Chapter 2 Making connections question 3

Chapter 2 discussed a lot of current trends on college campus, there is one important one that was not mentioned: the cost. There is no denying that the price of college is rapidly increasing each year. Private schools are $60,000 or greater for one year. When this happens for four years that is $240,000 a college student needs o pay. That is more than a lot of houses. Public schools are the same way, yes they are cheaper at around $20,000 a year but they are increasing in price also. This current trend is making college affordable for more and more people, resulting in more people not being able to get well paying jobs in the future.
Middle class families can sometimes send their kid to college, but a lot of times it is a matter of how much financial aid or scholarships the student gets. I think this current trend is unfair and many politician are discussing this problem and formulating ideas to make college cheaper and more affordable,

Chapter 2 Making Connections 1

Life is not always straight forward, there is no one way to go. Instead it is a maze of paths that go in every direction and have different signs telling one which way is out. This is life, there will be time is everyone's life where one receives mixed messages, these messages coming from any source imaginable. As one can imagine it can be tough to sort out which of these messages are bad and which ones are good. The first mixed message I can think of on campus is the Tobacco policy. There are signs on every door on campus saying that individuals can't smoke 25 feet of closer to the buildings. Then there are maps on campus saying that individuals can only smoke in the parking lots. So which one is it? I see faculty members who follow the rules and smoke in the parking lots and then I see the students who smoke where ever they please. So these two paths are definitely very tangled and confusing now and are sending these mixed messages. It would be interesting to talk to University Police or another faculty member on the issue.

Chapter 2: Earning and Learning: Are Students Working Too Much?

In this article the author talks about how the 1990's generation is over scheduled. On top of being a full time high school or college student, they are also working a lot of hours. This leads them to not have much free time on their hands to to other things and not much time to get their school work done. The article states that the students need to check their planner to see if they can fit in an activity. Sound familiar? Yeah it sounds like me on a daily basis. If the 90's teenagers were over scheduled than what are we? Double over scheduled? I currently don't have a job but there is a reason for that. Being a full time student and having a job is very difficult and time consuming especially freshman year. Next year I think I will try to find an on campus job and work a few hours a week but nothing crazy. Even still I need to keep a planner on my phone to remind when my classes and clubs are. It us way to much to remember without some help. However I see the appeal in having a job, students want some extra spending money or maybe the money is to help pay for the costs of college or a  car. Either way I feel like this generation is way more over scheduled than the 1990's students and students aren't going to get less busy anytime soon.

Chapter 2. Universities Seeing Gender Gap Enrollments

This article by Erin Mallants Rodriguez talks about the growing issue of more women attending college than men. The thing is, the gap isn't small either, its a very large gender gap. Recent polls have shown this. At Barry university only 28 percent  of the student body is male. Also at the University of Miami males made up 43 percent. This is the trend everywhere in the country. Part of the reason this is happening because women tend to be more well informed and are tend to be better performing students.
I answered question 2. Since men tend to be a growing minority in colleges I believe that colleges should create incentives to help draw in male students. First, I think colleges should market to men more to show them what college has to offer and why it can be beneficial instead of heading right into the work force. Also colleges could give scholarships and grants to male students that go to college as an extra incentive.