...“The Case Against College” “He did not go to study philosophy. Nor did he feel it incumbent to go to class or complete courses,”(1) states Linda Lee in her “The Case Against College.” Lee describes her thought process about sending her son to college. Why would you send your son or daughter to college if they were not fully willing? After all, you are the one who will pay whether they are sitting in the 8 AM lab, half asleep or not. “America is obsessed with college.”(1) All kids are smart to an extent, but anything past a high school diploma is not absolutely not for some. Why take a boy or girl who wants to start their life early by getting a job, and turn them into boy or girl who either have a lot of debt or their parents have a lot...
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...Huu Pham Student ID: 196479 Course: Human Resources Management – MBA 6451 Instructor: Dr. Ed Sherbert NETWORKING AFTER COLLEGE by Tony Lee Summary The article Networking after College by Tony Lee describes the job hunting after college. Lee argues that it is difficult to find a job if a person does not know any contact because the employer simply just ignores the applicant, certain with a polite manner. Lee provides data for his argument, “a survey of more than 1500 successful job hunters shows that 63% found new positions by tapping their networks of friends, family members, acquaintances and anyone else who would help. In comparison, only 11% found jobs by answering ads, and just 2% by sending unsolicited resumes to company recruiters, reports a New York-based career consulting firm” (Lee, p.10, 2013). When one knows that he needs to have connection in order to find a job, Lee recommends a way to start networking. There are 3 groups of people who can help one introduce a job or a contact: 1. Brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other helpful relatives; college friends and past professors; 2. Former bosses and co-workers; 3. Neighbors and family acquaintances. Among these people, one should choose the most potential ones to ask for a job or a contact. Lee also provides some instructions for talking to the contacts. According to Lee (p.11, 2013), “you need to be relentless in using your network contacts, but don’t be defensive if they don’t return your calls...
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...You get what you give “ College isn’t everything. In my opinion your work ethic is what your success will be based off. In the essay “The Case Against College” I believe proves the point of showing college isn’t everything. If you give 20% you can expect to only get about 20% back out, but if you put in everything you have you will end up having a lot better results. Determination and the amount of effort will decide how far you go in life. I believe Linda Lee has a very good understanding of how college affects your future, based on the amount of effort you put into it. In the author’s essay she stated that she asked herself if her son was receiving $1,000 worth of education, where she decided that “heck no” he wasn’t. I believe that...
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...The insight that sparks innovation appears to occur randomly. After all, the iconic shorthand for innovation is a light bulb, implying that ideas come from sudden flashes of inspiration. While such flashes are surely good things, it is hard to depend on them, particularly if you are at a company that needs to introduce a steady stream of innovative ideas. Steve Jobs once said, “It is not the customer’s job to know what they want.” That’s absolutely right. It is yours. And don’t think you don’t have a customer because you work in an internal support function or for a company that provides components or services. Everyone has a customer, whether it is a purchaser, user, or co-worker. "More than 50 years ago Peter Drucker wrote, 'The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it sells him.'" The quest to identify opportunities for innovation starts with pinpointing problems customers can’t adequately solve today. More than 50 years ago Peter Drucker wrote, “The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it sells him. One reason for this is, of course, that nobody pays for a ‘product.’ What is paid for is satisfaction.” Companies think they are selling products and services, but in reality people hire those products and services to get jobs done in their lives. As marketing guru Ted Levitt quipped to his students a generation ago, “People don’t want quarter-inch drills--they want quarter-inch holes.” A problem arises, and the customer looks around and chooses the solution...
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...Eddie Liu committed the theft to satisfy his selfish needs, but in the process, all parties concerned had to bear the consequences. First, Lee and Li’s reputation was seriously affected in Taiwan and abroad. The firm’s core principles of excellence in quality and client service were jeopardized since Liu used Sandisk’s shares to perpetuate the fraud. Prospective clients might find it difficult to trust the firm and would prefer taking their business elsewhere. Besides losing important clients, Lee and Li would have to make extra effort to restore its tarnished image. Second, apart from the fact that Lee and Li had no insurance to cover the embezzlement, partners in Taiwan shared unlimited liability. Therefore, lawyers like Paul Hsu, C.V Chen and Kwan-Tao Li were more vulnerable in this situation: they faced the possibility of loosing all of their possessions and professional livelihood. Third, Lee and Li could face bankruptcy and might be forced to close down. Consequently, lawyers and staff working at the firm would lose their jobs and would not be able to provide for their families until they found another job. After being informed about the embezzlement, Lee and Li should take corrective decisions and act quickly to ensure that the firm survives. Since news of the fraud hadn’t made the headlines yet, senior partners should first try to handle the situation internally. In this scenario, it is crucial that they are surrounded by highly-trusted people to help bring the...
