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My desire as a child to travel the world led me to my education at Pace University, first of my many destinations. The teaching methodology, the process of assigning homework, the serene atmosphere in the campus and the ever-helping faculty and staff have already instilled confidence in me. This has helped me ease out of my comfort zone to explore and innovate. Gaining my higher education in America has exposed me to a whole new set of scholastic vocabularies such as credit hours, GPA, courses, Greek life involving sororities and fraternities and

The boundaries of campus are marked by Northeastern banners on buildings along the perimeters, tall, eye-catching dorms, and diverse populations. The modern buildings labeled with red and white Northeastern signs along with thousands of students from a variety of backgrounds and countries are clear boundaries of where the Northeastern campus begins and where the surrounding neighborhoods end. Northeastern University has created a vibrant community of students that partake in research, community service and coops both at home and abroad that greatly differs from the neighboring communities at schools like Boston University, Wentworth Institute of Technology and Berklee College of Music. Northeastern is not just bordered by other institutes, it is also bordered by local communities and neighborhoods in Back Bay, Roxbury, and Fenway. These local communities may be physical borders, but they are just as engaged with the Northeastern campus as the students are. Locals reside in apartments and eat at restaurants located on campus and, likewise, Northeastern students engage in service learning and community service off

Norfolk State University, a historically black university, is rich in history and deeply rooted in the south eastern Virginia region. NSU is the only HBCU founded in the midst of the great depression. Since, NSU has grown tremendously over the last eighty years. Now, the campus spans 134 acers and has 40 buildings, four of which were newly built as of 2011. Through partnerships with neighboring universities, community organizations and business vendors, Norfolk State provides vital services to this area. It is a pristine center of education and a hub of black excellence and achievement. Needed now, more than ever, is a reflection on NSU’s political, cultural and social relevance in 2015.

In Nancy Cantor’s Civic Engagement: The University as a Public Good, she argues that universities should be culturally diverse, socially innovating, and models of a community that should be seen around the world. According to Cantor this can only happen through liberal learning, building sustained exchanges, creating exchanges across the boundaries of race and ethnicity, and creating experiments of exchange for universities to try on their campuses.

Since my visit to UM two years ago, I have imagined being a part of its culture of diversity and its campus full of amazing facilities. Through a college education there, I know I can place my studies in a bigger context that includes multicultural perspectives, global human and environmental needs, the role of technology and creativity, and service to our

However, African American students have gained so much knowledge during the years they have attended the HBCU. A lot of students have gained knowledge, not only about themselves but this world they are surrounded by. Knowledge can be defined in many aspects, but in this assignment knowledge focuses on the skills acquired by a person through experience or education. “…A significant amount of studies investigate their historical significance through the use of an objective institutional analysis…” As many new African American students that come into the college scenery their knowledge is or is not up to par with social issues. By attending classes and events students can learn the history of an HBCU and what makes it imperative to this country. Kennedy (2012) stated that attending an HBCU would give her the opportunity to mature as an African American women in a supportive cultural environment. On many HBCU campuses they are filled with the most enriched and pure history of how they came about. (Digital quote) Not only is an HBCU able to push their students academically, but it exposes students to their history. Most students find themselves interested in Black Archives learning not only what the HBCU has done for students but learning about other African Americans traditions and

In the summer of 2017, I had visited Wilkes-Barre, Arcadia University, Temple University. Wilkes-Barre and Temple had the urban atmosphere that I craved for college. Living in York, where there is farm down the street from my house, I needed to experience fast pace, never sleeping aspect of the city. With this in mind, it disappointed me how much neither Temple nor Wilkes awed me. I could see myself going there, but I could also see myself not. Another impediment was that it is only one hour away from my parents.

