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Students Are Consumers, Colleges Are Businesses

where and how they acquire higher education is both grand and far-reaching; that universities are feeling the financial pinch of s...

Behaviorism/Teaching College Students

focused on operant rather classical conditioning (Mergel, 1998). Operant conditioning refers to "voluntary behaviors used in opera...

Endicott’s Purpose of Education

on internships, as well as through the pedagogy practiced by its faculty. As the mission statement for Endicott College implies, i...

Student Debt: Whose Fault is it?

to make changes in the federal student loan program that will make it more costly for students and their parents to borrow for col...

A Frenchman at Vesalius College

life and work in Brussels, the opportunity is there to learn a great deal about international relations. I do find myself wonderi...

A College Education or a Job?

in a young persons life: for the first time you will be earning your own living and the importance of this milestone cannot be ove...

Communities Define Our Lives

college because they love learning, or want to get a good job, or are fascinated by a particular field. Many of them are there to ...

College Student Housing

The student is familiar with their "roommates" and thus does not have to have any additional stress concerning relationships when ...

Average Weekly Hours Students Study

going into statistical explanations, every empirical study establishes a confidence level that reports how much confidence the res...

Colorado’s Amendment 36 - Why It Failed

of the states nine electoral votes and Kerry the other four (Saffron, 2005). As the system is structured now, all nine went to Bus...

Admissions Essay for Springfield College

addressed. I believe that as a family lawyer, I can help people with mental illness by becoming an advocate for people like my si...

Differential Association Theory and Drug Use: A Literature Review

to peer influences related to drug abuse. The review of literature begins with information directly from Sutherland and his peers....

Two Educations

were doing nothing but scraping along wondering if we will be able to survive until the next check, life can be very difficult and...

Prevention And Treatment Programs For Alcohol Abuse

prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...

Steroid Abuse in Major League Baseball

2007, p. 128). After all, if 23 New York Mets players have either taken in the past or are currently taking performance-enhancing...

Should Race be a Consideration in College Admissions?

former Harvard University president Derek Bok and former Princeton president William Bowen, have maintained that preferential trea...

Basic Skills Initiative

2007). These are considered the foundation skills for success in college level education (Illowsky, 2007). The BSI itself is inten...

Effective Ecological Volunteerism

while people care about global warming, they do not care enough to "give up their cars or sacrifice a standard of living based on ...

External Influences on Different Types of Organizations

as a luxury when it is undertaken to leisure purposes. If there is an economic downturn within an economy, such as one which is oc...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

Case Study Questions/Cognitive Development, Young Adults

those who hold beliefs or attitudes different from themselves (Broderick and Blewitt 354). Angela is clearly at this opening level...

The Spelman Experience

much interest sparked. Perhaps the primary reason for this is the low student to teacher ratio as well as the caliber of the staff...

How College Program Supports Career Goals

and even the safety of the elevators (Salary.com, 2007). This is an extremely broad requirement of the job and, in fact, says the ...

Cabrini College Mural

homeless children in New York (McCabe, 2008). It is also perhaps important to understand that this mural may also be depicting an ...

Personal Action Plans

ensure that anything handed in is original student work. This includes taking steps to ensure that materials that are utilized ar...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Is the "Freshman Fifteen" a Real Phenomenon?

gaining weight in college is no myth. It is a reality for many students and there are reasons behind the phenomenon. A study rep...

Going Off to College, Psychological Theories

This essay describes going off to college as a major life event that can be explained using psychodynamic, behavioral and cognitiv...

Is a College Degree Worth the Investment

The author addresses the pros and cons of obtaining a college degree. The cost of this choice is an obvious consideration. There...

Generation Me and Community College Catalogs

This 4 page paper gives an overview of images on a community college catalog and how it relates to members of Generation Me. This ...