Students at Simmons College have the luxury of going to school in the heart of the city. The location itself gives the students incredible resources and job opportunities. However, living in the city also has its disadvantages, such as a lack of parking. Parking is essential for a college campus because it gives students accessibility when moving on and off campus, and also gives students the ability to visit with family and friends. The minimal parking availability on the Simmons College Residence Campus has been problematic for both students and faculty of the college. The inability to park on the campus has created additional stress for students trying to return. Students and faculty have been forced to park far away and walk their belongings back to campus or pay unreasonable …show more content…
This will allow for ten additional spots that student or faculty guests can use for visits and drop-offs. This will help tremendously in reducing stress and parking cost for students, faculty, and their visitors. Students will have one less thing to worry about when moving in or out, which can already be considered a stressful event. Faculty will no longer have to pull into the lot to find that their reserved parking spots have been taken. Visitors will be able to focus on spending time with their friends or family, instead of frantically driving around the city trying to find parking (usually, at a very high cost). While the construction for this plan could be costly, if implemented along with the parking pass system, Simmons will be able to create a profit from the expansion, and continue to earn revenue going forward. Since executing this option will only include paving over a 50x50 foot spot of grass and sidewalk, those who live on the residence campus will be able to benefit from the newly renovated parking lot while still being able to enjoy the beautiful
Two professors of different backgrounds, Mike Rose of California, and Gerald Graff, of Illinois, discuss the problems college students face today in America. Though similar in slight variations, both professors view the problem in different regards and prepare solutions that solve what they feel to be the heart of this academic problem.
For some universities, investing into items such as these are a successful method to get students buy into and attend their schools. This is an example of consumerism, the promotion of ideas of buyers, and it is possibly the main cause of the lack of interest in college students today. Items like new vending machines and gymnasiums seem to have a higher interest than a quality education to some. It is desired to attend a college that has activities that are for enjoyment, and this causes some colleges to focus mainly on upgrading their extracurricular programs, which then shifts the student’s attention away from their studies and leaves humanities majors fighting over students. This is a struggle that Edmundson finds himself
Parking on Campus is a Pain New students entering Concordia College are not permitted to have a car on campus. With each new freshman class entering every year, parking represents an issue. Concordia is as of now constrained in its parking on campus and since first year students are not permitted to have cars, the students are confronted with the problem of having no place to park or parking very a long way from their goal. There are parking issues everywhere throughout the campus, making backups in residence hall and other lots, bringing about students parking illegally to avoid from walking far distances, which can be very aggravating in the bitter cold. Parking nearer appears like the reasonable thing to do, however it is a hazard, which
Jane Evans was quoted saying, “These students are supposed to be the cream of the crop, but we would assert, and many of our neighbors would agree, that these students feel grossly entitled to run wild in our streets without any respect for the community in which they live.” (pg. 18) This quote is more than true. I have spent many nights at my friend’s house, and the next morning there will be empty beer cups all over the yard, and most of the night we were kept up by yelling and laughing college students running up and down the streets; she lives in the thick of the college student off campus housing.
The start if college is like the end of one’s childhood. Yet I had no intension of letting that go when I woke up yesterday at 7:00 am. Still, like high school, my mom dropped me off and picked me up; copping almost the exact same routine from the four years I spent in high school. Just as I thought this ought to be the easiest way of transportation, my mom proved me wrong once we reached the University of Washington’s parking lot.
Anytime the idea of making any corrections or additions to the parking lot comes up in a discussion, the notion is put down due to the time the parking lot would be unusable while under renovation. How long does it take pavers to put in a residential driveway? A licensed and bonded concrete crew can lay multiple driveways in one day, and to add an entrance to the parking lot is very comparable. Therefore, if the school shut down the front parking lot for less than a week, students could enter and exit the parking lot quickly and with ease or the school could schedule the work for days the students have off..
The number of complaints relating to Cal State Fullerton’s parking is out of control. Considering the prices CSU Fullerton charges to park at their school, students should be guaranteed a parking space. Students are currently outraged regarding the Cal State Fullerton’s parking conditions. Some students even decide to not attend the school based on the pricing and availability of parking. A school losing an immense number of students only because of the parking situation is insane. Cal State Fullerton should reduce the pricing towards parking for reasons of availability, cost, and profit.
