Students' unions Essays

  • Cultural Pluralism on the Black Student Union

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    Bowling Green is the hateful tweets toward the black student union. However bad the severity of the offense it is still important to analyze the event and how it relates to cultural pluralism as a class. No matter how much people try to stop discrimination of other peoples it will still always be there. A couple of weeks ago in Bowling Green an example of this behavior showed us that it is currently still a very real problem. The incident was that students that attended Bowling Green State University sent

  • Student Organizations: Legal Rights & Responsibilities

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    According to Kaplin and Lee (2006), collegiate student organizations give students an opportunity to obtain and develop leadership skills and to pursue assorted non-academic interests. It also supplements their formal education with secondary academic programming (Kaplin & Lee, 2006). Because of these reasons, students often are encouraged to join a student organization. In addition to joining such a group and because of the First Amendment, students have a right to organize and join these groups

  • The College Rioting Problem

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    The College Rioting Problem It’s a frigid January night, and the home team just won the big game so hundreds of college students pour out into the streets. The celebration begins with cheers and hugs, but quickly the tone begins to change. The drunken crowd continues to grow, blocking the streets with thousands of students and young adults. Fires are started, women bare their breasts, cars are flipped, and property destroyed as the celebration becomes a destructive riot. This recent phenomenon

  • University School Rankings

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    Introduction I sought out to answer a rather intangible, philosophical question, which somehow is almost central to what makes this university successful. In fact, its success is the question! I wanted to understand what it is about UNC that makes it a “good,” and prestigious, school. Toward that end, I needed to investigate the intricacies of this institution, and of this question. Because the terms “good” and “prestigious” are highly subjective, I did not attempt to objectify them, but I instead

  • Most Significant Research Experiences

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    Many students from different nation-wide schools were present at this experience. The American University of Nigeria was also in attendance. At AASLE, I was awarded the Dr. Carroll F.S. Hardy Leadership Award. This award recognizes the accomplishments of an undergraduate student who has demonstrated transformative leadership, academic excellence, community service and a commitment to continuing

  • Case Study: Iowa State University Memorial Union

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    Assignment #3 Memorial Union A Way for a University to be victorious, like Iowa State University, is to set several well planned goals that not only support it’s students but also there staff and alumni. Like the Strategic Plan here on campus is to “provide a high quality student life that engages students to learn, grow, and succeed as global citizens and involved alumni.” A certain place on campus that has been doing this is the Iowa State University Memorial Union. This practical and historic

  • Maintaining Student Confidentiality in School Systems

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    how notes are taken for all students in the Glendale Union High School District, including Orlando. Typically, notes are entered onto Ms. Karter’s computer after a student is seen, and they are put into a system that every teacher and social worker in the district uses. Not enough information has been reported at this time about how, but it has been discussed with Ms. Karter that other individuals that utilize this software could theoretically read her notes on the students she sees. Because of this

  • Expanding SG's Free Printing to the Hub

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    Budget and Schedule Expanding SG’s free printing to the Hub is a fairly inexpensive project, and it is easily manageable by Student Government’s annual budget. Currently, SG’s free printing at the Reitz Union is funded from the Computer Lab Printing fund, and the yearly budget comes from the Activity and Service Fee of the student tuition ($14.55/credit hour). The approved printing fund is calculated to be $125,740 for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, and it is approximately 0.66 percent of SG’s $18 million

  • Inclusive Leadership Case Study

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    useful to our community partner Jackie and the Asian-American Student Union (AASU). It seems that we have received mixed views on Asian American leadership and inclusivity on campus. There are many diverse things we can do with this research to help Asian Americans on campus feel more included and welcomed. Through our research, we determined that many students on campus were not even aware of the fact that we have an Asian American Student Union. We can take the information we learned through this process

  • Study Abroad Has Been A Lifetime Dream Of Mine

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    Getting the experience to study abroad has been a lifetime dream of mine. Growing up in Sunnyside,where the resources and educational opportunities are limited, I never would have imagined it would be possible to travel to another country. I’m a daughter of immigrant parents and because of their undocumented status, I’ve never had the opportunity to travel outside the United States without the fear or risk of never coming back to the place we call home. I come from a low income household and because

