The University Should Extend the Add/Drop Period for Classes
If there is one thing I'm good at, it is shopping. I find the best deals, make the most out of every shopping trip and generally derive great pleasure from the process. Unfortunately, State College students are only given a very short time to shop for our courses and even less time to return our books to the bookstore for the classes we dropped. The more classes you attend and professors you meet, the more educated your final decision will be at the end of add/drop. If you miss the first day of a Tuesday/Thursday class, you will have to base your judgment of the class on a mere two lectures. I may be a good shopper, but when it comes to classes, no one is that good.
University of Southern California students are given three weeks to finalize their schedules without penalty. Students at MIT can drop a class up until three weeks before the END of the semester. If a student at State College dropped a course that late into the semester, the dreaded "W" for "Withdrawn" would appear on his or her transcript. The first tw...
The Federal Government has set guidelines concerning students who receive Title IV Aid and completely withdraw from school or stop attending courses. Any student making a complete withdrawal or that stops attending their classes who received a Federal Pell Grant, SEOG, Subsidized Stafford Loan, Unsubsidized Stafford Loan or a Parent (PLUS) Loan, will be required to pay back money to the school immediately if they drop out or stop attending courses before 60% of the semester has been finished. After the calculations are figured, the Financial Aid Office will notify any student that might owe money back to the Federal Government. Your Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress status will also be evaluated at the end of the semester and you will be notified accordingly
I cherish the fact that at Cornell, students are encouraged to take courses across colleges. During the past two years, I have been able to broaden my view of the world by taking classes in various fields outside of STEM, and I would like to further explore fields yet unfamiliar to me. Specifically, I am interested in courses through Cornell’s Human Ecology College and College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, including apparel design and fashion management. Taking specialized courses will hopefully help me pinpoint the area of art I want to concentrate in for graduate studies and my future career. Besides the major field, I would like to further explore fields that I am interested in, such as Boxing, Wine Tasting and Magical Mushrooms Mischievous
Ever since funding became an option for students to use for college tuition, college enrollees, and re-enrollment rates have an increase (Singell, 1). However, some students in America attend a college or a university for the sake of entertainment due to boredom and seeing their peers going to college. Because of those reasons, these students are taking advantage of what financial aid has to offer them. Some schools’ policy for dropping out of courses is way too generous for college students. The college “permits dropping class and re-enrolling until passing grade is in sight,” this means the money that was given to these students is being wasted, and the educational process is not improving at all (Toby,
Lucinda lives in a small apartment off-campus. She has been frequently late for classes and missed multiple class periods each semester. She has been experiencing a lot of stress trying to keep up with her class work and considering dropping 1 to 2 courses this semester. ...
The courses offered at college are considered valuable in their own way. Value is defined as the worth of something in terms of the amount of other things for which it can be exchanged or in terms of some medium of exchange (Value). The phrase “the amount of other things for which can be exchanged” is relevant to the college experience and skills in exchange for tuition fees. According to the Associates in Arts General Education (GE) requirements, students at San Joaquin Delta College have about 150 different courses offered to them. Students can select courses based on interest, but what they don’t know is that any course will be of greater value to them. For example, several courses such as culinary arts, foreign language, and communication studies offer “life skills” that are beneficial because they are commonly used both in and out of a workplace. Employers often seek people who are bilingual and have effective communication skills. These are some of the reasons why college students and graduates are considered “better” than the average person in certain areas. Learning and having these skills are important because not one job or career requires only one skill.
Since the early 70s theorists have pondered the causes of college dropout. Generally referred to as “student attrition,” this problem has spurred numerous causal theories and theoretical models. Vincent Tinto led the research with his revolutionary 1973 study, which he later revised (1987) amid criticism from other luminaries in the field, most notably Bean, Astin, Terenzini, and Pascarella. It is on the work of these scholars (including also Tinto) that all modern research in the student attrition field is based. I found and will review in brief some of the extensive research from Tinto to the present, including the basic criticisms therein. I will further explain the steps some colleges are currently taking to counteract this increasingly important issue.
