Columbia's Intellectual Analysis

In addition, over the course of my first semester at Columbia I have experienced many new things, many new people, and many new ways of seeing the world. The class culture, race and media has helped me a lot to see the world differently and identify that the media is all around me, all the time. I have learned that everyone is true to their own opinion but not to point fingers when things don't go your way. When I started

Unfortunately, notwithstanding poet Louisa Fletcher's desire to start over, colleges and universities in the United States will not at any time soon access the Land of Beginning Again. Those institutions must enact meaningful change transitions from where they exist today, and there is much change that is needed. To wit, innovator and strategic management consultant Fred Buining asserts that higher education is in the "eye of the hurricane," which means that leaders, scholars, and educators are not doing enough to meet the challenges they face. Buining suggests that there is "no critical mass" in terms of the changes that are needed in higher education. Moreover, he believes that while today's student in colleges and universities are getting younger the professors and instructors are getting older, issues like cultural diversity and commercialization threaten institutions of higher learning. This paper reviews and critiques scholarly sources that address issues of diversity and commercialization on college and university campuses. Thesis: colleges and universities are in many respects becoming very much like corporations, and this is truly the wrong direction for higher education

Since the 8th grade, I’ve known I wanted to be a student at Howard University. Howard University has cleared every major specification that I so very looked for in school in a way no other school could ever. From the moment I stepped on campus the beginning of my junior year, I knew this was the place that I would be able to thrive and inherently become a better “Me”. Howard exudes a certain liveliness that attracts me… Whether it’s the prestige and notably, the mass opportunities presented to all of its students, or the noticeable ambition that exude off each student; I Matthew Smith want to be part of it.

Coe College’s students each identity into their own various categories and subgroups of one another. These groups can be labeled by the individual's’ race, heritage, location, or more specific groups such as what sports the individual plays, what clubs, or what they value the most. Every person on Coe College’s campus is unique in their own way and if a narrow mind is looked upon an individual, it may seem that there is no common group between anyone. It is not until we extend past the differences to find commonalities that we can look upon to find common ground while still respecting the differences that make any person different from the other. As a member of Coe College’s most diverse class, it is essential to be more united than divided

I stand under the Washington Square Park arch onlooking the fountain as I watch my mother lean backward in attempts to fit both me and the arch in a photo. It was a chilly spring day, one of those where the sun was out but you still needed a light jacket to keep warm. Cars zoomed by. Groups of students Looking around, this untraditional campus was my first impression of what college is like. I imagined how the park would look in the fall with the leaves each a different shade of red and yellow; revealing their last burst of beauty before falling on the ground to make a satisfying crunch underneath my feet. It has been 5 years since my first visit but the treasures of NYU remain timeless.

Harvard University is the pinnacle of social and academic success. Just the name, Harvard, brings to mind twenty year-old future business leaders and politicians gathering around in the library to discuss stock options and boating knots while they finish up their assignments for macro-economic courses. Exciting for some, but for most, as dull as it gets. Yet, after visiting the campus, I have come away with a very different perspective of Harvard. There’s a lot of strange and interesting stuff there—the famous Widener Library, named after a victim of the Titanic disaster, the comically ridiculous Lampoon Building, and a book bound in human flesh in the rare books library just to name a few. It makes sense that a university older than the United States –Harvard was established in 1636—to house a few oddities. Perhaps the most interesting one resides in a glass display case within Harvard’s Medical School Library, the skull of Phineas Gage.

As a child raised in a foreign country, arriving to the US eight years ago, I frantically searched for something familiar. The familiarity that I looked for wasn’t what I found. It was individuals of different ethnicities, skin tones, religions, and ideologies that i found me. The trinkets they gave me – random words and phrases in their languages forgotten and retaught, insights into their worlds and cultures, and tasty delicacies- allowed me a new perspective, an open mind, and much clearer lens to peak through. The student body of NYU is undeniably one of the most diverse. While on a visit, walking between so many different individuals felt like traveling the world in the span of a few minutes. With such versatility of people and knowledge,

