Sullivan is referring to a growing sentiment across campuses that the college experience must provide more than a traditional curriculum of textbooks and follow-up discussions.
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Strive for College also aims to help students graduate with the least amount of student loan debt possible, ensuring stronger graduation rates and enhancing the college experience.
He adds that the college administration accepted the wireless plan on the condition that computers would become an integral part of the college experience - and have they ever.
It is something of a miracle that, as the free market turns the college experience into more of a luxury product, colleges have been so successful at finding money to offset the costs for those who cannot afford the full fare.
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Once kids get out of high school, making college affordable is absolutely critical. (Applause.) We have to redesign the college experience so that -- not everybody is going to go to school for four years right in a row when they're 18.
Assuming that these new books are right (not a fully warranted assumption), and that many students are increasingly disengaged from the academic part of the college experience, it may be because the system has become too big and too heterogeneous to work equally well for all who are in it.
For those kids that will benefit most from the full college experience, and may need pushed out the door to get there, the undecided major should still be part of an overall plan to give the student the best chance to succeed.
Your housing situation can be one of the most stressful aspects of the whole college experience.
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Growing numbers of people are looking for alternatives to the traditional college experience.
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And there is no equivalent of Animal House or the huge literature on high school and college experience in the United States both in films and books in Europe.
Is there anything about the college, university experience that has changed the way you think about people from other backgrounds?
And only one in five parents said they strongly agreed that children should attend college for the experience, no matter their future earnings potential, down from one in three in the 2009-10 academic year, when the question was first asked.
"If last year was in many respects the perfect storm of talent and experience to get us to the College World Series, this has been kind of the reverse perfect storm, " Senk said Thursday from his office on Long Island, N.
For the stars, the lack of a traditional college experience may not be such a bad thing, says Cowen.
An 18-year-old college student said the experience had taught him more than 10 cushy lifetimes ever could.
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Maroe, 30, says the idea grew out of his experience as an outsider applying to college in the U.S. from Norway.
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Anything about your college experience that has changed the way you think about people from different backgrounds?
Roche said kickers who lack experience at the major-college level face daunting odds.
Youth employment is the lowest since the 1950s, and for the first time more unemployed people have college experience than not.
Applicants with backgrounds in law enforcement and the military are given special preference, but the positions are open to anyone with a college degree or three years of professional experience who proves up to the job, Minerly said.
Modern critics should get over the idea that college might soon go away, and instead focus on how to make the experience better and more accessible to students from every walk of life.
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After the rigors of my boarding school experience, college was a breeze.
College teams represent the wealth of a university experience and can create fans from people who will never have an interest in professional sports.
The closest thing we have to that communal experience is college athletics.
Oriard, a former Notre Dame football captain, said that college athletes, who are unpaid, experience the problems of celebrities like Tom Brady and Paris Hilton without the monetary payoff.
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Not surprisingly, college major, interviewing skills, and experience ranked as the three most heavily considered characteristics in a candidate.
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Hamilton and Armstrong have also written an upcoming book, called Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality, where they expand on their dorm experience and describe how cuts in state funding of higher education have resulted in state schools relying on more tuition dollars.
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Starting in the 1960s, Brandt made a habit of signing players with no college-football experience.
All of this directly relates to higher education because such a formative experience in the year after graduating high school increases the value of college.
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