Princeton University

Why Your Child Should Take a Gap Year In Europe“1.2 percent of U.S. college freshmen deferred admission to take a gap year in 2011” (Baker). A gap year is a year that a student takes between finishing high school and starting university. This year can be used for whatever a student wants it to be used for, whether that be fishing on a trawler in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, digging wells and erecting schools in South Sudan, or maybe farming in Nebraska, the choice is theirs. Many studies…

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…

That makes going to Trine more cost effective, in a university stand point, education than attending a larger university where students normally spend about five years earning their undergraduate degree. So Trine makes it their goal to graduate students within four years and not the five years it would take at another university. The U.S. News & World Report has ranked Trine as one of the best colleges in the Midwest for students graduating…

It is that time of year again. Incoming freshmen at Northern Illinois University are excited and ready to sign up for housing. Picking where they are going to be living is one of the first choices they make on their road to their new independent college student life. Yet Wait! These new incoming freshmen come upon a roadblock. The mandatory freshman residence policy the school had implemented. First-year students must live in the on-campus residence halls unless they are over twenty-one, married…

academic goals such as attending Harvard, Stanford or Princeton. Some students want to go to sport powerhouses such as Alabama, LSU or Texas. Some students want to stay close to home and choose to attend satellite schools or commuter campuses. Some students take into account financial burden and choose to attend technical schools or community colleges to help cut the cost of education. One thing that is often forgotten by students applying to Universities and colleges is that it is in fact a…

Hannah Adams Dr. Herman Prager TX Government 14 November, 2017 College, What It Was, Is, And Should Be In Andrew Delbanco’s book, College, What It Was, Is, And Should Be, the author explains that students are no longer going to colleges to explore and discover their passions, but instead are attending just to gain an undergraduate degree. He argues that a true education helps students discover themselves. He expresses his concern that many colleges are losing their passion to help students…

nice, it is not necessary, so stressing about not being able to get into a school should not be a problem. In fact most college and universities do not require much to get accepted into their general programs to get you started. According to UsNews.com on their page about some of the top 10 schools with flexible test score like Wake Forest University and Wesleyan University require no Standardized test scores to be accepted. There are several schools like this that provide excellent education…

The film Ivory Tower uses the example of Arizona State University, which is ranked the third highest party school in the US according to College Envy, a website that ranks all party schools in America. Arizona State chooses to spend money on luxury living for students, a large Greek Life network, and big time…

action in higher education has been given to people whom families were not discriminated against by society and can damn near pay for college. Nicolaus Mills’ research on who benefits from affirmative action of which compares and contrast Harvard University studies. Mills finding displays that Harvard’s African American alumni that only about a third of Harvard’s African American students were from families in which all four grandparents were born in America and have descendants of slaves.…

His teaching career at New York University that involves history and education guarantees that he has spent a considerable amount of time working with the very subjects of the topic – college students. It is safe to assume that Zimmerman has a better view of some of the beliefs, views or lifestyles of today’s students. Moreover, he has written a book on the global history of sex education, and it was published by Princeton University. This means he has done extensive research on how…