Introduction Harold Washington College the fifth oldest of seven city colleges is formerly named Loop College, opened in 1962. Loop College was renamed in April 1962, to commemorate and memorialize Mayor Harold Washington, the first African-American mayor of Chicago. The name change was appropriate, given the fact that Mayor Harold Washington was an alumnus of City Colleges of Chicago. Additionally, he was known best for his love for education, community, and bringing together diverse groups of people to make lasting change. This message is echoed throughout the mission of Harold Washington College. In his commencement address to Loop College May 1984, he resounded a message upon which the culture of the college to this day stands strong. …show more content…
The college is committed to upholding high institutional and academic standards and to understanding and improving student learning. (City Colleges of Chicago Orientation Online …show more content…
Accountability will remain an important issue because it goes hand-in-hand with funding. Additionally the question of how to pay for education is a prominent one. As stated by Kallison, and Cohen (2010) “We need to return to governmental policies and programs that provide adequate federal and state funding to public higher education institutions and increase financial aid students, particularly low- and moderate-income students. Funding must return to levels in which spending on higher education per student keeps pace with inflation” (p. 41). Merely because an institution is accountable does not mean it is supersede standards and high quality (Kallison and Cohen, 2010). Accountability is “the obligation to report to others, to explain, to justify, to answer ques¬tions concerning the utilization of resource.”
The author conveys his opinion of community college as “the place that made me what I am today” (Hanks 11) clearly expressing his gratitude of the institution, Chabot College. While expressing
She includes quotes from George Boggs, president of American Association of Community Colleges, who says, “colleges are going to have to adapt to serve this population,” and that “community colleges have been the most adaptable institutions around…they are very flexible in trying to meet the needs of the students (Sander 784).” Sander makes the connection for the reader that with the influx of baby boomer students colleges will be forced to make changes in an effort to accommodate
How many Americans recognize the man on the back of the one hundred dollar bill? Do you know who he is and why he is on the back of that bill? If you said George Washington then you are right! It is said that when one begins something that others will follow behind you and in George Washington's case that is correct. George Washington paved the way for many other presidents that followed after him up until the one we currently have today. Without our first president we would not have our current president. George Washington made huge contributions and achievements to our country that still stand today.
George Washington, the first president of the United States, had written a very important historical speech and document towards the end of his time in office. He had written the Farewell address which focused on helping America understand the importance of preserving unity, acknowledging the rise of political parties forming, strengthening religion and morality, and he stated his position on American foreign policy. He addressed these ideas with strong tone and used incredible amount of dictions that strengthens his tone as well as representing his appeal to ethos to a strong degree. However, today’s society seemed to forget Washington’s position on foreign policy and has created a new form of the policy. But nonetheless as time grew, change occurs. In today’s society Washington’s foreign policy would include many positive and negative manifestations, but it is still a speech and document that will always apply to America.
No matter the previous career path, preventive circumstances, prior academic history or lack of self-confidence, these colleges provide the tools for anyone to further their education. The common students at these facilities understand the importance of education because they’ve experienced the beast of life. One could argue that perhaps this understanding goes a bit deeper than that of one at a four year institution. Any way you slice it, community colleges offer the ability for everyone to academically arrive on common ground. This should be a triumph, not a
Out of forty three presidents, I think my that my favorite president would have to be the first, and most well known, George Washington. He was a great military leader, and was seemingly impervious to the corrupting influence of power. The man that many refer to as the Father of the United States of America, who served 2 terms, was and still is truly inspirational figure from American history. One of the things that tips the scale of my favor toward Washington is that he believed in the Republic of the United States of America, and that we each had certain inalienable rights that were not up for debate or a vote. If there were more people like him in the U.S. today, we may not be in the condition that we are.
George Washington was our nation’s first president and a well respected leader, but what gave him this reputation? In David McCullough’s 1776, Washington’s leadership skills that brought the colonies to victory can be easily seen. As British and American politicians struggled to reach a compromise, events on the ground escalated until war was inevitable. McCullough recreates scenes of heroic battles as well as dramatic encounters between diplomats with outstanding details in his writing.
