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Minority Serving Institutions: Educating All Students By: Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania & Clifton F. Conrad, University of Wisconsin, Madison & Associates • The purpose of the Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Models of Success study, was to understand the work and contributions of MSIs by analyzing 12 MSIs throughout the United States. • Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Overview o MSIs emerged in response to a history of inequity, lack of minority people’s access to…

Big universities have cafeterias that are open until late and that is when most of the students tend to eat more because most of them don’t have breakfast so they eat late. The food that those cafeterias serve isn’t always the healthiest food. They serve cakes…

However, there are people who might think that thousands of dollars of debt won’t get the job. Many have chosen to dropout and many have succeeded. As someone in college, I have to think of the different possibilities before any decision making. The University of Irvine is a risk to take, but so is dropping out of school now. I’m not a risk-taker and I want to succeed…

the others indicating that irresponsible college drinking is a misconception. This article doesn’t state that college drinking does not occur but that the image of college students being “drunkards” is mostly myth. With utilization of a study from University of North Carolina found that 2 out of 3 students did not did on the nights they were at parties and mon-wed 85% had no alcohol in their system. With these finding they ruled that this standard stereotype did not fit. From this study it…

Raffi Wineburg, a graduate from the University of British Columbia and now an intern at The Jerusalem Post, writes Lip Service Useless for Millennials in order to get an emotional response from his readers. Published in The Seattle Times in the summer of 2014, this article addresses the problems facing Millennials when it comes to finding jobs as well as the misplaced judgment they receive. Because this article was printed in a daily newspaper, the people reading this article most likely are…

They start by delivering with bicycles, a phone and very simple office. Few years after Casey become multibillionaire and the company is now employing 400 000 people all around the world and 8.8 millions clients everyday. Logistic providers has known lot of changes due to the consumer behavior’s evolution and obliged the delivery professionals to adapt the service to new environment thanks to the technological progress. The globalization and the liberalization of the markets enable the opening…

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…