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...the intention of better preparing them for college courses (Scott, Tolson, and Lee 2010). When the Advanced Placement program was put into motion in the 1950s, its intent was to offer exit-year high-school students the opportunity to take courses that mimicked college courses in order to give them a taste of what awaited them at college (Casement 2003). Fast-forward to modern times, and any given AP course could very-well have a freshman on the roster (Casement 2003). It has been said over and over again that AP courses tremendously help high-school students with their transition into college. The problem with this statement is that it has become ambiguous; in what ways are students benefiting from having taken AP courses? To say that AP courses are, arguably, more popular than ever (Casement 2003). Such prosperity is no...
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...Report: Expansion of Higher Education Introduction Due to the influence of globalization and reforms in higher education conducted in Hong Kong since the 1997s, there have been more and more higher education institutions established in Hong Kong in recent years(Lee.2014,p.15) However, some inevitable concerns are raised about the quality of some private institutions which require expensive tuitions.( Hornsby and Osman,2014) Besides, it is uncertain that whether the massification in higher education can contribute to social upward mobility or not(Mok,2015).This report will outline the trend and concerns about expansion of higher education in Hong Kong. In addition, this paper will recommend some solutions that can be done to improve the current situation in the end. 1. The trend of expansion of Higher Education in Hong Kong Higher education sector has experienced unprecedented expansion in the past more than 20 years, which contributes to the significant increase in the enrollment of higher education institutions in Hong Kong. According to an official report written by University Grants Committee (2014, as cited in Lee, 2015), only about 2579 students were admitted to higher education institutions (HEI) (which was just 2.2% among the relevant age group) in 1980. However, 17058 students, 21.3% of relevant age group, went to higher education sector in 2013. The figures mentioned above show the obvious trend of the expansion of HIE in Hong Kong. Nowadays, due to the still...
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...Columbia University Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. Columbia University, is an American private Ivy League research university. The name of the current president of the university is Lee C. Bollinger. The academic stuffs of the university are currently 3,763. 29,250 students are enrolled at present, off them 8,365 are undergraduates and 18,568are post graduates. It has a campus of total 299 acres in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. In April 2007, the university purchased more than two-thirds of a 17 acres (6.9 ha) site for a new campus in Manhattanville, an industrial neighborhood to the north of the Morningside Heights campus. Stretching from 125th Street to 133rd Street, the new campus will house buildings for Columbia's Business School, School of International and Public Affairs, and the Jerome L. Greene Center for Mind, Brain, and Behavior, where research will occur on neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. In 2006, the university established the Office of Environmental Stewardship to initiate, coordinate and implement programs to reduce the university's environmental footprint. The U.S. Green Building Council selected the university's Manhattanville plan for the Leadership in Energy and...
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...Introduction In 2009, former President Barack Obama proclaimed that “America cannot lead in the 21st century unless we have the best educated, most competitive workforce in the world”. To many in today's society including Barack Obama, a promising future results from an education at an elite postsecondary school. Others, such as Jeffrey Hart, Professor Emeritus of English at Dartmouth College states elite colleges are deceitful and not focused on giving students a proper education. According to Elizabeth M. Lee, professor, and author at Hamilton college, elite institutions are, “Private, selective, or highly selective colleges and universities that have high costs of attendance and typically lengthy histories serving predominantly upper...
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...TOPIC: Factors that affects High school students in choosing their courses in college. INTRODUCTION A labour force survey suggested that the Philippines has the highest unemployment rate among the countries from the Southeast Asia (Ericta, 2013). Mismatch graduates are believed to be a reason why the country has high unemployment rate. The reasons of these mismatches might be due to the produced graduates of colleges that do not fit the present demand of the economy, or the graduates were not capable of achieving the required skills the industry needs. The incompatibility of graduates to meet the competencies needed by companies may be due to wrong preference of courses (Rosero, 2012). A major turning point in an adolescents' lives involves the career choice that they make while in high school. These decision are mostly influenced by the family and community of a student which plays a major role in establishing a career path that opens as well as closes opportunities (Bluestein, Phillips, Jobin-Davis, Finkelberg, & Roarke, 1997). There a lot of factors that could affect a student's decision in choosing their courses. There are uncontrollable elements such as location, cost, distance and availability of financial aid (Jackson, 1982). However, some Colleges, set standards before accepting students to a particular course; hence, this can alter student’s decision especially those with academic issues. These standards include student background (Jackson, 1982), objectives...