  • Should you commute

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    One of the decisions, which could be one of the toughest, that freshmen students have to make is whether to commute or live on campus. Granted, it is understandable that first year students who come from out of state have no choice but to live on campus. The tough decision has to be made by students who live in close proximity to the University, such as myself. In order to decide which option would be best for a specific student the major differences between commuting and living on campus have to be

  • Marshall Metro High School Case Study

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    Metro High School Attempt to Motivate Students & Teachers to Achieve Higher Performance" is about the different ways the school system used to motivate the students to come to school (Kinicki & Williams, 2013, p.405). It is also a good example of how rewards and behavior can affect the outcome of the situation. The case study starts out with telling you about a simple phone call (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). This call was a wake up call to a habitual late student. This phone call which was early in

  • The Negative Effects Of School Uniforms Effect Modern Day Society

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    How Uniforms Effect Modern Day Society Students are often in a position where they are forced to wear whatever they have. In some instances, students cannot afford the uniform attire. In other instances their bodies will make wearing the uniform uncomfortable. There are more negative effects of being forced to wear a uniform. An example is being dressed in clothes that are disliked adds to the lack of comfort a student feels during the school day. In this regard, school officials should reconsider

  • Student Involvement Fair Paper

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    The student involvement fair took place in front of the Student Union with dozens of organizations. Toledo’s campus has Greek Life, Engineers Without Borders, UT Lift Off, and many more supportive organizations. After walking for around the area for a while, I came across a small table with only two girls attending it. I came across the University of Toledo’s NSSLHA, the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association. The NSSLHA is an organization founded in 1972 for Speech-Language Pathology

  • How Did Peter Jacobs Decide To Join A Fraternity?

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    Our daily lives involve making decisions. One of the many decisions that have been made by many people is when they decide to join a certain fraternity. This happens mostly to students in the higher learning institutions when they are joining. After joining the fraternity, they then make some judgments as to whether they had made a right or the wrong decision. One of the people who was pleased with his decision is Peter Jacobs in his article which talks about his fraternity joining. The article was

  • PVMGO Reflective Essay

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    “Be a student, as long as you still have something to learn and this will mean all your life” (Doherty, 2013). As students, the researchers aim to attain success in the future; and as a guide to this path, schools are implementing such things that may help the students to achieve this. And as a result, the philosophy, vision, mission, goals and outcomes (PVMGOs) of the school were making. The PVMGOs serve as guide of the school for the students, faculty, staffs and stakeholders of the campus

  • Reducing School Suspensions

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    it causes to a student? Have you ever been punished unfairly? Schools everywhere use suspension for their students who severely act up. Although punishing students is necessary, schools should try to understand the student’s reasoning instead of immediately suspending the student. Understanding why the student acted out can help prevent the student from being misunderstood, reduce dropouts, and guide the student to correct their behavior. If we try to understand why the student is acting up, we

  • Ethical Dilemmas In The Classroom Essay

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    teaching profession tends to be subjective by nature where a teacher is confronted with many ethical dilemmas and circumstances where an individual’s own moral code is contested by that of colleague’s, administrator’s, the school community, and the union to name a few. Campbell (1997) provided a series of examples of where teachers had felt that administrators

  • Book Review: Grade Inflation Gone Wild By Stuart Rojstaczer

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    become the average grade among those schools. He adopts a dismissive tone when generalizing and addressing the students on their behaviors and actions. Rojstaczer found over 80 universities with data on they’re grades, using this he was able to better understand the inflation and also analyze possible solutions. His logos based writing portrays a negative connotation on todays students and their ability to achieve within the classroom. There is no hiding that the standard for grades has been on the

  • Reflection Of Teaching Reading As A Class In The Classroom

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    include reading basic terms or reviewing sounds that may be used outside of the classroom. One of the first things I did when we began this class was to look for some way for my students to work in collaborative groups and take the assignments given and understand the material. I struggled to find a happy median between my students. Some were unable to grasp the ideas because they could not sound out the words correctly. Since they do not have the