Yale University

former Yale Professor William Deresiewicz, outlines the current higher education system in the United States. In this book, Deresiewicz gives critique and praise to two different types of higher education institutions: elite schools and liberal arts schools. The author analyzes how society as a whole views the higher education system and how it is (or is not) used as a time of growth in a young adult’s life. In Excellent Sheep, there is a lot of criticism revolving Ivy League schools such as…

Last a Lifetime Students need to consider many factors when deciding whether to attend a university or a junior college. Most students do not know whether to go to a junior college or a university and many tend to struggle with the decision. If an individual wants to branch out and live without the guidance of parents or family, then one should choose a university. Compared to a junior college, universities offer more beneficial opportunities that drive students to excel later in life, including…

in the country, but in the world. I went to a nationally competitive high school and applied to 3 Ivy League colleges as well as my local school and parent’s alma maters, Duke University. My high school was fortunate enough to have graduated a plethora of students attending Harvard University, Yale University, Duke University, an UNC Chapel Hill. The rigor of my high school was very high, and the results have been shown. This unfortunately breeds a lot of pressure and competitiveness for…

become more frequent. But, for how often campus rape occurs it doesn't get reported as much. Universities have done many things to hide it from the general public when someone is sexually assaulted on their campus. One reason for this is because many of the perpetrators are college athletes. A college athlete committing sexual assault can damage the school’s reputation, so they try to hide it. Universities can hide it when their players commit campus rape because they are often responsible for…

my education past high school and am now starting to generate ideas of where to go for college. Harvard. Yale. Ivy League. Out of state. These ideas have circled my head for years, and I have made it my target to attend a school that reaches their criteria. Going out of state has a higher cost than attending in-state, and Ivy League schools charge much more than a majority of other universities. My dream schools cost a fortune, however, this scholarship would…

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…

In 1983, the cost of a public universities was $3,433. That figure would be in the value of the dollar at its current market value. The price in 2013 was $18,110. That figure is also using the current value of the dollar (Fast Facts). In thirty years, the cost of a bachelor’s degree has increased approximately 527%. The costs and time to attain a college degree is expensive without a doubt. A chart published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the employment data for people over 25 years of…

the 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…

According to Bernie Sanders campaign website, we need to focus on making college tuition free and follow in the footstep of Germany. The problem is, free tuition in Germany is not working out as well as it was supposed to according the Yale Free Press. Students in college are somehow paying for it or getting help to pay for college. They are most likely working and paying their way, their parents are helping them out, they have taken out loans, or maybe they are getting financial aid. No…

There is a battle raging on between traditional and online education. Many people believe that because the students aren’t being lectured within the old fashion “bricks-and-mortar” classroom, that they aren’t learning like typical students at a university. They also believe that online teachers are just playing pretend. In his essay Combating Myths About Distance Education which is published in the Chronicle of Higher Learning, Todd Gilman effectively appeals to his audience of educators,…