I have often wondered what it would be like to experience the freedom of choosing my own class schedule. This has to be infinitely more stimulating and enjoyable. I am also aware that college will be significantly more challenging, but I have always found it easier to study for a class that interests me. I am willing to accept the fact that as long as I am in school, there will be required courses which may not engender excitement or enthusiasm; however, success should not be as difficult to achieve due to the maturity that is developing during this last year of high school. In addition, I have gained an understanding of the benefit of being well rounded. There is value in all classes taken. It helps to know that even my least favorite subject will contribute to the ultimate goal of personal and career development.
Are students in your school accidently falling asleep in class, getting sick, and making low grades? All of these issues may be caused by the simple factor of school beginning too early in the morning. People may not be aware of the effects of school starting times, but many students are impacted by them every day.
What is your perspective on today’s high school schedule? From a student’s point-of-view I think it is more stressful than it should be. I believe that we should come to school at the same time as usual but we should only have our four main courses, which are mathematics, english, history, and science. This idea would take so much stress and worrying out of all the students’ minds. First off we would be a lot more focused because there are only four classes instead of seven. Another reason would be that we have a lot more time to do our homework or study for our classes because school would be let out earlier. Surely, there are a lot of students who are involved in after school activities and we will be more effective in our sport or activity because we will have more time to practice.
The national sleep foundation took a poll in 2006 showing the over one half of adolescents are getting less than 8 hours asleep (“Small”). Teens are supposed to get eight and half hours to nine hours of sleep. Schools’ starting at eight o’clock is absurd. Having teens get up at six or seven o’clock is very unhealthy for the brain. As a high school student it would help me if Broken Arrow Schools started later in the morning so I had time to completely wake up and eat breakfast to get my body going. Research shows that teens naturally go to sleep later and sleep later in the mornings (“Sleep”). Delaying the time school starts by thirty minutes to an hour could show an improvement on health in teens, their grades and morning traffic.
Piling on classes is only going to lead to a stressful and unhappy semester. Dropping a class before the deadline is an important factor to consider because the student could keep the class or drop it based on the schedule. Dropping a class isn’t always a bad thing, this could allow the student to put more time into other classes without being overwhelmed. Employers don’t look at what classes a student took each semester. They view the overall grades and GPA the student completed, so what for be stressed and overwhelmed? In my own observation, I saw my brother very stress from trying to take on a load of classes he couldn’t handle the amount of work. He was able to drop two classes before the deadline, so everything worked out in the end. He learned his lesson to break away at his degree in small pieces rather than stressing over too much work and to large of a
time. I ended up failing both classes that I was taking at the time and took a semester off to
More school, I don’t think so ! an hour and a half may not seem like a lot of time but when our day and time is already full then an hour and a half can throw everything out of whack. To begin with, there would be a lot less time for sports and friends. As much as I hate doing them, chores there just would not be enough time to do them and lets face it our parents really like that one. I do understand that chores teach us responsibility and they also teach us to appreciate and take care of things we have. Finally, we would not have enough time to get our homework done and that would cause us to get bad grades and more students would be failing their classes. As can be seen, extending the school hours would not allow the children a break to rest our brains.
I do not think school should be longer, I think it is fine how it is. It has enough hours and kids learn about how much they should be learning. It is about 6 ½ hours of school.
Students have different preferences or requirements in planning their time to make their purposes. This is one of my points to support that students should have the right to right to choose their own class schedule. Some people will prefer to attend class or study during the morning while there are some people like to attend evening or night classes. While they were studying in primary and secondary school, they didn’t have any choices or minor authority in choosing their study period. Studying in college is apart of life. Therefore, students should have more freedom or right to planning the usage of their time. They will need to practice in how to planning their time for the rest of their life. For sure, they won’t be given any instructions by the others about what should be done in a particular time after they are graduated from college. And they may have the different feeling and studying in a brand new study atmosphere comparing to the earlier education system that they used to have. By the way, some of the students are graduated from the high schools years ago. They are part-time students or back to college after working for few years. They have knowledge and experience that able them to plan their time suitable. Besides, some people do need to work in ordering to gain their tuition fee or living expenses. Some of them are probably working when there were studying in secondary school. If they can choose their class schedule, many problems that are unnecessary can be avoided. For examples, they can continue with their current job and study in the same time. The most important thing is time can be saved in finding another job that fix their class schedule. And they may do the same thing if the administration keeps changing thei...