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College Education's Socioeconomic Importance

a broader strategy - namely, the antidemocratic upward redistribution of material, cultural, and symbolic wealth" (Saltman, 2000, ...

Vocabulary Enrichment and College Students

relationship to history. In light of this enriching ones vocabulary will provide the student with a deeper understanding of the to...

Higher Education and Diversity

the only person of a certain ethnic background in a particular community, living in certain sections of town that are not diverse ...

How to Use Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)

The role of soft systems modelling is to enable there to be a system that can consider the less tangible aspects of any situation ...

Social Work Examination of Postsecondary Binge Drinking

2003). In fact, researchers have indicated that historically black colleges have about half the percentage of students participat...

Bush v. Gore and the Electoral College

the problems that cropped up during this time prompted people to re-examine the electoral college and its relevance in todays day ...

Religious Colleges, Nondenominational Universities and Sociological Theory

the individual human action. To explain social institutions and social change is to show how they arise as the result of the acti...

Drinking and the College Student

on-campus student residences. Forty-four percent of schools restrict alcohol use at several college-sponsored, on-campus events" (...

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 ...

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...

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...

Basic Skills Initiative

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Staffing in a Food Court

This 3 page paper looks at some operational issues which may be faced by a canteen on a college campus. The paper looks at matchin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....