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

Topic Description: For over 200 hundred years, Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs have played a very important role role in the education of African-Americans. These schools have provided most of the black college graduates. Many people believe that these colleges should be shut down because we live in a very diverse nation and these schools represent racism. These schools have attracted and motivated many young black people, to get a higher education. By seeing people just like them, with similar upbringings and similar interest making great achievements, it provides those young black people with a great opportunity to further

Girls perch on the tables like exotic birds gossiping and giggling, a football fly’s above their heads between two jocks in varsity jackets parading their toned muscles. Groups of high schoolers sit around the room laughing. Weekend has arrived and the hallways of the school were filled with tons of kids ready to go home. Every ear filled with the sound of multiple conversations going off at once, lockers opening and closing, music blasting without. I had managed to push past the constant stream of children and to the school field. The grass was damp and covered in a thin layer of frost. As I walked my footprints were embedded, leaving a piece of me in the cold ground. I saw my friends faraway chattering and fooling around. I was stuck in the wrong crowd; they are nothing like me but somehow I am still friends with them. I slowly made my way up to my “so called friends”.

It was a bright sunny summer day in June. My percussion instruction at the local university was year round. I was driving with my mom heading to Wichita State University. The plan next week was finally to get my full driver’s license, so this was one of our last trips together for a while. She tended to enjoy the back neighborhood route, to Wichita State University, which lead us to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The route we took each week lead us through the beautiful historical neighborhoods in Wichita Kansas. This established residential area has streets lined with beautiful, enormous, well-kept homes for the most part. It was clear that the wealth of Wichita chose to live in the shadows of the university. As we were about to

In today 's world where the population, especially of the United States, is growing gloriously diverse, institutions of higher education must also reflect this aspect in their student body. The purpose of colleges and universities is to provide students with the education and experience they need to succeed after graduating as well as expand their thoughts and perspectives. Thus, they must create and maintain a similar environment in which students will live and work in the future. Although diversity has been emphasized as a priority for many schools, socioeconomic diversity is often disregarded. However, socioeconomic diversity plays an important role in developing the perspectives and minds of students. Thus, it is essential for the admission offices, especially of prestigious universities like the University of Pennsylvania, to recruit and admit more economically disadvantaged students as well as for the schools to meet the needs of and maintain those students.

As I walked toward the campus of Jackson State Community College, I could hear booming music playing, that seem like it was coming from the bookstore. I realized that the campus was a lot fuller than normal. As I got closer to the buildings of Jackson State, The walkways were filled with bolting people, and I kept getting bumped from shoulder to shoulder. As I peeled myself from the torturous crowd, I finally reached the common area. To my surprise, I found much more than a rowdy crowd.

America’s higher education system has an interesting history. It has advanced substantially since it was established. Unfortunately, its beginnings were based on slavery and cultural genocide. Craig Steven Wilder’s book Ebony and Ivy gives insight into the intriguing beginning of America’s colleges. Wilder focuses mostly on the impact and treatment of both the Native Americans and African Americans within the beginnings of colonial universities, but within these statements, one can see how dramatically the American college system developed in these early years. The book has excellent reviews. In an article posted on December 1, 2014 the African American Review states, “Ebony and Ivy will change the way we think about knowledge-creation at America’s universities…Craig Wilder’s masterly work will stand the test of time and should be required reading for college students across America.” In a Washington Post article published in 2014, Carson Byrd says, “Ebony & Ivy is a meticulously argued work and a valuable resource for multiple disciplines. It strongly connects slavery, science, and higher education to explain how racism is built into the foundation of our colleges and universities. A few of these connections are described below.”

My bike carried me through the gate that resembled the scenes of 1920s China. The smog was gradually replaced by the fume of nameless flowers scattering up the trees, on the ground, or in the pond. The roaring noise at school or on the road seemed anachronistic. What comes in to my ears were the melody of birds, dancing of water near the fountain, and the whizzing of my bike. The trails were mostly covered by foliage, themselves covered by immense shades between transparent greenness and checkered-board twilight. It’s a zen of academics, a hermitage for disturbed minds.