Universities and colleges

today: an intelligent, conscientious, and passion driven individual. Now that my senior year has come, I am beyond ready to start my journey at Iowa State University. All my life I have been surrounded with adults who tell me, “Education is key.” Over the years I have realized how true that is. Education is my main priority. Being accepted to college has been my motivation for earning good grades in school. My experiences, good and bad, have created the person I am. Who would I be without them? …

Social media has helped a lot throughout the years as technology has advanced. It has helped people in many ways from communicating, looking for a college or university, and business. Social media has helped the community by being more extensive with communication. Back in the old times, there were no smart phones. When someone called you would just pick up the phone and said, “Hello.” It would be hard to communicate with people in some occasions. You might have been stuck in traffic, run into a…

Florida or as far north as Toronto. The ideas and culture of those around me have always been the same. This has limited my time for growth as a college student; whereas, studying abroad in Sydney would grant me the experience of a new culture, new ideas, and a new opportunity to learn about myself. Sydney offers vast choices to not only enhance my college education, but to be an essential part of it. i will be in a city foreign to me with little to no familiarity of the people or my…

Campus safety has always been a major priority for most colleges across the country. This unfortunately wasn’t the case for some universities back then. On April 16, 2007, a Virginia tech Senior managed to kill a total of 32 people on campus. Campus safety soon than became an important issue for universities around the nation and the outcome of this incident is best described as a “trigger for the growing number of campus safety resources nationwide”, said by Jill Castellano. As every year…

One and five college students experience sexual assault during their college career. Today, one of the most dangerous realities that young adults face is the risk of sexual assault (Colleges, 2016). Sexual assault on college campuses has always been a major issue. In the past, more often than not, sexual assault on college campuses were pushed under the rug, making it seem as if they did not occur. In today 's society the topic of sexual assault on college campuses is no longer being…

I’ve always believe having firearms on college campus will have more negative effects that outweigh the positives. By having firearms on campus we are at risk at having another University of Austin or Virginia Tech incident. Supporters of the open carry argue that in the case of an active shooter on campus the students and faculty armed with a permit to carry a handgun can protect the lives of many. Which is true to an extent, but many shooters are normally not only armed with assault weapons…

post-secondary institutions. Several The cycle of sexual violence is being facilitated by universities due to their lack of accountability and transparency. Many universities lack stand alone sexual violence policies and instead slot them into a general student code of conduct (Marshall, 2016). It is essential that all post-secondary institutions have a clear process to respond to and address incidents of sexual violence. Universities have more extensive policies to address academic dishonesty,…

of approximately 60 students on a recent recruiting visit to the Texas A&M University insinuated by a selected few student from TAMU. A small group of approximately twelve white college students approached two African American students from Uplift Hampton Preparatory; a charter public school mainly of students of lower socioeconomic status, and minorities. The article went into detailed interactions of the group of college aged students toward the young group of students from the high school.…

Thank you for considering The University of North Florida as your home for the next four years. The admissions team is very displeased to inform you that there will not be room here for you at our college. After reviewing your essay and application we were all very entertained but doubtful we would ever be able to meet you. My favorite part of your application had to be when you explained why you didn’t do very well in your Spanish three class, “I got a C- in Spanish because yo no hablo…

Ingram states that this new study proves further that Duke’s study was flawed. The University College of London took 2,612 individuals to study; compared to a weak number of 38 individuals done by Duke (Ingraham). Also the new study took a total of seven years to complete. In the end, they concluded there was no relationship between cannabis…