Residential College Essay

Today I will be telling you the history and meaning of my name Calvin Emmett Alexander. I will also be informing you of the family value of my name. There are so many interesting meanings of my name. There are also so many famous people who have carried all three of my names. The most famous person came from my surname name. I think you will be as interested as I am when you hear the stories of my names.

The original college was built in 1866-1867 and was named Western Maryland College, but had its name changed in 2002 to McDaniel College ("History”). There is a long process to name a building, it involves creating a proposal and taking it to the President’s Council and Board of Trustee’s to get approved. After a building receives a name there is also a long list of ways that the buildings get grouped into groups. For example, there are Art buildings; General Use buildings and many more that are available to the students on campus. A building has to be paid for by someone or in memory of someone, there are multiple ways a building can be classified, there are buildings on campus that are named after residents who had lived in them, in memory of people, and even named after presidents. One special building that I had the pleasure of researching was Elderdice Hall, which had been named after Hugh Latimer Elderdice Sr. Elderdice Hall is special to the college because it is made out of completely different brick than any other building on campus. The building houses many essential offices that allow the campus to function, such as the Registrar’s and Bursar’s Offices, and Alumni Relations offices. Mr. Elderdice himself was an interesting man he attended Western Maryland College and later became the President of the Westminister Theological Seminary. He stayed the president until the Westminister Theological Seminary moved to Washington D.C. and became Elderdice Hall. Overall McDaniel College carries a lot of history with each and every brick that was used to build all 70 buildings on the 160-acre campus ("World Ranking

Macdonald went through different times where the normal was different and so was the extreme and you could say he was extreme in his doings and, his mistakes may even outweigh his right decisions but it is not worth the time and money to try in change the past by renaming schools. It was even stated by Sen. Murray Sinclair that “It is probably a fight, had I been asked, I would have said to avoid it.” and said by Justin Trudeau that “there are no plans by the federal government to change the name John A. Macdonald off of anything in our responsibility." because although teachers and even some historians may say “Sir John A. doesn't need a school named after him to have his cruel legacy marked. He lives on in indigenous pain.”(Jago), it is not all about the pain caused or mistakes done but also the right decisions and the history of Canada which can never be

“I am just going to Joliet Junior College”, said about half of my classmates my senior year of high school. People everywhere make community college out to be something that is looked down upon and for people who were not as bright. In his essay “Blue Collar Brilliance”, Mike rose explains the reputation community colleges have acquired over the last few decades depicts two year schools as a place for people who could not make it into “real colleges”, also known as four year colleges (276). Although four year universities have reputations for quality education and excellent programs, students can get the same quality, if not better education at a two year college at a better convenience.

All the classes were taken on the top floor of the High School. A year after the idea, the school board approved of having a Junior College. So, they placed the college on the top floor of the High school. The college only had twenty-eight students, six instructors, and five fields to study. Acording to http://www.niacc.edu/about/our-history/ All of this was under Principle James Rae. That is what the old College was

The grounds was utilized as an armed force camp, first for Union officers, then for Confederate troopers, amid the Civil War. (There were sensitivities for both sides at the college.) After the war the school went into liquidation and was changed over to a young men's preliminary secondary school for two or three years, the recaptured its legs as a state school in 1867.

The ideal purpose of a college education was not to become the greatest financial outlay for a parent or guardian. It’s basic mission was to challenge the minds of younger individuals but instead many are burdened with staggering loans from something that was meant essentially to benefit. It has become a common burden for a family to be in debt six figures behind college tuition and colleges are losing their primary purpose of challenging the mind of young individuals. The essay “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?”, helps the reader to understand how colleges have lost their soul purpose of educating by listing colleges who reinforce the idea that colleges have lost track of their basic mission. These exceptions show the reader how other colleges could possibly be able to gain their purpose again through reformation. The writer cites colleges who have not lost their priority to help reform those who have.

I do not agree with decision of Centenary College.The liberal arts is an important thing for our college students in America. Liberal arts will make you smarter and ready for the real world. Taking these classes will make you smart and will help you get a good job. If it were me making the decision, the college would still have liberal arts classes. Cutting liberal arts would be like cutting a history class. We need classes like this to help us be successful. Many people are not taking these classes any more. According to a professor, liberal arts colleges have dropped from two hundred and two in nineteen ninety to one hundred thirty-six in two thousand nine. The Wisconsin Lutheran College quite teaching political science after losing a three

American outlaw country music singer, David Allen Coe once stated, “it is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it’s the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” Many colleges and universities across the country have famous and iconic landmarks which hold years of history. Cistern Yard, the most iconic College of Charleston land mark is home to more than 200 years of history, and has been the roots of the school since its founding in 1770. While the school itself is more than 200 years old, the Cistern Yard was the grounds for new beginnings, has withstood a war, and has been the main focal point for many different movies and tv shows.

(Angelou 77). These black women had a very large part of their identity, their names, changed because of their race. They were viewed as inferior and the whites thought they could do whatever they pleased to them. You simply cannot change a name because it’s easier for you to

Last year, the long disputed Hall and Conard logos were changed after controversy regarding their insulting and culturally-insensitive nature. Students fought for the removal Native American imagery to dissociate the school names from their past visual representations. All went seemingly smooth, with one major exception: The Reservation.

“Is College Doomed?” Reading Response In “Is College Doomed?” Wood describes the new and innovative university known as Minerva. He expresses the large and distinct differences that Minerva has when compared to the ubiquitous average American university and even universities around the world.

The purpose of this research paper is to explore the altered missions of community colleges and related impacts on the historical mission of community colleges. The mission of community colleges were intended to serve all individuals with an equal opportunity for higher education access. In this research paper, there will be four guided questions:

In order to keep up with the competition and attract prospective students, colleges are building elaborate facilities. The Ivory Tower presents information on the price tag and ultimate cost of massive expansions on college campuses. For instance, Cooper Union borrowed $175 million to build an elaborate expansion with a price tag of $1,000 per square foot. Not only is this price more than that of a luxury hotel, the cost to students and the college’s mission was devastating. This scene illustrates that colleges are expanding in order to outshine their competitors and increase enrollment no matter what the cost. The massive expansions colleges are building include space for restaurants, retail stores, auditoriums, etc., to enhance the college

The brand is also strong because it identifies with a clearly defined target audience and their distinctive culture. This has continued to set the brand apart from others. No matter how controversial, the school’s brand is rooted in particular time and a place- The South in the 1800s. The institution is a marketplace for the existence of that very culture (Hakala & Lemmetyinen, 2013). It has used that culture as a conduit to