Stanford University

season and help attract incoming or transfer students. A group of three thousand students at Duke University completed a survey and were asked why they chose Duke over other universities. A stellar 63% of the students chose Duke over other universities because of the legendary Duke basketball program. Another study from College Weekly Online shows that about 65% of first year students applying to a university always checks the school sports teams before applying. Through the strong support of…

The Stanford Prison Experiment Does giving one person more power than another really change the way that they will react in a certain situation? Do certain circumstances cause a different reaction in different people? That was the question for the Stanford Prison Experiment performed by Phil Zimbardo in 1971. In an attempt to show what life was like to be in prison, the inmates and guards of Stanford County Jail, were placed in an almost inhumane setting. The tyranny of the men in charge, along…

exceptional professors. However, if Deresiewicz is correct and what matters is the individual, what are the elite universities doing for a student who is likely going thousands of dollars into debt to attend? Ivy league universities and other top tier schools are not, in fact, providing the highest quality education possible or promoting genuine…

Due to the growing prevalence of cheating in a Higher Education setting, Universities should create and enforce legitimate repercussions to those students caught cheating, in order to avoid the collapse of Higher Education, as we know it today. As Professor Doom writes, graduating cheaters degrades the institution from which they come, no matter how sparse. While a degree is a degree, they are only as strong as the establishment from where they come. Students should realize that the degrees they…

Article Recap: Charles Koch Republican billionaire and donor Charles Koch of Koch industries has been reportedly given George Mason University about $48 million between 2011 and 2014.According to a Yahoo Finance report, the public school located outside Washington DC has quietly become a new conservative bastion for economics and law. Tax records indicate that that Charles Koch gives nearly $20 million to hundreds of schools in the US. In 2014, the foundation gave George Mason $16.8 million to…

Introduction Every two minutes an American is sexually assaulted (RAIN STATISTIC). Although we are all encouraged to openly express our human sexuality, women are constantly walking around with the fear of being raped whether they are at home, work, or at school. With the influence of culture, religion, politics and society, America has slowly created a rape culture. A culture that has constantly found different ways to hold victims of sexual assault accountable for while male sexual violence is…

American school: so much science, but little historical culture, poor memory, stereotyped behaviors, total dependence on companies that sponsor books and courses of study. With the result that around the 40% of prestigious American universities (e.g., Harvard, Yale or Stanford) can not say in which century took place the American Civil War and “there are forty-four million of Americans who cannot read and write above a fourth-grade level— in other words, who are…

Dr. Philip Zimbardo was an American psychologist who largely contributed to social psychology with his well-known study: the Stanford Prison Experiment. Zimbardo studied sociology, anthropology, and psychology throughout college and landed a job as a psychology professor. He then began studying cult behavior and mind control, which led to starting of the Stanford Prison experiment. The controversial study led to debates of ethical standards and negative psychological impacts on participants…

Graduate?” by Joseph B. Treaster, he discusses issues of undergraduates not graduating on time. A coalition of multiple of Universities called the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) believe that introduction classes for majors do not determine if a student will be successful. However, they do believe that core classes such as Math, English, and History depending on the university will decide the success of a student. These schools have conducted this speculation with the collected data over…

the Stanford Prison experiment by Asch which demonstrated the dedication of conformity that exists being a part of a group (Lilienfeld, Lynn, Namy, & Woolf, 2013). Not all societal group conformity is negative we can see how being a part of a social group can encourage positive actions that may help people improve their personal lives. We can see this effect in educational settings when an instructor assigns students that are not very interested…