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...Some minority groups (Hispanics, Native American, First Nations people and African American students) are more likely to drop out than their white and Asian peers. Some students who live in impoverish conditions and in single family homes simply drop out because they feel the necessity to contribute to their families’ finances. An additional factor to add is peer involvement and pressure. There was a time when it was strictly inner city students who dropped out to do drugs and commit crimes. Now drugs are everywhere and have already invaded schools. Those same students are turning to crime and gangs as way to get the things needed to survive. In some communities finishing high school and even going to college are farfetched, there’s more pressing matters to deal with like being in the wrong place at the wrong...
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...As a student transitioning from high school to a freshman in college there are a lot of things changing. Students in high school get used to teachers being lenient with due dates, and how they grade assignments. In college there is no lee way; students have no option but to do their assignments correctly and on time, or they will not succeed. Therefore, as an incoming college student it is extremely important to learn new strategies in order to be successful; the two strategies this essay is going to focus are accepting self-responsibility, and understanding what grades do and do not mean about a student. Many students may think they have a good understanding of what it means to accept self-responsibility, but in order to be successful students have to do more than understand the concept they have to put the concept into action. In “Self-Assessment Survey”, Skip Downing explains accepting self-responsibility as realizing that your outcomes are based on the effort you put in. Downing uses an example to say that students struggling with accepting responsibility...
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...Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Harper Lee grew up in the small southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville. Her father,was a lawyer who also served on the state legislature. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader. In 1944, at the age of 18, Harper Lee enrolled in Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. From 1945 to 1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. She transferred to Oxford University in England as an exchange student for a year, but six months before completing her studies, Lee decided to move to New York and worked as a reservation clerk for Eastern Airlines until the late 1950s, when she decided to devote herself to writing. Lee published her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, in 1960 after a two year period of revising and rewriting under the guidance of her editor, Tay Hohoff, of the J. B. Lippincott Company. To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize despite mixed critical reviews. The novel was highly popular, selling more than fifteen million copies. The book was even made into a successful movie in 1962. She wrote a few magazine articles after To Kill A Mockingbird was published, but never another novel. President Johnson named Lee to the National Council of Arts in June 1966, and since then she has received numerous honorary doctorates. Now in her 80s, Lee lives with her sister, Louise and prefers a more private life declining all publicity , interview requests...
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...different background to return to school to important his or her education. Online education can reach the young and old students, low-income students, working students, and single mother. The online education is allowing student who has a computer or access to a computer to attend class. Some student will have every reason not to return to school. With adult education, the online college just has to prove to the student who he or she could go back school and do his or her daily schedule without a problem. Some adult student believes being in the classroom with younger student will be a headache for him or her who is why he or she does not attend on-ground college. With the online classes, the classes have young and older student who are working toward a different lifestyle or forward his or her education. With the online classes age does not matter to the students in the class. The online educations reach out to the low-income students to forward his or her education into a better life. The communities have many students afraid to attend college because he or she does not have the money to attend college. Money has become less of a problem because there are several scholarships for low-income student wanting to attend school. Student with a job will like to return to school to forward his or her education for a job or personal reasons. The students usually work all day and do not have the time to go and sit in a classroom. If the student has a family to take care sitting in a classroom...
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...In Favor of Affirmative Action For a majority of its history, the US has discriminated certain groups of people from higher education. Colleges and universities should consider race as a factor in admissions process. It benefits all students as well as minorities that receive affirmative action. It also develops stronger leaders that are needed for our ever-changing society. Merit based admission as a counter argument to affirmative action is flawed because it doesn’t compensate for the failures in our public education system that result in failing schools. Diversity in higher education is an advantage to all students. With new perspectives and ideas, the debates and discussions in the classrooms and on campus will be less biased and more interesting. A multicultural campus will encourage more positive interactions and discourage uneasy race relations, like the Compton Cookout. This stereotypical event that occurred off campus at UCSD to mock black history month was exactly what affirmative action could help avoid. Since the UC system banned admission by affirmative action, UCSD only had 2.2% black students in the freshman class, which was the lowest of any of the 10 campuses in the University of California School system. Nowadays, many students live very segregated lives until they start college, so they have false assumptions and stereotypes towards certain races. Ninety-two percent of the University of Michigan’s white students and 52 percent of its African American students...
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