As Richard Hersh, former president of Trinity College and Hobert and William Smith College says, “Higher education is about the future. And it is about the way in which we travel to the future in terms of being prepared, or it’s the way in which we fail the future.” I think that being prepared is one of the first and biggest challenges freshman college students encounter. As Matt Morris, a freshman at a regional university in Kentucky, was moving in he was already aware he was not ready for the academic demands of college. “I could have been a straight ‘A’ student in high school,” says Matt, “I
uestion, “Why am I going to college?” Many college students really don’t have a clear reason for being there other than the fact that they don’t know what else to do yet. They inherit goals from family and peers which aren’t truly their own. That was how I started college. Is this you as well? As I’ve stated previously on this blog, the three-semester deal wasn’t my first time at college.
From the beginning of my school career, my elders always stressed the importance of education. Throughout high school, I never understood why an education was so important, I often would goof off or not take my studies seriously. While most high school graduates are deciding where to go to college and what to study, I decided to focus on raising a family. When my youngest child turned three, I finally entered the workforce. This is when I realized how important a college education really was.
I decided to go back to school and get a college education, I knew my work schedule would not permit me to go into an actual classroom so i opted for the next best, online college. Why is college education is important?The U.S. has been transformed from a manufacturing based economy on knowledge,and the importance of a college education today can be compared to that of a high school education forty years ago. One important answer to this question is more opportunity to get that promotion and move ahead to a better brighter future. During our high school careers many students ask themselves the same question. The answer is that, more than ever a college education is necessary.
$53.50 per audio CD, $33.50 per manual and $66.50 per computer startup kit (Millon, Strack, Millon, & Grossman, 2006). I. Time required to administer: 20-25 minutes J. Purpose for which evaluated: Helps counselors identify, predict, and understand common psychological issues that can be seen among college students (Millon, Strack,
College Comparison Essay As you slowly edge toward the end of high school, there is an important decision and choice we all have to make. Which college are you going to? Most teenagers dream of that one perfect college, even since they were a kid. But as you grow older, you have to face the truth: What exactly defines the college you want? Many factors play in this decision like location, weather, scholarship, majors, tuition and sometimes even their football team.
Ricardo Carril Maria Kayal English 111 10/3/13 The Journey of Engaging What is higher education? Higher education is beyond high school, at a college or university, learning using critical thinking. In the essay “Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission?” by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus says that “colleges are staffed by thousands and dedicated to everything from esoteric research to vocational training, and have lost their basic mission to challenge the minds of young people who attends to college” (Hacker and Dreifus, 180). In Mike Rose’s essay “Blue-Collar Brilliance” he says “intelligence is closely associated with formal education the type of schooling a person has, how much and how long most people seem to move comfortably from that notion to a belief that work requiring less schooling requires less intelligence” (Rose, 247). Can you tell who’s more convincing at this point?
College Pressures In William Zinsser’s essay College Pressures he identifies multiply, sources of stress faced in college. “I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure” (Zinsser 510). Zinsser argues that students themselves must reduce the pressure they face. Although College Pressures was first published in 1979, it still relates to college students today. Also the author’s description of Yale students is relative to colleges in America everywhere.
Iran claims the recent uranium stockpile is specifically for the use of their peaceful energy program; however, the United States and other P5 countries share the concern that the stockpile and dramatic production increase needs to be stopped immediately, preventing Iran from creating nuclear weapons. Iran’s nuclear program is assumed to be capable of creating a nuclear weapon within the next year. In a speech addressed to the UN General Assembly Netanyahu physically drew a red line on a diagram of a cartoon bomb under a divided section marked, “final stage” (Nichols 1). Netanyahu and other experts suggest that if uranium enrichment stockpiles remain at these levels or increase, Iran will be capable of nuclear weapons and sooner than expected. Netanyahu’s illustration for his speech approximates Iran is 90 percent along the way to the creation of nuclear weapons.
Program Evaluation (Module 8) Final Project August 15, 2008 Introduction This research paper seeks to analyze programs that assist students with their first year transition into college life. Successful programs can aid in fostering the character and moral development of first year students by providing an environment where students can enhance their social and academic skills within their institution. Oftentimes, a student’s first year in college is viewed as a “transitional year” that sets the foundation for a student’s subsequent years in college. (Gardner, 2001) More importantly, however, the first year of a student’s college experience is a time in which the greatest numbers of college students withdraw or drop out from school. (Misra, 2000) Background Attending college can have a profound impact in one’s life from a personal, social and vocational perspective.