While each of these colleges were either secular or had different religious denominations, all of these colleges had their curriculum modeled after that in the English college system. This curriculum included…

Freire Wilmington is pleased to be partnering for this grant with our long-term evaluation partner, Dr. Alex Schuh of FRONTIER 21 Education Solutions. Dr. Schuh has served as our 21st Century program evaluator in Pennsylvania for 6 years, and has evaluated 13 21st C CLC programs since the program began. Dr. Schuh will develop the evaluation and data collection plan, selecting high quality and suitable indicators to measure participants’ academic achievement, behavioral improvements, preparation…

The average college student graduates with over $25,000 in student debt, a 25% increase in the past ten years. The amount of student debt has risen at an alarming rate in the past decade. To put things in perspective, Americans owe more money in student debt than credit card debt. It’s important to closely evaluate the causes and effects of rising student debt in regards to its influence on America’s youth and economy. The student debt crisis is more apparent today than ever before. With student…

educational plan was to attend Penn State Harrisburg as a double major in Political Science and Psychology, to which I have already been accepted. However, the opportunity to attend a community college with a very strong relationship with my main institution was one I could not pass, especially given the lower cost of attendance and high transferability of credits. My goal is to transfer or graduate from HACC without having accumulated debt so that my time at Penn State Harrisburg will go…

Boston University, Lycoming College, and Johns Hopkins are all good schools with graduates that became successful. Each school offers different programs and courses to help an undergraduate student get into medical school. Boston University, Lycoming College, and Johns Hopkins all have strong biology programs, the colleges also have other courses that would benefit someone going into the medical field, but each school has different requirements per course. Boston University is a large, urban,…

ideal college for me to attend would be Temple University’s School of Media and Communication, located in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. This is an ideal college for me, because after college, I hope to pursue a career in Sports Broadcasting, hopefully with a team in the Philadelphia area. Going to Temple is important to me because my siblings and father both attended Temple University. Temple is my preferred school at the moment, because I’m currently there about twice a week attending sporting…

There are 105 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the nation. In 1965, in Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965, Congress officially defined an HBCU as an institution whose principal mission was and is the education of black Americans, was accredited and was established before 1964. The first HBCU, CHEYNEY University in Pennsylvania was founded in 1837. All HBCUs play a critical role in the American higher education system. For most of America's history, African…

college search I was only looking at small Pennsylvania schools, just like most of my peers. I was settling for less than I really wanted because I believed it was all my mother could afford for me and I didn't want to step out of my comfort zone and try to go out of state, I was doing myself a great disservice. College was a big deal since my mom and dad both could not attend and my family always thought I would be the one who could do it. The University Of Arizona was actually my moms idea at…

Throughout most of our life, people have been told that if they go to college and set our goals, they will achieve a prosperous future. Nowadays, High Schools are teaching students that they need to go to college in order to succeed in life, which is in fact highly inaccurate. Colleges have been around since the 1600s and through out the years, the cost for college has increased dramatically. Bernie Sanders quoted, “The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving…

current dollar prices for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board were estimated to be $16,188 at public institutions, $41,970 at private nonprofit institutions, and $23,372 at private for-profit institutions.” (“Tuition costs of colleges and universities”, par.1) Between 2005 and 2015, prices for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board at public institutions increased 33 percent, and prices at private nonprofit institutions increased…