Through examinations of the lives of students, professors, and administrators, as well as journeys behind the walls of four drastically different college campuses, the film looks to discover if higher education is indeed, on the decline. With more than 14 million students at 4,200 colleges, serious questions are being raised about the quality of teaching and learning, retention and graduation rates and the skills of those who earn their diploma. “Declining by Degrees” takes viewers to college campuses around the country to hear firsthand from students, teachers and administrators who provide candid insights of the national problems and challenges facing higher education in America. It’s a topic too important to ignore. As Richard Hersh, former president of Trinity College and Hobert and William Smith College says, “Higher education is about the future.
In “Can You Be Educated from a Distance”, James Barszvz begins to argue the internet-based instruction with a statistic. He points out that 34 percent and 90 percent of American colleges and larger schools started to offer “distance learning” (DL), respectively. He gives an example that University of Phoenix, which is the largest private university, offers degrees based on online instruction (15:1). He talks about the format of DL and notes that face-to-face communication is limited for students and instructors (16:1). He believes that the reason students take online courses is they think it is convenient.
Zach, Addressing the Assignment: You did pretty well here over all, I’d probably give you a B-. You comprehend the topic well as well as meet the requirements. However, I see more of explanations of or from your sources than I do your own ideas. As well as there wasn’t any reference at all to the handouts & readings that was assigned in coincided with the essay. Even though they weren’t a requirement mentioning them & making a few connections would help your paper along.
Lombardi and reporter Kristin Jones spent a year surveying schools’ and students’ on campus rape cases. Their conclusion from the survey was that campus sexual assault remains a hidden crime, in part, because there is no central clearinghouse for colleges to report cases and to record their dispositions. Ombardi claims more legislation is needed and that current ones need to be amended. Kristen Lombardi is a staff writer and an award-winning journalist from the Center for Public Integrity. Her investigation into campus rape cases for the Center won the Robert F. Kennedy Award and the Dart Award in 2011, which state her survey a recent source and very valuable.
One major plus of having such enhancements is that many cannot seem to find any horrible long lasting affects of taking them. Again, it kind of seems like Adderall was made specifically for the college student. In contrast, even though there are no stereotypical long lasting affects you receive from other stimulant drugs, there are still a few cons of taking this medicine. One of these cons includes a development of a psychological dependence to the drug. For example, a student that had taken this drug throughout their college career and enjoyed the positive feedback they received from taking it may feel as if they cannot positively accomplish any tasks with out the help of this enhancement.
This monograph by Mary C. McComb on how college youth and experts negotiate their class identity as "middle class" during the economic crises of the Great Depression enters this conceptual quagmire, but although she occasionally comes close to tripping a fuse, she emerges with some illuminating pathways. McComb has crafted a tidy research monograph with well chosen cases in order to focus on the formation of a class-based discourse on middle-class identity in a decade when the economic basis of class privilege was undermined by weakened depression-era prospects. Close readings of student newspapers at five colleges and Universities contrast the views of relatively privileged Amherst College men with those of their female peers at Mount Holyoke. She then sets these perspectives against those of less elite collegiate youth at two additional private institutions, but in these cases coeducational schools in urban settings (Washington, DC) with distinctly different racial student bodies-the white George Washington University and the black Howard University. Finally, McComb fills out her research with the case of students from a land grant public university, the University of Michigan, where she was completing the dissertation on which this book was based.
Emily Horner Professor Lafond English Comp 1 9 October 14 Education Systems Over the last 50 years the college graduation rates has been unpredictable. There are many different theories that people have come up with as to why this is happening. For example, some theories include every generation of students continues to get even more intelligent than the one before or the curriculum that is being taught has changed. Brent Staples, author of Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's, seems to think that it is all because of the administration. While on the other hand, Geoffrey Canada, education advocate from TED Talks, seems to think that curriculum and the business plan haven't changed at all in the last 50 years because people are
The discovery of a Google doc collection of Columbia University application essays became fodder for Gawker snark. And arguably the most viral bit of college-admission content ever was an op-ed earlier this year from a high schooler complaining about (or lampooning) the gap between university and applicant expectations. The whole notion of new media incursion into the staid realm of the application essay may sound a little fishy to you. But the reality is almost exactly the opposite of the knee-jerk stereotype. The influence of technology on the application process is more subtle; nobody is getting into a school because of a good tweet.
David Berry at the University of Kentucky. His group of fakers was reviewed on the ADHD Rating Scale which was developed by Barkley and Murphy and on the Conners Adult ADHD Rating Scale. The people giving the test could not distinguish between the fakers, who had spent five minutes on google learning what signs to display in order to trick assessors, and the real ADHD group. (University tests) This generation of computer literate youth needs to only google the symptoms of ADHD to be able to fool many doctors? That’s a little scary.
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.