It might be difficult to persuade you that my affinity for New York University grew out of a teenage love affair, especially one that wasn’t even my own and furthermore, one that began ten years before I was even born, but that’s exactly how fate planted this seed as the relationship of young Tywanna and Dwayne Williams blossomed from their frequent dates at the Waverly Place diner; commencing my path to the school. Tywanna and Dwayne eventually fell in love, got married, had three children and raised a family whose morals and values were built upon individuality, passion, and diligence. Their goal was always to provide us with opportunities and expose us to as much as we could, even if it meant a short ride over the Williamsburg bridge to

Harthwarth highlights the important roles that women’s colleges played in the United States since 1820 to the present. It reviews the beginning of women’s colleges, the challenges that they did throughout the years for example how women’s colleges became coeducational colleges (pg. 1). Women have suffered a large amount of discrimination or negation in attending school and pursuing a higher level of education. Fortunately, throughout the time, women are gaining more and more opportunities and spaces to develop themselves in different fields where in the past only men were accepted for example in the science, politics, and math fields. Into this article are some arguments that I do not agree with. For example, when it says that women are not

The autumn of 1969 brought with it nearly 700 female students to Yale College as first-years and as transfers when the College voted to go coeducational. With this admission, female students catalysed the reformation of the archaic cultural, intellectual, and political mechanisms of Yale College, helping push the school closer to the Yale we know today. Through activism and feminist movements, and intellectual and social presence, the new students affected the streets, the classrooms, and the social scenes. This social revision and political revolution changed the university, but how did it change its soundscape?

Money, the first word popping into some people’s minds when depicting Wall Street, is merely one aspect of “the Street”. As the beating heart of global capitalism, Wall Street has an enormous impact on college cultures. It is ubiquitous on campus, holding recruitment fairs and offering college students job opportunities. Flooded with emails, which inform college students of the upcoming career fairs and invite them to attend recruitment presentations, students are aspiring to work on Wall Streets. In “Biographies of Hegemony”, Karen Ho explores the close tie between some of America’s most powerful and prestigious universities and Wall Street firms. (Thesis)

When I first researched my options after high school, the possibility of attending a Liberal Arts College was far from my mind. However, the flipped classes and the ability to connect with classmates at Colorado College appealed to the way I learn. As someone who loves constructive discourse, the open environment I experienced on the College’s campus, coupled with the dedication to exploration, enticed me to apply. Features such as the unaffiliated chapel helped me realize that Colorado College pushed conventional thought and mirrored aspects of the high school experience I gained from the IB program. What made Colorado College one of my top options was my tour guide's description of how students aren’t at the school to compete with each other,

Mid-America Christian University has become my home in the four short months I have been here. It was a scary and tough decision for me to attend MACU but I wouldn’t want it any other way. Critical thought and popular culture was a required course to take and to be honest, I thought it was going to be a super boring class. But, it taught me a lot about myself and made me examine my calling in life a little deeper than before. In turn, I thoroughly enjoyed this course.

Outside of the classroom, my passion for writing and history burned brightly. I joined the Caribbean African Student Assemblage (CASA) and the Latin American Student Organization (LASO) eager to delve into the cultural aspects of the places I was studying. As treasurer of CASA, I did more than balance the club budget. I developed an education program that brought together the college community in discussing narratives of African and Caribbean history and culture. I also found outlets for my writing on these issues in my school’s papers The Crusader and The Fenwick Review. As an editor for both, I wanted to connect my campus to world events. I covered everything from student massacres in Mexico, to how racism affects Oscar-voting and school

Throughout my entire life, I have always had a slight feeling that I am extremely out of place. Upon discovering and visiting the University of Chicago, the feeling of displacement has decreased immensely; the moment I arrived in Chicago, everything just seemed to experience a profound shift. When I am in Chicago, my eyes shine as bright as the city lights and my heart races with euphoria like the bustling traffic in the streets, for I just want to explore every inch of the Windy City. No matter how hard I try, I am never able to drink everything in with my eyes,—the architecture, the businesses, the people—so furthering my education in Chicago will allow me to take the big gulp I have been waiting for and broaden my horizons.