Category: College

The most significant challenge impacting the juvenile justice system in the United States is substance abuse, specifically the use of hard drugs like cocaine, meth, and similar substances. In this essay I will focus mostly on the Luisa Cutting case from earlier this year. I will then compare it to Brenda Spencer’s case as in…

Transitioning from excessive college to college, while pleasing and exciting, can additionally be very challenging. It is an enormous milestone in one’s existence due to the fact a scholar will either adjust to or struggle. There are many differences yet positive similarities as well, which will no longer sense as if the university is a…

Who I am now My name is Ubah Hassan, I’m 18 years old, and I recently graduated from high school. I am the eldest and first person to go to college in my family. Honestly, a couple of reasons why I decided to go to Metro State was that it looked like a good –…

It is hard to imagine an education system that tells students that they don’t need to go to college after graduating. It is emphasized from the start the importance of attending college after high school to receive higher education. Even so, both high school students and their parents are wondering if college is even worth…

[ One of the greatest debates of our time is the topic of college education: specifically, who should go to college and how important it is to attend. O’Halloran (2018) states, “Given the crises that public higher education is currently facing, we are in desperate need of creative solutions” (p. 33). Some contend that too…

I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, when I was in middle school I moved an hour away to another small town where I am currently living. Since I grew up in a small town I would like to attend a smaller or private college. I like to think I am like most…

Academic Advising is a complex process that will affect whether a student will be successful at a university or not ​(Balenger & Sedlacek, 1991). Good academic advising involves ‘the dissemination of educational and career-related information students confronted who are in the process of developing and creating academic and career plans. One of the main ways…

Why do we go to college? Why school in general For all my school years I haven’t enjoyed school I’ve wondered why is it that I must do 12 years of something I don’t want to do just to learn about stuff I’m not going to do. I’ve never been interested in college or school…

This essay will discuss the 2019 College Admissions Bribery Scandal, also known as Operation Varsity Blues, in relation to two public relations theories: the framing theory used by media and public relations practitioners and the rhetoric theory to persuade the public. Within the essay, there will be assertions to where framing is used by public…

Twelve percent of high school graduates never attend or even enroll in a college or university. That is not a very monumental percentage, but it is the result of too much pressure placed on high school students’ shoulders to go to college. Some students, when they graduate from high school, decide not to attend college…