Thesis Statement: George Washington is a hero because he stood up for his ideal that America should be free from England, and create a new form of government which would be fair and equitable. Even in the darkest of times, he never gave up and managed to maintain social and political order within the colonies.
Because universities are extending the number of applicants they are accepting, a lot of people question whether community colleges still matter. Personally, I share Liz Addison, for¬¬¬mer Southern Maine Community College student and graduate of Royal Veterinary College in London, opinion that appears in her essay “Two Years Are Better than Four” published in 2007. In her essay, even though Addison rebuts Rick Perlstein’s perspective that community colleges no longer matter as they once did, explains the philosophy of community college, and recounts her college experience, she mostly focus on proving her opinion, stated in the last paragraph of the essay, that “college does still matter”(258). In other words, Adison thinks that college still
The United States of America was formed by many president's of our time. One of these very influential presidents was George Washington. Courageous, smart and firm. The "founding father" has influenced many people today. He was a commander in chief of the forces during the Revolutionary War, chairman of the convention that wrote the Constitution, and the very first president. He has made very important decisions that still influence our country today.
Politicians claim that Accountability is needed. Dylan Wiliam wrote that “The logic of accountability is deceptively simple”(110) He goes on to say that “students attending higher quality schools will (by definition) have higher achievement than those attending lower quality schools, so that the differences in quality of schools will result in systematic differences in achievement between schools”(110). Yes indeed accountability is needed. It is needed for those who pay for education (tax payers) and the people who are educated (the students). The institutions that regulate education should be held accountable for the policies they enact as well as the government that approved those actions. “Of the total variance in mathematics achievement of 15-year-olds in the United States in 2004 only 8% was attributable to the actual quality of the education provided by the school, the results in science are similar” (111). This is an indictment of the American school system, it points out that standardized testing is in fact inaccurate and unnecessary.
In 1890, Mary A. Blood and Ida Morey founded ‘Columbia College Chicago (Columbia).’ Columbia, formerly known as the ‘Columbia School of Oratory’, renamed themselves to ‘Columbia School of Expression’ in 1927. In the same year Columbia became a joint institution with ‘Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College’, but eventually decided to leave the partnership in 1944. Columbia was renamed for the third and final time in 1992 as ‘Columbia College Chicago.’ With a new name, Columbia set out to build the school into an ‘urban institution’ that would offer classes taught by the most creative professionals in Chicago. Today, Columbia continues to challenge their students to realize their abilities with their motto, “esse quam videri”, which means “to be, rather than to seem” (“Columbia College Chicago”). While the backgrounds of these schools vary, location of these schools plays a factor in deciding which to
The education system has been changing in recent years and the same problems that existed continue to get worse as years pass. Problems that were seen as minor at first have now grown. How to change the public higher education system has been a major topic of discussion but there has still been no major action taken. We struggle to figure out how much funding is needed for higher education and where it should come from. Our people continue to suffer from an underfunded high cost system. The wealthy minority of people continue to be the only ones accounted for and it is time to change this. We need to adapt to the changes and the costs that continue to rise. It is time to help the struggling middle and lower classes. I believe that the best
George Washington is arguably the single most important figure in all of American history. As the first President of this nation, he set the stage for what the public head was supposed to act like and do as well as established many rules for a lot of the ideology that America has today. Historians believe that he is the major reason all of the American presidents prior to Franklin Delano Roosevelt only served for two terms and the reason they did a lot of what they did publically in the sight of America. Today, everyone in the world knows the name George Washington and knows what he’s done to create the world everyone lives in today. He kept America from becoming another monarch and brought it to eventually be a great power
The decade of the 1980s saw numerous calls for widespread school reform, with changes recommended in teacher education, graduation requirements, school structure, and accountability measures. With the advent of the 1990s, school reform finally to...