A Critical Examination of Retention and Dropout at City College The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a report conducted by The Learning Alliance to investigate student retention at City College. I found several findings from this report helpful in illuminating the retention problem. 1 a. Hispanic males are the most likely to dropout from City College, followed closely by Asian American males. Non-U.S. female citizens are most likely to persist. The report however does not go into specifics about what ethnicity they are.
5 February 2011 The Power of Academic Conversations In Dr. Gibson break down Plato’s quote could at first listen by the average listener is inappropriate to describe the essence of college learning because it is unclear to indicate that it represents the essence of a college and a university education as I just read this quote. I don’t even know what she tries to say. In the quote, I just know that it is about conversation, but I don’t even know the following words what they represents if I do not keep read the follow paragraph. I am agree with Dr. Gibson says that it is very importance to have conversation at the college. As a college student, it would be so different from a high school student.
Sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter have become the place to go on the Internet. It does not take a scientist to know that generally a college student devotes more time to social networking sites than research. College students spend ridiculous amounts of time checking up on other people’s lives than focusing on more important things like studying and research. Missing friends from home is difficult, especially for a college freshman who is going through the culture shock of living away from home. However, college students need to understand that using social networking sites religiously is not just an issue about the amount of time devoted towards schoolwork, but that it can literally change how they think.
Some students are successful at connecting their in-campus and off-campus activities while other are not. Light asserts that he found out that “those students who make connections between what goes on inside and outside the classroom report a more satisfying college experience” (p. 14). In order to prove this, Light interviewed a few students whose life-decisions had changed because of the meta-curricular activities that they took up during their vacations. Light concluded that this study would be helpful for admission officers who should realize that they should admit their students and then get in their way (in a constructive sense) to help them make these
I am very interested in starting a specific service project my junior year for CAS hours and this would be a great help to me with that. I think that I would be a valuable attendee to CASL because I am a freshman. Anything I learn can be used for all the rest of my four years of high school. I would also be a valuable attendee to the CASL conference because I would easily be able to make up the work that I miss on that Monday from school. I am also one of the older ones out of all my classmates so I would like to go to CASL so that I can learn to be a better leader to those who might look up to me.
In this model students can have internships or participate in work-study programs while completing graduation requirements online. A high school senior who is short a few credits can choose to have a part-time job while making up credits online. A freshman can have a full schedule in the physical building and add an online course or two each semester in an effort to graduate in as little as three years. For us the pinnacle of success in K-12 should be to create a culture of learning that fully prepares students with the abilities to be successful in life. We feel the global pressures for increased digital citizenship and customized learning.
11 December 2014 Drowning in the Discourse Julie Wildhaber says that “A strong, well-defined voice is the bridge between you and your audience: It helps your readers understand who you are, and it helps you engage them” (Wildhaber). For students in college, their audience will always be their professor. Along with expecting a strong voice, professors expect students, even first year students, to master and employ the many other writing skills that make up academic discourse. Most students tend to prioritize the more technical conventions of writing over the development of a distinguished and personalized voice. The conventions of college writing are very complex and if professors are more helpful and patient with first year students as they learn academic discourse, students will be better prepared for all future academic endeavors and they will have a better opportunity to strengthen and develop their voice.
I will be responding to the article “It Doesn’t Test for Success” by Joanne V. Creighton. Colleges, universities, students, and their families should really be questioning college placement test. The SAT’s do not test students’ academic or career potential. Test scores vary depending on schooling and familiarity with English. Also, family’s higher income has an advantage amongst SAT classes or special tutoring.
Jigisha Patel English 1020 – 007 Pharinet, a graduate and daily contributor for Yahoo’s online network, expresses her view on the stance of college not being for everyone in her article, “Is College for Everyone?” The former college graduate uses her experiences in college to consider some of the pressures faced by individuals to attend college. She does so by explaining how it has now become a practice to attend college solely “to get a good job, to please ones parents, or to find oneself.” Pharinet’s purpose is to get the reader to be aware of the fact that there are too many students enrolled in school who simply don’t belong there. Pharinet’s audience is very broad, but it is mainly for future college students and their parents. She says, “not everyone is in need of higher education in order to be successful.” She hopes to get the readers to understand the fact that there is still a need for factory workers, mail carriers and construction workers, people that make a significant difference without a degree. The topic that Pharinet writes about is well discussed because she uses few reasons as to why students decide to attend college.
He warned even possessing a mobile device in an exam room, even if not used for cheating, can lead to a student being failed or marked down by examiners. Meanwhile university examiners are struggling with the growing problem of plagiarism. At university level, one in six students admits to copying work from friends, and one in 10 confesses to looking for essays online, according to a recent survey by The Times Higher Education Supplement. Some 37 per cent of the 1,022 undergraduates polled said they had copied ideas from books, whilst 35 per cent admitted to copying from online sources. Only three per cent said that they had copied text word for word from a book or online source.