Iowa State University

thing that would come out of their mouth is the word “expensive”. But why is college so expensive exactly? Is it the actual college education itself or is it the housing that is causing students to have endless amounts of debt? Students come out of universities with a piece of paper that says that they passed college and a bank account that tells them that they spent too much time in college. The answer is simple, housing is what causes students to graduate college with outrageous amounts of…

profits? Does this mean that big time universities are exploiting their college athletes so that they can cash in on their talents? Many people are not aware that most athletic departments actually lose money year after year trying to fund programs. Out of the 120 FBS (formerly named Division 1) schools, only twelve broke even or made a profit last year. The money they would be using would be coming out of the university’s…

Quarters Housing To gain perspective of the student life at The Quarters, we interviewed four current tenants, with two attending Kirkwood, and two attending the University of Iowa. The ten questions asked ranged from accessibility to campus, transportation, amenities, cost balancing, and knowledge over the controversy. In their answers, there are some notable commonalities as well as a few differences. When asked how important housing was in regards to the closeness of campus, three students…

As the economy today is continuously growing, there is a national increasing need of individuals in the working industry who have education beyond high school. In particular, the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce has estimated that by 2025, there will be at least 68% of jobs in Iowa will require individuals with postsecondary education. In order to ensure every individual has the equal opportunity to pursue postsecondary education, President Obama has proposed the…

Funny, “The state, Flanagan suspect, reflects the broader “infantilization” of college students, who must be kept happy and entertained lest they wander off, taking their tuition money with them. She names comedian after comedian forced to sanitize acts or risk being shut out of a lucrative market. One comic Flanagan discusses brings the house down, only to be rejected by most schools when his routine crosses too many racial boundaries. “We’re a very forward-thinking school,” an Iowa student…

graduation rate was 57 percent for males and 62 percent for females. 2. Support material: On the other hand, only 33 percent actually graduated in 4-years and received their bachelor 's degree. B. Here in Cal State University San Bernardino our overall graduation rate was 52 percent in 2009 and 2 percent for our transfer-out rate. Based on the office of institutional research I’ve found statistics that students pursuing a Bachelor 's degree only 9 percent…

uses several strategies to appeal to her reader’s emotions. The first strategy Whelan uses is putting the words of a student in her argument. This strategy involves the words of a first-year student describing his motivation. To illustrate, Whelan states, “Dennis, a first-year student in one of my sociology classes, wrote in a paper: ‘Motivation for me used to be found in others, never in myself. I always needed to be yelled at or pushed to do something’” (258). This quote is appealing the…

In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson argues the “farm crisis” and the pain it brought to communities in Iowa was only part of a longer decline of rural America brought about by failed governmental policy and the rise of industrial agriculture, which is turning once prosperous small towns into what he terms as “rural ghettos.” He argues that without a substantial course correction rural America will continue to decline and the residents of these rural ghettos, “bitter, desperate, and cut off…

Umpqua Community College, Santa Monica College, Oikos University, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Northern Illinois University, Virginia Tech, University of Arizona’s College of Nursing, Uni­versity of Iowa, colleges since 1984 that were grounds for mass shootings. Harper Mercer, John Zawahri, L. Goh, Amy Bishop, Steven Kazmierczak, Robert S. Flores, Gang Lu, students and faculty that opened fire at those colleges. Mass shootings on college campuses are not fictional events, they are…

Questions: • Before the Spring Semester, where you aware that the university had an equestrian team? o Question…