Problems Associated With Quality Education

Evaluating: This essay has good detail, such as comparing and contrasting the first-generation student to college. Where do they face the biggest challenge of their lives and solving the problem with a help of older peers, teachers and guiding

There are many challenges that first generation students face in pursuit of a college degree:

My passion towards working with students every day has led me to the decision of pursuing a doctoral degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education at Miami University. I have chosen this program to prepare myself for a future role as a professor or a senior level college administrator. This program will allow me to become more proficient within the students’ educational experience and therefore better engage students in active learning.

Being admitted into college is a difficult process, one that requires students to be diligent in their studies, engage in a number of extracurricular activities, and overcome the everyday pressures and challenges that high-schoolers face across the country. Admittedly, not everyone in the United States is born with the same opportunities as socioeconomic factors as well as historic injustices have contributed to a society in which some people are far more likely to achieve upward mobility – of which, obtaining a college degree is a necessary part – than others. While there is need to rectify this reality,

Two professors of different backgrounds, Mike Rose of California, and Gerald Graff, of Illinois, discuss the problems college students face today in America. Though similar in slight variations, both professors view the problem in different regards and prepare solutions that solve what they feel to be the heart of this academic problem.

College is an exciting time with plenty of challenges and difficulties. The ones who can overcome these challenges and difficulties will be the ones who get the most out of college and their degree. In my paper I will talk about what a degree means to me personally and professionally. I will also talk about different things I struggle with so far in college and different ways I can improve these difficulties, as well as how I feel about the CSI report that we took and how I believe it compares to me personally.

This paper is separated into two parts that are connected. The first part will cover my beliefs about higher education focusing on my Student Affairs philosophy while integrating theories and work from current or previous successful Student Affairs professionals. The second part will also discuss my beliefs, foundation of my faith, my strengths, my challenges, my beliefs, my values, and my goals.

Barbara Millis of the United States Air Force Academy reviewed Richard Light’s Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds. She explained that in recent years, many copies of “Harvard Assessment Seminars I and II” had been issued to professors to develop college student’s education further. As well as these books, Light’s book had also been used to broaden the system. Millis further stated that Light’s book involved lengthy interviews that apprehended student’s college lifestyles. The evidence among the interviews were used to collect various data.

Having the opportunity to interview Mary Kate, Doug Davis, and students in the class have helped me become more comfortable with interviewing while also teaching me what successfully works during an interview and what doesn’t. One thing that I have learned that works for me while interviewing would be asking questions about personal experiences

The first person I interviewed was my cousin Chloe. I was very shocked at what I found with her answers. I have always thought she was somewhat immature, but her answers said otherwise. One question I asked her was what the biggest accomplishment she has had was. Her answer, “getting straight A’s through all of elementary school and most of middle

As Nelson Mandela once said,” Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So, it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.” In my interpretation, the challenges of Education rely on the motivation of the students to move forward. In today’s society, many students, including myself, suffer from the inability to focus on education, as we struggle to get through a course, instead of struggling for success. Now, this effect of procrastination does not always stem from the teacher or the course’s teaching-- although in some cases it does-- it roots from the students’ fear of prioritizing education over themselves and trying their absolute best. One major resolution of this innate conflict can be dug out through competition’s role in education; however, not all goals of education with competition.

But Tennyson high students, in general, struggle to have a college going atmosphere. The majority of our students, like Ruby, will be first generation college students. Ruby has peers to compete with but not as many as other schools would have. When talking to her I find that she doesn’t even realize her disadvantages. She continues to expect high results from herself in AP courses, rather than being satisfied with being enrolled in these courses. Her brother is her view to higher education and an example to follow, but she is paving her own way to college. Ruby is expanding her family’s view of college and what can achieved as college students. Ruby is becoming for her family and our school the example to follow.

required to learn from the time we enter school and many times beyond the time

The interviews that were successful knew what they were talking about and were not afraid to talk about their project. The students that did well you could tell they really did their project or spent a lot of time at their work. They

Institutions of higher education pride themselves in their ability to educate, serve, and meet the needs of the students in which it serves. This analysis shows collaboration on college/university campuses to foster success among first year students. With higher education today being in a state of dynamic change, it becomes crucial that faculty members recognize that their long time traditional roles have become somewhat non-existent. That is to say that there must be a relinquishing of past ideas and procedures.