Also stated was that Presidents of colleges were being overpaid. They go on to say Colleges shouldn't have to pay more to get a qualified President to run their school. The President should be pleased with a modest salary and if they aren’t then they probably don't need to have the title anyhow. Another suggestion was that spin-off schools preoccupy faculties and school presidents. They state that it takes away the much needed attention
He then argues that albeit people may cerebrate that college graduates with liberal arts degrees are having a more arduous time finding good jobs, that is not the case. In authenticity today’s job market is arduous for all college graduates, regardless of their major. In his third point, Ungar disputes the view that the liberal arts are particularly extraneous for low-income individuals. He verbalizes that they albeit they may not have the same edifying background as their more affluent peers, they catch up expeditious. They deserve the well-rounded edification that the liberal arts has to offer as much as anyone else.
Murray and Ungar Synthesis In the many recent debates about how to approach higher education, one issue that has constantly appears is the question of students benefiting from a liberal arts based education. Some argue that a liberal arts education is helpful in teaching students the basic life skills, others claim that a more specific field of study is necessary in order to b successful in life. In Ungar’s essay “the New Liberal Arts”, he claims that with a liberal arts education, students can benefit tremendously when they receive their jobs. In Murray’s essay “Are Too Many People Going to College”, he proclaims that a liberal arts degree is not highly recommended because the more difficult careers want students to take classes that are more specific to a job. Sanford J. Ungar and Charles Murray both conduct and display their own opinion towards the facts they learned through their own strenuous research.
He goes on to say in the second misperception, “college graduates are finding it harder to get good jobs with liberal arts degrees”, but “the recession has no differentiated among major fields of study in its impact” (192). Ungar believes students who focus on one particular field of study do not learn necessities such as writing and literary texts, and this puts them at a disadvantage when compared to a liberal arts graduate. While long-standing jobs, such as doctors and lawyers, will not become extinct soon, liberal arts graduates have a better chance of employment in most areas. 95% of employers surveyed would give hiring preference to graduates with skills to contribute in the workplace. 74% would recommend a liberal arts education to a young person they know today, so they will be prepared for success in today’s global economy.
The groundswell may be perceived as a threat to traditions and ingrained habits of teaching. Open communication between and among students, teachers, parents, and administrators can only serve to create an environment of understanding and
And above all else, money for instance, it seems to make them healthier and happier. The first of the anti-college arguments to be explored is the ever so misleading financial burden, the money. Leonhardt give two main reasons why the increasing student debt and startling tuition costs aren’t normally a problem for graduating students. First off, once you look into college tuition rates and any financial aid is taken into account, average fees and tuition were only about $2,000 at public four-year colleges(647). His next big point
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.
Misbehavior is less likely to recur if a student makes a commitment to avoid the action and to engage in more desirable alternative behaviors.”(Kizlik, 2012). I believe that I have a more to learn about classroom management and policy, especially dealing with punishment and consequences. The use of praise in my classroom management style might be good. In the use and way I praise students matched the use of best practices of more seasoned professionals. I have linked praised with student performance and instruction.
Katie Gathman Professor Star College Comp 16 October 2013 Pro Co-Mingling Legislation Apart of the typical every day college experience would involve the opposite sex. Usually having mingled classes with both male and female is a good part of the college experience since it gives the opportunity to expand a persons social circle and gives the chance to intermingle with the opposite sex. Some students have come from all boy and all girl high schools, which they may not of experienced the opportunity to socialize and talk with the opposite sex. Saying all of this, I am against the Anti Co-Mingling Legislation because I believe that socialization with the opposite sex will help later in life, having the opposite sex in a classroom does
“For Once, Blame The Student” The article “For once, blame the student” by Patrick Welsh expresses the idea that American students are falling behind academically not because of the common excuses themselves. I agree with the article and have seen through first-hand experience as a student that a large portion of American students have lost the internal motivation and determination needed to succeed academically, i.e. my 7th period. In “For once, blame the student” Welsh talks about the way students who have emigrated to the United States often do better in school than the middle and upper class American students. Welsh says the reasoning behind the emigrated student’s success is the self determination and motivation to do well in school, as well as hard work exerted by the students.