Many institutions tend to diversify their campuses, but it is hard for them to accommodate with everyone. They often try to create awareness amongst their students to advice and persuade them to respect one another and except their difference too. Recent years, having diverse student body became a good way that colleges to praise themselves in order to attract new students. It became a good incentive that many colleges are competing against each other in order to make their campuses more tolerant. Even though diversity and accepting difference is widely recognized in many institutions, but every college has its own ways of applying these values. However, I disagreed with student for asking the college to modify its policy of requiring freshmen …show more content…
The college made its rules in order to give its students a better education where they can achieve their goals. However, Alisha, the orthodox Jaw student, made unfair arguments where he blamed the college in way that they intended to discriminate him and his friends (Hack 2). He misunderstood that the college is more concerned about its student’s than he thought. College does not want to make the students to feel isolated and disrespected, but rather they want their students to be combatable in their spaces. I understand that college cannot satisfy every single student, but they are always ready to accommodate with the students who particular have some concerns about the residence or education. According to Richard, the dean of Yale College, mentioned in his article, Dormitory Life Is Essential to a Yale Education, that it is one of the Yale’s core values to keep their students in the dormitory for first two years in order to let students to have intercultural conversation regarding their distinct beliefs (Brodhead 1). So, the whole point of keeping students in the campus is a good way that students can meet one another in order to feel comfortable around each …show more content…
Possibly it can be a slippery slope where everybody wants a change. If the situation turns out this way, they college will lose its reputation and every other rule that had been applied to the student will be softened. Rules are made because to support the college to maintain its status. The college spent a lot of time to figure out which rules can work both for students and the college, but it is hard to find a rule that makes everyone happy. The college can lose its trust for its students if they change their residence policy because rules are what makes the institutions to function properly. There is only one option that the college can apply to this situation, compromising with the student as I mentioned earlier. The college can make a common ground where the students get little bit what they demanded and the college policy remains untouched.
The finally remarks of the situation will be that college policy stays the same, but these students deserve to talk out their claims with the college officials if they are willing to. It is professionally appropriate for the college to insist to their rules unless the rules are vicious to the entire student body. The college did not make the rules without scrutinizing the negative consequences that can yield it in the
Education is a huge topic of controversy, society is always trying to reform what we know as education today. Right now, the first 12 years of education are entirely free for students directly, but in the end are paid for by the taxpayers of the town. The question is, why should only grades k-12 be free why not a college education too? On the other hand, there are some exceptions to free schooling at the k-12 levels. The most prominent being, Private schooling, most towns in the United States have at least one if not many private schools. They require a certain amount in tuition for each of its students every year. An example of this, in my town Salem, NH one of the most known private catholic schools is St. Joseph 's. I had a good friend a few years back
In the essay “Campus Diversity and Student Self-Segregation: Separating Myths from Facts” by Debra Humphreys, the writer explains the research conducted on racial and ethnic groups in many diverse universities. Humphrey’s cites recent research of diversity and self-segregation on college campuses to determine the benefits of each. Humphrey’s first gives us her point of view of self-segregation in which she thinks it doesn’t have a positive impact on students today in the classroom and later on in life. She believes that diversity is an “essential ingredient in many students’ persistence and success in college.” (575, Hoeffner and Hoeffner).
College is full of new experiences, new people, and new communities, and many universities encourage the exchange of new ideas and diversity among students. This year, the University of Chicago sent out a letter to all of its incoming freshmen informing them that in keeping with their beliefs of freedom of expression and healthy discussion and debate, the school would not provide “safe spaces” or “trigger warnings”. Senior Sophie Downes found this letter to be misleading in many ways, including in the definitions of safe spaces and trigger warnings, as well as the issues it was addressing. Downes claims that the letter was misrepresenting the school, but also was using the letter as a sort
In India, campuses increasingly becoming diverse, the diversity of student groups and particularly the presence of a high number of lower caste students become a serious concern of campuses. Compositionally diverse campuses might create substantial problems regarding the campus climate and student-to-student relations on racial lines (Smith et al., 1997). The DLE model explains the institutional context (climate for diversity) in which intentional curricular and co-curricular practices educate all the students and enhance the climate for diversity. In other words, improving the campus climate means “institutional transformation”; transformation is a positive change that effectively influences institutional culture, values, staff, policy, and routine operations. Similarly, Milem et al., (2005) concluded diversity and inclusion discourse has moved beyond diverse students, employee groups, and programs as final goals. In fact, they are multilayered processes and initiatives that influence institutional life to achieve the benefits of
And finally, colleges and universities have to be inclusive of varied student subpopulations. They need to determine and address the special needs of groups such as racial/ethnic minorities, women, athletes, Greeks, students of different ages, and gay and lesbian students.