The issue at hand is that Duquesne University students are displeased with the transportation services available to them specifically the SGA Loop Bus. I believe Matt Liberatore speaks for the majority of students when he commented (about the Loop Bus) saying, “It is not as effective as it should be. They’re inconsistent, and aren’t enough prevalent as they should be.” Problems were evident from the beginning of its existence. The Loop Bus is a free service to students of Duquesne University that runs Friday and Saturday beginning at 5:00 in the evening and ending as early as 12:30 and as late as 2:30am. This leads to many cases of being stranded in unfamiliar places throughout the city. Matt also commented on how was inconvenienced during his freshman and sophomore years where he remembers waiting hours until another bus would come because the previous was too small.
Broadening the horizon, colleges can also be added to this list because it is more localized with sponsorship’s and generates a lump sum of donations. The popular town of Vermilion, South Dakota is home to more than 10,000 people, mostly being students who's main job is to study at the University of South Dakota. For everyone that is a Coyote fan they are familiar with the superb girls basketball team that received a brand new gym not so long ago; due to the Howling Pack the new arena was made possible. In Contrary, high schools host a large number of students, mainly being in the thousands, which requires transportation to and from school grounds. These substantial vehicles require tremendous amounts of gas, which can be hard to afford.
A recent survey asked college students the top reasons for re-applying to a university and the top reasons for not re-applying. They had around 58% of the university respond the survey which is around 793 students out of 1373 students (Cleave). The researchers found that the most influential reasons why students did return to school was because of the convenience and the social life (Cleave). On the other hand, the top reasons students did not return to college because of living conditions, and the shear cost of attending (Cleave). This survey further listed the reasons for not re-applying which were, students did not make good enough grades to be re-administered (low GPA), living carders were too noisy, to support a family, rooms were too small, food quality was poor, they had little to no privacy, residency on campus was too expensive, and taking out loans every year was putting them into too much
The focus of this paper is to dispel a common view that community colleges do not provide on-campus housing and to provide greater insights into the types of community colleges that provide on-campus housing, the typical student who resides in on-campus housing, a guide to various California community colleges that provide on-campus housing, and the impact that on-campus housing has on student learning outcomes, financial gains for community colleges that provide on-campus housing, and an overview of the lack of data in the area of not only on-campus housing in community colleges, but community colleges at large. According to Cohen and Brawer (2008) access to student housing is one of the fundamental dissimilarities between public community colleges and four-year institutions of higher learning (p. 220). Cohen and Brawer (2008) take the position that community colleges lack the all-encompassing ability to appreciate the connectedness of community in the same fashion as that of four-year colleges or universities. Broader analysis of current data relating to on-campus housing in rural community colleges is three-fold. First, it exposes the lack of concrete observation or empirical data on the issues that surround community colleges with respect to on-campus housing. A wealth of data supports the learning outcomes, financial impact, gains, and drawbacks of on-campus housing, but from the vantage point of on-campus housing at the four year college or university level. Data shared were from several sources, one which dates back to 1998 and the other two from 2005 and 2006. With little research expected from community college faculty and administrators, the community college as a whole suffers from the lack of empirical studies wit...
Last week I planned on visiting the Historical Museum on Garden Pier. I rode down New Jersey Avenue between the former Revel and Showboat casinos, looking for a place to park. The street was packed with cars, but I found an opening next to a driveway. There was no paint on the curb marking how close you could park to the end, but I thought I could squeeze in. With the city's $100 million dollar budget shortfall, they probably cut out frivolous spending like curb paint.
Parking legally by the residence halls is almost impossible. Students who live at particular dorms find themselves faced with the problem of having to park on the other side of campus. Students who live in the valleys comment that they are surprised with the numerous tickets that are written every day and how it isn’t always clearly spelled out where they can park. They complain on how some parking spaces involve lengthy walks in the freezing cold weather, and how easily the lots fill up. Whenever I'm riding with someone and they have to park by my hall or any other, they usually park in the 30 min parking and leave their car there for hours, or in the faculty lots to avoid walking from the lot up the hill. These actio...
Parking on campus needs improving. Students entering the university are allowed to have a car on campus. With every new freshmen class entering parking posses a problem on campus. The campus is already limited in its parking on campus and since freshmen are allowed to have cars, the students before them are faced with the dilemma of how many new freshmen will be bringing a car to school.
...school. Time is not an issue for students living on campus because they reside at the college, which makes it a lot easier to get to class. Whereas, students, who commute struggle to get up in order to catch a bus or two to get to class on time. Students living on campus can spend extra money on other things such as movies since they don’t have to pay for food or transportation. In contrast, students who commute need to save money on the side in order to have access to public transportation to get to class and pay for food at the school. Students living on campus are familiar with places around the college and they know more students. However, students commuting don’t have time for this since they are more worried about getting home on time. Living on campus should be considered by most college student since it appears to be a lot less stressful than living at home.