SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Why American Colleges Should Provide Their Own Rankings

Essays 961 - 990

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 ...

Basic Skills Initiative

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

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...

Procrastination and GPA

health when deadlines are far off" (Chu and Choi, 2005, p. 245). On the other hand, the Tice and Baumeister study also reported th...

BUILDING A UNIVERSITY-BASED SENIOR COMMUNITY/FLORIDA

be done to try to curtail these costs, while keeping high-quality education intact. One such method that some institutions ...

History of the Hebrews

author points out, it would be impossible to spend as much time on each and every event and person mentioned in the Old Testament....

College Students and Emotional Issues

1,100 students who commit suicide (ABC News, 2005). Apparently there has also been an incredibly strong increase in the number of ...

PERSONAL ESSAY: COLLEGE YEARS AND LESSONS LEARNED

asked to declare a major during my freshman year, I said business. But I really had my eye on becoming that NBA star, at least unt...

E-BOOKS, TEXTBOOKS AND COLLEGES

book back to the store. But it rarely happens this way; the student is luck to receive 10% of what he or she paid for the original...

College Graduate's First Day on a New Job

Susan shows me my office and instructs me in how to make arrangements for various items and services such as Internet access, and ...

Educational Issues in Two-Year Colleges with Regard to the Hospitality Industry

national organization called FairTest, a criterion-referenced test is used to measure how well a student has "learned a specific b...

THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN CLIMATE CHANGE

of greenhouse gasses, in other words, CO2 and other gasses that are emitted into the atmosphere and increase the temperature on ea...

Programs of University and Online Distance Learning

Japan were incorporating their own variations into their respective educational curriculums (Matthews, 1999). By the early twenti...

A Depression Case Study

Inventory (BDI) 27, Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) 15, and Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS 15). The student has sought out thera...

Fire Safety Issues on College Campuses

not taken and as a result small fires turn into large ones quickly. A burner left on and stored under a curtain can ignite the mat...

Psychology College Student Language Observations

interact and evolve. Such students take little convincing to become ready informants in our current quest to understand language ...

Spending Habits of 2 Female Northern Kentucky University Students

counselors across the country is that we are not taught money management or even how to weigh decision-making between options avai...

Americans with Disabilities Act Title III, 42 USC 12182 Provisions

of disability" (Shipley, 2002; p. 327). In 1975, "the Education for All [*328] Handicapped Children Act was passed by Con...

5 Primary Reasons to Choose a College

schools like Harvard or Yale. Students must consider comparisons of any college within the collective of similar schools. Studen...

Single Mother's Economic Struggles

my divorce are better understood in relation the traditional concept of a nuclear family. The term "nuclear family" brings to min...

College Education Benefits

off the job as well (U.S. Department of Education, 2003). The DOE also points out that a college education provides a grea...

Occupational Choices in the Field of Psychology

one will find that many fields are rife with opportunities for psychology majors. Many firms in fact hire anyone with a B.S. or B....

Contemporary College Campuses and Multiculturalism

values, there were also sectional differences and the differences would translate into ethnic and racial tensions which persist, t...

Going Back to College, its Benefits and Challenges

What Will It Take? An adult returning to college is certain to have a very different set of circumstances to deal with than thos...

College Campuses and Homosexuality

are given the opportunity to buy condoms at greatly reduced prices. Even so, "Only 48% of heterosexuals and 36% of gays claim to ...

Alcohol Advertisements and College Student Binge Drinking

missing classes, falling behind and ultimately losing whatever funding may have accompanied ones higher education is but one repre...

Speech Codes on Campus

Court cases have revolved around the notion of First Amendment rights pertaining to content and place, with the high court often r...

College Students and Anorexia

readily been recognized that early detection and treatment of these disorders is the best way to end the chronic and often debilit...

Sociological Perspective on College Drinking

Adolescents and young adults who choose to imbibe do so without considering the detrimental effects of such heavy consumption, ren...

Psychology Students and College Campus Linguistic Subcultures

my guide in understanding how he and his fellow students actually comprise a subculture in their use of such jargon. I, of course...