Universities and colleges in Michigan

secondary schools in the United States. According to the Michigan Department of Education, in 2015 there were about 823,395 secondary students in Michigan. In addition according to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2013 there were approximately 15,531,950 public and private school students that attend 41,368 public and private secondary schools in the United States. Thus, there is a large market of potential users in Michigan and in the United…

My brothers and I all went to college but did not finish under different circumstances relating to work or family with my youngest brother suffering a similar faith to Langan in college due to our mother neglecting to fill out the required financial paperwork. This story is similar to many under privileged individuals who might miss out on success due to issues…

Colleges care immensely about impressions of their campuses to the expense of some of their students. Amy Becker reports in her article “91 Percent of Colleges Reported Zero Incidents of Rape in 2014” that of 11,000 campuses, 91 percent disclosed zero reports of rape in 2014. This appears as a wonderful statistic however it fails to match with research, campus surveys, or experiences reported by college students. In 2013, the Congress authorized the act Violence Against Women Act to address…

* New Evidence That Demands a Verdict — named one the twentieth century’s top 40 books and one of the thirteen most influential books of the last 50 years on Christian thought by World Magazine. * I did my research from the book, New Evidence That Demands a Verdict. This book is separated into four parts and I focused on Part 1: The Case for the Bible. Slide 7: * In New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, Josh McDowell expresses his reasoning for the truth in Christianity through his…

next step after high school is college, and college has many differences from high school. When applying to college, the main factors prospective students, look at are required test scores, the necessary grade point averages, and tuition costs. While those are important factors to consider, not many people realize that some schools are more stressful than others, have higher drug and alcohol addiction rates, and high sexually transmitted diseases percentages. College is a great choice for…

Aida Hurtado Aida Hurtado is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Possessing over 130 publications, including nine books and forty-three policy reports, Hurtado is one of the highest-ranking Chicana faculty members in the University of California system (AAHHE, 2017). Dr. Hurtado’s research focuses upon social/group identity and language. She specializes in unequal distributions of power between social groups like ethnicity, race, class, and gender. Recent books…

The Continued Fight of Feminism in the 1930s-1950s: Housewives in Theory, Not in Action The period between what is thought of as the first and second waves of feminism popularly shows women as happy housewives, which might seem odd since suffrage was just granted and women should want to use their new political power to expand their roles, yet the expansion of women’s rights does not happen again until the 1960s. So what caused this change from a strong suffragette to a delicate housewife? To…

Collin Rust 11/28/2017 Professor Smith The Case for Reforming Affirmative Action Since affirmative action was first fashioned up and implemented by President John F. Kennedy on March 6th 1961 through the use of an executive order, the program that was designed to help boost the role of historically wronged racial classes (Sander, 2013). This was originally seen by many scholars as an absolutely necessary measure in order to help bring together a nation that had been historically divided by race.…

otherwise, the student-athlete form that waives their right to receive payment for the use of their name and likeness. Just like college students, student athletes work hard and devote their time to their classes. However, not only do student athletes have to keep their grades up to stay eligible to play, they also spend additional training and practicing to win games for the university. Form 08-3a defines student-athletes as the amateur, which cannot make money from playing their respective…

responsibility to keep students excited, involved, and engaged, both inside and outside of the classroom. I feel like a lot is expected of college students, meanwhile juggling their own responsibilities, they work hard, stressful hours that can be tough. They deserve all the benefits and extras that a college campus can offer. With this it will help the University develop the idea they have of well-rounded students. UT doesn’t have anywhere for students to destress on campus, to relax, and…