The problems faced by college athletics range from the athlete becoming "professionalized" to the weight placed on the "scoreboard" to the commercialism of college sports. Until the NCAA and individual colleges' athletic departments can formulate a plan to "de-professi...

"In the months before a sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology died, she spoke with seven psychiatrists and one social worker. The psychiatrists diagnosed major depression; the therapist recommended hospitalization. She even told a dean that she was cutting herself and let a profess...

College's Stress Stress, an emotional, intellectual, or physical reaction to change or demands, happens naturally in everyone's life. Stress comes to each individual differently; "the same situation is not evocative or stressful for all people, and all people do not experience the ...

College education has gotten quite a bit of talk within the last few years. The talking helps to show why the cost of education has been on a steady rise. For many years college education was not that important, but now with not so many job openings and a lot of people wanting jobs, it requires more...

Abstract College students all stress out about one situation/life generality or another. Some of these situations/life generalities are individuation, computer anxiety, ethnic and gender roles in student-athletes, and mathematics anxiety. Introduction There have been many studies looking at stre...

Community College Students Create A Self-Image In Their Life Swimming with the current is much easier than swimming against the current. If people are not able to follow the trend, they will not belong to this time anymore. "Most of the time each of us is a member of a group, sometimes a...

There is a Problem with Having Cable Television on College Campuses Eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night, walking through the brightly lit halls, many doors wide open in a dormitory complex on the campus of Bowling Green State University, one can see that the only light that emerges from...

College Student-Athletes Can be Compensated for Their Services to Universities. Every year nearly 330,000 college students don uniforms and become student-athletes for their respective schools (NCAA). These students participate in a wide variety of interests, from football to crew, cross country...

Never have I been the type of girl to question anyone of an authority or superior figure, but I must say that after reading Mark Edmundson's essay On the Uses of a Liberal Education I do question his motives and opinions. In his essay, Mr. Edmundson worries mainly about receiving a good evalua...

Stress is something that people face everyday. College students seem to face problems that have a harsher impact on their lives than others. These students have to face the demands of teachers, parents and peers. Many of these demands can lead to overwhelming stresses. According to William Zinsser, ...

In the area of collegiate sports, there have been numerous heated debates about the integrity of many things concerning the NCAA and how it handles legal and ethical issues. Two well renowned scholars tackle this issue in their co-authored book entitled "College Athletes for Hire, The Evol...

Introduction The concept of accountability as applied to college students is one that has provoked arguments among a wide variety of populations. Educators, parents, mental health counselors, media "analysts," law enforcement specialists, and fellow college students have voiced their opinions ran...

Who is Benefiting from Service Learning? When a high school senior is looking at colleges to further their education they have many deciding factors that lie ahead of them. Do they attend a college that is known for its academics? Do they choose a university that is known for just its name? Or d...

The Spice of Life In her sparkly brand new kitchen, Kimmy retrieves her favorite cookbook from the cabinet. Her taste buds dance in her mouth as she prepares to "whip up" a scrumptious Lemon Zest bunt cake. As she reaches below her counter and grasps the handle of the cabinet that co...

DISORDERS OF SHYNESS AND SOCIAL DESIRABILITY Social Disorders of Shyness and Social Desirability in College students Abstract I examined the physical interaction and involvement in social situations alleviates social approval disorders, as doe constant reassurance of oneself when placed in ...

Introduction – General Motivation Issues in American Undergraduate Education: One of the unanticipated consequences of dramatically increased enrollment in college-level education in the last half of the 20th century is the dilution of its value as a bona fide credential. In the ...

Take two high school students who want to go to college. One has a 3.9 grade point average and a 27 on their S.A.T. While the other student has a 3.0 and got a 21 on their S.A.T. Which student would you expect for a college to want? Would you be surprised to find out that the student with the lower ...

With millions of dollars in merchandising and television contracts at stake, colleges have a lot of money riding on the recruitment, education, and performance-both on and off the field-- of college athletes. Colleges lure the athletes to their school, and make sure they meet the eligibility requ...

During the decade of the 1960's, the United States began to fully celebrate youth culture in a way that had only begun to brew in the 1950's. Youth culture began to rise and was thrust into mainstream America because what was occurring was a widespread rebellion against the mass society o...

Schools of higher education have strict admission standards on the academic performance of perspective students. To even be considered as an applicant, students must first complete the SAT or ACT, both of which are standardized tests. The scores from these examinations along with their high sc...

Affirmative action, as defined by Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, is "an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women." This sounds like a very positive thing, however in its course of action, it causes reverse discrimination again...

Checking Your Beliefs at the Classroom Door As a first year college student I came to the University with expectations of learning great things, little did I know that in order to achieve this wisdom that I seek, I would have to endure having everything I have ever believed in ripped apart. M...

Equal Funding Today, universities throughout the country have to face the problem of equality in athletics. Colleges are being forced to re-evaluate the funds that are being distributed to each program. Men and women's athletic programs are finally being required to be given the same amou...

In Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Phaedrus thought of a very clever way to make students work for themselves and not just for a good grade. He wanted students to attend college because they were interested in learning and not just because they needed a degree. Pha...

Learning from Speech Many students nowadays see a college or university as a place where you can acquire higher education and also a place where you can go to be exposed to and taste the real world. Such an experience would include exposure to different kinds of people, areas of knowledge, and ma...