Kent State University

In this generation, many college students are stressed from a various a number of reasons. For most students, it is the first time that they are living away from home for more than a month, so they are trying to juggle all the new responsibilities at once. But they know that even when they move away, they know that back at home people have academic expectations that they have to live up to. As the student is trying to balance their academics and responsibilities, you also have to factor in…

The Growth of Student Affairs Student Affairs The significance of learning and comprehending the historic point of view of student affairs, provides one with the insight and appreciation for the field of work; as well as, illustrates how it has evolved over time. Higher educational institutions have grown into diverse populations and assorted curricular changes (Mann, 2010). In today’s institutions student affairs professionals must respond to a variety of demands and are held accountable for…

Strategy Presentation and Gallery Walk The strategy chosen was the Morning Meeting/Community Circle/Academic Language. The five principles are apply to this scheme, and it can be utilized to all grade levels to assist students in developing the language .For instance, it focus on academic language, literacy and vocabulary, for example, in lower levels this principal promotes oral skills. It can be modified to the upper levels by creating comprehensive vocabulary skills by assigning students to…

Graduating from High School Trying to decide on where to go attend College was a big choice for me, My First option was Middlesex County College at first I didn’t want to go, but after hearing positive things about it, I decided to take advantage of the opportunity in attending an orientation in learning every information I needed to know. However, the only issue that I wasn’t aware of being that I didn’t have my driving license going to another college from a different country which requires…

searches and digging through all sorts of news websites, I finally found an interesting article from The New York Times. The title was “Why Halloween at College Is So Frightening” and was written by a man named Mark Bauerlein who teaches at Emory University. The periodical starts off by explaining the scary effects that Halloween can induce on the students and administration across many of today’s college campuses. This is particularly because…

I have been using Facebook ever since I was in the eighth grade, but it hasn’t been until this year, when I joined college, that I realized just how beneficial Facebook is to me. Facebook started off as an easy communication device for me when I was in middle school. My friends and I all had simple phones that lacked any ability to send “cool” emoji’s or stickers along with messages. For this reason, Facebook became a huge hit to teenagers like myself a few years back. But as I continue to grow,…

This year I started working on campus at UNI in the Postsecondary Education and Educational Leadership office. For the first part of the semester, my job was to assist in planning the Hall of Excellence event that has been happening every year for the past 13 years at UNI. Through this task, I had the opportunity to meet Jason Lau. Jason Lau was nominated by the Hall of Excellence committee as a candidate to be an inductee for the Class of 2016. To be nominated as a candidate, an individual must…

30% of College Students drop out after their first year, but if they were to have known a few easy tips for being successful in College do you believe that number would decrease? Maintaining good grades, prioritizing your money expenses, being actively social, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle are just a few easy tips for being successful in College. So now the question is, what exactly is success? According to the online Oxford Dictionary Success is, “The accomplishment of an aim for…

The Importance of College College is a place that aims to help you learn to make the thing you love doing into your professional career. It is a place where you develop the skills you need to get the job you want. Having any type of degree from a college will increase the amount of job opportunities available to you, employers look for someone who has an education in their field. College is a place where you get to be open to new experiences, meet the people who you’ll consider ‘friends’ for…

Should college athletes get paid? According to the NCAA there are more than 460,000 student athletes playing more than 24 different types of sports across the United States. If you are a college athlete or not, we are all familiar with college sports in some type of way. What we are not all familiar with is how college sports is a multi billion dollar business. The NCAA is a member led organization that overviews anything that a college athlete. The NCAA is a billion dollar organization that…