Racism is one of the major issues in the world today. Many people are not aware of racism still existing in schools. It is obvious that racism is bad as it was many decades ago but it sure has not gone away. Racism very much exists and it is about time that people need to start thinking about solutions to this matter. Many people believe that it depends on if a person was brought into the world as a racist or not but that is not the case at all. In fact, an individual cannot be born a racist but only learn to become one as they grow from child to adulthood.
Facing something that we want to judge, we can not only find its disadvantages, then ignore its advantages and values, and that’s the same for colleges. As a matter of fact, we need to face everything with fair judgements rather than prejudices. Community college or two-years college is good for us to choose; don’t let the prejudices influence our
Dental professionals have a commitment to respect diversity and create equity of access to dental care for everyone (GDC, 2014). Diversity describes any dimension that can be used to differentiate an individual from others. It requires understanding that each individual is unique and accepting and respecting these individual differences (QCC,2013). These differences could be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, age, socio-economic status or other ideologies (QCC, 2013). Understanding the impact that these differences may pose is vital in dealing professionally with people from diverse backgrounds and delivering equal treatment for all. Equality refers to identical treatment in dealings quantitates and values (Braveman, and Gruskin, 2003). Thus, creating equality for all might not mean that there are no disparities between different groups. Equity on the other hand refers to fairness and the equality of outcomes and involves recognizing aspects of a system that may disadvantage a certain group and correcting them (Braveman, and Gruskin, 2003). Therefore, in order to overcome potential pitfalls that may create inequity to access, there is a need to explore the different factors encountered in our diverse society that may create these issues. As an example, patients from different ethnic backgrounds may be faced with barriers accounting for the less frequent use of dental care (CQC. 2010). This group will be used as an example and some of the issues behind this inequity of access will be looked at further.
When diversity is being discussed, there are a plethora of ideas that are associated with it. Whether people are talking being put on a waitlist for college, about people of color, or about representation in the media, the subject of diversity is not rare. Recently, the conversation of diversity has become more common because colleges want to demonstrate that they have diversified campus. How would diversity on campus be defined? Most importantly, diversity is more than having an extraordinary personality. Race, gender, sexuality, and social status are a few of the superfluous traits that make an individual unique in a college’s eyes. In Sophia Kerby’s article, “10 Reasons Why We Need Diversity on College Campuses”, she notes that, while there has already been an effort to diversify high schools and middle schools, accepting students of different backgrounds is not as apparent in higher education (1) . A university desires to diversify its campus in order to benefit the students that are attending the college. Students are not only likely to improve
...of deciding whether or not there should be enforcement of a policy or taking part of the rules that are to be implemented could decrease the number of students that are against the policy. Now ask yourselves this, how American and just are these uniform policies?
I am writing this essay to represent my knowledge of the current school residential rules and regulations that I have broken on multiple occasions. I was told to write this essay due to my lack of education on the rules regarding residential life guest and visitation, residential lif noise quiet hours violations, residential life keys and registration, and residential life compliance which lead to me breaking the rule on campus. On November 18th, 2015, the UMBC peer review council met to hear my case arising from my November 4, 2015 charge letter. Here I was found guilty for all the charges against me. On this campus, my main focus should be to do well in my classes and learn from my experiences. Causing trouble throughout residential buildings should not be a part of any of the action that I have came to school for. To show my understanding of the rules and regulations that I have broken I will state the rules I have went against and show I have went against them, I will also state the consequences given to me and show how these incidents have affected my life on campus directly.
While studying or even registering for a class presents a challenge to some college students, the greatest obstacle remains, going to class. Attending college is supposed to signify a new found freedom to make many important choices regarding education without high school mandatory attendance policies. However, students everywhere are coming to the staggering realization that college is not too different from high school. Teachers still take class roll and students are still expected to be at every class on time. What next, hall monitors in the hall? The time has come for action to be taken. Colleges must abolish mandatory student attendance policies for several reasons to be further discussed.
Diversity and Inclusion are important to the University of Toledo’s campus because they don’t just serve to one ethnicity, they serve to many. Many different kinds of cultures come to UT to give themselves an education and to better themselves. Here at the University, they want everyone to get along with each other, since it’ll make coming to school more exciting
Nowadays, universities are open place for all people. More and more educational chances have been created for those who want to acquire knowledge from colleges and universities. While registering for a college course seems to be no longer complicated, there still remains an obstacle that has been triggered so much controversy in academic environment: mandatory attendance policy. This policy, which is imposed by some schools or some professors, requires that college student must attend class regularly enough or their exam papers will be extracted some attendance points (that usually count for about 15 or 20 percent of the total grade evaluation). In my opinion, this policy is useless and burdensome to many people involved. University students should be free in choosing which classes to attend.
Nobody should have time to conform to other people’s wants and needs. We should be surrounding ourselves with people who are accepting us for what we have to offer. However, for some people, they succumb to the peer pressures in college.