- Feb 2019
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Education was for me, and for many of the rest of us, the great opportunity creator.
there should be more investment into public education for it liberates many and gives them purpose to move forward and have their dream(s) become reality
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City University of New York system propelled almost six times as many low-income students into the middle class and beyond as all eight Ivy League campuses, plus Duke, M.I.T., Stanford and Chicago, combined.
elite colleges not taking their responsibility seriously and help the students who attend the school
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On several dozen of campuses, remarkably, fewer students hail from the entire bottom half of the income distribution than from the WB_wombat_top 1 percent.
this shows that those in the bottom are welcomed and are ready to pursue college and succeed
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UTEP to teach an intensive two-week class on business and law. Pavia’s story is the classic story of the American dream.
UTEP helps students of all social standards
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“There are a lot of people who would not go to college at all, and would not get an education at all, if they had to go through some selective criteria,
don't want to be judged or think that they won't be able to succeed
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success stories are real, too, and they’re fairly common
why are they so similar
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Dropout rates are high, saddling students with debt but no degree. For-profit colleges perform the worst, and a significant number of public colleges also struggle.
why do profit colleges perform worst than those of non profit?
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Baruch graduates, he added, are making more money than their parents as soon as they start their first post-college job.
this is interesting, would it have to do with the demand of certain majors along with increase in salary or not
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These students entered college poor. They left on their way to the middle class and often the upper middle class.
both graduates and dropouts were able to climb the economic ladder
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many of them are performing much better than their new stereotype suggests.
they're helping students finish their education even with the obstacles the school(s) themselves are facing
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unprepared students, squeezed budgets and high dropout rates.
did they do nothing to try and better their education as well as helping them?
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West, California built an entire university system that was both accessible and excellent.
affordable and equal higher education opportunities
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planning.sfsu.edu planning.sfsu.edu
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Open a new, state-of-the-art Science building on the main campus that provides the high-quality teaching, research, laboratory and collaborative space that 21st century students, faculty and staff need. (Objective 1, 2, 4)
new and improved science building
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Resilience is the ability to recover and adapt quickly to difficulty or challenges and transform adversity into opportunity.
definition of resilience through socio-culture and sustainable environmental and economic systems
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commitment to equity
academic access, distribution of resources as well as helping students get through obstacles so they could succeed
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Coordinate tutoring, academic advising and career advising in a new University Academic Center. (Objective 1) Implement and prioritize a Course Availability Plan that will ensure student access to the curriculum, with the aim of increasing six-year graduation rates by 15 percent by 2025. (Objective 1)
more coordination, but also helping with course priority to help increase graduation rates
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Establish a new University Academic Center that unites tutoring, academic advising and career advising and creates new writing and math centers. (Objective 1)
combining all centers that provide help into one along with creating two more
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Courage Initiatives
Goals both short and somewhat long: missions
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Courage Objectives
what we look to creating
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Courage fortifies our efforts to question conventional wisdom and explore controversial issues in the name of deeper understanding; it energizes our commitment to academic freedom
what courage means and what it is
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Courage Aspirations
things that we would stand up for and why
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new strategic plan is anchored by five core University values: Courage, Life of the Mind, Equity, Community and Resilience.
new plan to learn more about social justice and core values along with strengthening the community that we take part in.
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The charge to the planning committee identified seven themes: Building the San Francisco State Identity, Maximizing Student Success, the Academic Master Plan, the Physical Master Plan, Advancing Campus & Community Climate, Elevating Institutional Support, and Emerging Issues. Those themes served as points of entry to engage the campus and community, and subcommittees
the seven parts of the plan to not only build up the identity of SFSU but as well as bringing the community and those on campus together
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senate.sfsu.edu senate.sfsu.edu
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prepares its students to become productive, ethical, active citizens with a global perspective.
allows them to express themselves politically and spiritually and more.
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students to engage in open-minded inquiry and reflection.
learn and become more aware of situations as well as learning more about themselves (who they are and their ancestors) along with respecting others
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mail.harvardmagazine.com mail.harvardmagazine.com
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students reported a 31-percentage-point gain in confidence
they weren't afraid to ask questions in class or walk up to the professor and talk to them.
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Georgetown Scholars Program
increase grants and reduce loans for low in come students
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seeking assistance is a habit of excellence, not a sign of weakness.”
Want to change their mindset that asking for help and not being who they really are by becoming confident in themselves and their abilities.
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Once applicants are accepted, he and his staff review “the highest [financial] need students who went to high schools with lesser course offerings” to determine whom to invite to FSY.
do they educationally discriminate?
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learning to “deal with people from a different socioeconomic background” and “how to have conversations in suites” as a freshman.
how to try and blend in
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“It’s very tempting for them to ‘present’ themselves and not be honest” about their backgrounds as they try to adapt to their new circumstances
new students are trying to fit into the crowd by not being honest about who they really are which is emotionally and mentally draining having them question their identity.
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“looking forward to making it a place I could see myself in.”
education not being a problem to Lopez but the challenge of feeling comfortable and having made the right choice.
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senior year
the education gap grew to 57% from the 20% that are continuing gen
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diversified their student bodies by race, gender, ethnicity, and nationality since the 1960s,
brought something new to Princeton by bringing diversity as well as being a first gen low-income student
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didn’t make me feel less self-conscious and unschooled in the company of classmates
didn't let education affect her
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