Is College even ‘Relevant’ Today? In a January 3,2010 article titled “Making College ‘Relevant’,” written by Kate Zernike, and published by the New York Times, shows how colleges and universities across the country are shedding light on majors that are not as popular as they were before, for example: paleontology. The articles main focus is how today’s college students are only planning for a well paid career and not allowing time for self-development in college. “Katherine Brooks, director of liberal arts career center at University of Texas states, ‘students think too much about majors. But the major isn’t nearly as important as the toolbox of skills you come out with and the experiences you have’”(Zernike).
Also, family’s higher income has an advantage amongst SAT classes or special tutoring. Creighton uses personal reference and statistical facts to persuade the audience to go against SAT testing. I agree with Creighton’s argument that SAT’s should not determine a students’ eligibility for college. SAT’s do not test an individual’s performance on relevant or irrelevant potential. The SAT might have made sense when it was developed in the 1920s, when higher education was an elitist proposition and the college admission pipeline led a relatively homogeneous population of young adults into a similarly uni-dimensional set of colleges and universities (Creighton).
College right after highs school is not for everyone. I do believe that all people can benefit from a college degree when the time is right for them. Returning to college later in life can be the result of real life career experience and the realization of what it really takes to get ahead in life. Motivation, learning style, and career goals can have a great impact on your success or failure as an adult student. I tried college right after high school but dropped out because I felt like I was wasting time and money.
This article from Fox News is about the Governor of Maryland signing a bill that requires public universities to give undocumented aliens in-state tuition privileges. Through this bill and others that are already in place, people believe that undocumented immigrants will be receiving more benefits than American citizens. The main argument throughout this article is whether undocumented aliens, which are commonly illegal immigrants, should be given the same benefits as regular citizens. Admission officers usually favor people like this because they add diversity to the campus and "have a real story to tell". Obama believes that school systems should not punish a undocumented student for the mistakes of their parents, regardless of whether they are an illegal immigrant.
In the real world this means giving minorities job positions, which other won’t do, or accepting students into college depending on their race. One might think, he/she is helping an individual, but for how much longer can we help certain minorities and neglect others. It seemed to be a good gesture at first when theses ethnicities were being mistreated and neglected, but now that the “wars” are over we should focus on the ones in dyer need, not based on what happened fifty years
Angel Alvarez Professor Tarkan-Blanco ENC 1102 13 May 2012 Reading Response One In “College Pressures”, William Zinsser shares his personal experiences as a dean in Bradford College, in hopes of breaking the pressures induced to college students, and stopping the erroneous idea in Zinsser’s view, “How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person.” (452) Zinsser believes that college years should be a joyful, enriching, and cultural experience to college students instead of an agonizing mapped road towards a monotonous career. Zinsser reminds his students “... The road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns that they think. there will be plenty time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches.” (451) Thus, Zinsser advices the student body to take chances and explore
Ronald Salamat 10-21-11 English 101-002 Analytical Essay The written text I chose to analyze is “College Is a Waste of Time and Money” by Caroline Bird. In this written text Caroline Bird talks about the options you receive if you don’t attend college. The money we spend by going to college can be used for so much more things that can benefit us is many ways. She says we only attend college because we feel obligated to go when we really have a choice whether or not to really attend. What she’s trying to get out of this essay is her opinion on attending college and makes you also question the thought of college.
Attending College vs. Not Attending College Ashley Jarolim COM/170 April 9, 2012 Joyce Cottonham “Attending College vs. Not Attending College” Some people decide that college is a great asset for their future careers. Others, on the other hand belief that good honest hard work will give them all the satisfaction they need. The disadvantages of not attending college far outweigh the advantages of getting an education. Many people often consider which is the best choice for them after graduating from high school, should they go to college or not? Whichever choice that anyone makes should always be a well thought out decision.
Of course not. But common sense, and the overwhelming preponderance of evidence, should make it obvious to college admissions officers where to concentrate their energies. (Ilya Somin) Despite the politically correct lip service paid to equal employment and a color-blind society, entrenched elitism continues to be a barrier. When one author earned her doctorate in education at 35, after more than 10 years of practical experience, she was informed that she would need at least 20 years of work experience to qualify for an entry-level university teaching position. She challenged the obvious unfairness of the situation; many currently working white teachers and some high-level university administrators had neither a doctorate degree nor 20 years' work experience.
Kara Thibodeau 8/6/2014 FYS article 1.) After reading the article “What’s So Good about a College Education?” by Andrew P. Mills my thoughts about college were quickly changed. As said in the article “A college education-in particular, a broad-based, multidisciplinary, liberal arts education-is useful for so much more” College isn’t all about what I had in mind, before reading this article I chose the major of nursing. I was debating between nursing and psychology, the only things I was thinking about while choosing a major was; how much money will I make? And what am I going to do with this major?