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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…

devoted to the Jesuit traditions of an assimilated education and of creative research in the liberal arts, including, humanities, fine arts languages, and social sciences. Main and Medical Campuses are situated on 54 buildings on 104 acres. The university was founded on the belief that serious and constant discourse among…

Greenwich University is a mid-sized, four-year, public institution located in the heart of a city in the northwestern part of the United States. The university boasts a very diverse population of approximately 16,000 students. The campus overall is very diverse and multicultural relationships are apart of the campus. The Office of Student Activities is home to over 100 different clubs and organizations on campus, including a thriving number of various religious organizations. The office handles…

The institution of college sports is enjoyed in the US as a part of popular culture. The college sports is a big institution in the US. For decades, students have been accepted to universities with strong sports merits. So college should not consider sports as the main reason to allow college acceptance. Perspective 1 states that colleges should support their sports team. For most people sports creates unity amongst students by fostering school spirit. However, sports should not be the main…

federal courts decided on various cases of free speech, traces of history of academic freedom of universities, and what the issues at stake in colleges hosting academic centers sponsored by authoritarian regimes. The controversies concerning how far speech extends according to the articles free…

revolt by African-American students at the University of Missouri has forced two top officials to resign. On Monday, President Tim Wolfe said he is quitting, and Columbia campus Chancellor R. Bowen Loft in announced he will be stepping down by the end of the year, in the face of protests over their handling of racism on campus. Those protests and others have provoked a debate over racism and free speech at colleges across. Tim Wolfe is not the first president who come under fire because he was…

What I have learned about the university that I have been doing as an assignment on is a lot of things because I didn't know anything about Stanford University before this project. My group members and I have each learned something important about this University. I have learned that it's one of the world's leading technological universities. I have also learned that in order to get into this university you have to have at least a 4.8 gpa that tells me that the students there are very hard…

Top-tier universities in the United States are known to be very prestigious and very costly to attend, however it is UNLV’s main goal to be ranked up there with these schools. Universities are measured and ranked by each of the school’s academic quality. In order to separate the universities into each Tier, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions measures specific key factors; for example, graduation rates, number of doctoral degrees awarded, university’s research output, spending, and grant…

“Get Football Out of Our Universities” Should football be in our universities? In “Get Football Out of Our Universities”, the author, Steven Salzburg, attempts to argue that football shouldn’t be in our colleges and universities. This is not a persuasive essay because he doesn’t try to force his opinion on you but rather to argue the facts. He states facts that might in return make you change your opinion but his sole purpose isn’t to persuade you into anything. In this article, the author uses…

out of obligation or modernization. The 2003 Supreme Court ruling regarding affirmative action, admission practices at the University of Michigan necessitated the increase for Chief Diversity Officers in higher education (Gose, 2006). The interpretation and need for a CDO is contingent upon the culture of individual intuitions, and in the case of Central Regional University, the accreditation board…