College Parking Spaces

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One challenge that is faced on a daily base for a college student is being able to find a parking spot. The majority of the student body drives to school with no guaranty that they will be able to station their car in the school zone even if they have a parking pass. Although there’s always a way of avoiding this problem by means of other transportations, however, students would prefer driving to school and for that reason a solution to the lack of parking spaces in the college campus is to assign each parking space with a number. Many colleges lack parking spaces inside campus, and it is a problem for not only students who are trying to get to class on time, but also for neighbors who live in the area near the college. One may say that there …show more content…

They raise money by selling parking passes and save money by not expanding the land to build more parking spaces, if it is that case than a way to please both students and the College Board is to eliminate the free parking in the afternoons and organize a distribution of parking spaces. Each parking space needs to be assigned a number as well as the student, that would be their reserved parking space, no matter what, though that parking spot will not only belong to one student, the student will have to share the space according to their schedule. The schedule has fit accordingly, for example, if a student has only morning classes, then the one to second that parking spot will be an afternoon person. It’s a win, win situation because the student has paid for parking and has a guaranteed spot the college won’t half to have free parking and increase their budget. A similar solution was brought up at the University of Georgia. According to Ann McClure “Prioritize parking permit distribution. In 2002, the University of Georgia instituted a formula to assign parking permits based on the requester's role on campus and longevity. "We would give parking permits to anyone and you just had to find a spot." Now faculty might share a lot with senior staff, or even students, leading to better lot utilization (McClure).” This has been proven to be one of the ultimate efficient ways being that campuses across the country are managing …show more content…

Teachers will not be interrupted in the middle of lecture for the most common reason, which the student couldn’t find parking, and students wouldn’t have to miss part of their lecture and fail the course for being late all the time, and if this being than the college would have more graduates by the end of each 2 years, sounds odd, but when thought about, if a student is constantly late for class most teachers take down points which affects the students grades, A lot goes on at the start of class and if a student misses that, then it also affects the grade. Anything that affects a grade can hold a student back a for year or may have them repeat the course, now this isn’t the main cause of students failing classes but tardiness is one of the causes that is preventable. According to Spencer Havlick and Will Toor in some colleges attendance is crucial, “Students must be in attendance at least eighty (80%) percent of the clock hours of a course to receive credit for the course. Those who do not meet minimum attendance requirements will be given the grade of “F”, which will be computed in the students’ grade point average as a failing grade (Havlick and Toor).” Being late to class one time is no big deal and not noticeable, but when it is constant than it becomes

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