Examples of college education in the following topics:
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- Community colleges provide higher education services, granting certificates, associate's degrees, and offer continuing and adult education.
- In the United States, community colleges, sometimes called junior or technical colleges, are primarily two-year public institutions providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education.
- Many also offer continuing and adult education.
- The small and intimate neighborhood atmosphere also attracts students to begin or to continue their education at a junior college.
- In addition, many colleges offer and accept scholarships or educational grants.
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- The purpose of adult education on the college or university level is distinct.
- General continuing education is intended for adults beyond the traditional undergraduate college or university age.
- Instead, as the term suggests, it is assumed that the student already has a college education and is simply continuing it.
- Frequently, continuing education involves enrollment in college/university credit-granting courses, often by students enrolled part-time, and often offered through a division or school of continuing education of a college/university known sometimes as the university extension or extension school.
- Some programs that are attached to community colleges or universities might mandate that educators have a master's degree in adult education or another subject.
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- Although flawed, the top education school ranking system provides teachers with an important tool that can help them evaluate education schools.
- During the 1990s, three educational institutions in the United States were involved in a movement to boycott the U.S.News & World Report college rankings survey.
- This database would be web based and developed in conjunction with higher education organizations including the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Council of Independent Colleges.
- Some higher education experts, such as Kevin Carey of Education Sector, have argued that instead of focusing on the fundamental issues of how well colleges and universities educate their students and how well they prepare them to be successful after college, the magazine's rankings are almost entirely a function of three factors: fame, wealth, and exclusivity. " He suggests that there are more important characteristics parents and students should research to select colleges, such as how well students are learning and how likely students are to earn a degree.
- It is also important to note that an empowering education experience can also be found outside of a top education school.
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- Several different groups advocated for community colleges in the early twentieth century, including students and parents, educators, businesses, state universities, and government officials.
- Several different movements supported the creation of community colleges, including local community support of public and private two year institutions, the expansion of the public education system, increased professional standards for teachers, the vocational education movement, and an expanding demand for adult and community education.
- Numerous colleges and universities advocated for the development of junior colleges.
- This need for a class of workers to implement the decisions of the theoreticians demanded an educational delivery system other than the traditional four-year college or university.
- This national vocational movement was seen to give junior colleges a target population, but numerous students wanted more than a semiprofessional education; many maintained a desire to transfer.
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- There are currently many applications of Experiential Learning Theory within educational systems, especially on college campuses.
- Cooperative education (co-op) is a structured educational strategy integrating classroom studies with work-based learning related to a student's academic or career goals.
- College and university professional and career-technical programs such as engineering, media arts and business often require cooperative education courses for their degrees.
- Closely related to cooperative education are internships.
- Because of its connection to content acquisition and student development, service-learning is often linked to school and college courses.
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- The first mixed-gender institute of higher education in the United States was Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, which was established in 1833.
- Beginning in 1844, Hillsdale College became the second college to admit mixed-gender classes to four-year degree programs.
- According to scholars Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, and Elizabeth DeBra, "women's colleges were founded during the mid- and late-nineteenth century in response to a need for advanced education for women at a time when they were not admitted to most institutions of higher education."
- Notable examples include the prestigious Seven Sisters; within this association of colleges, Vassar College is now coeducational and Radcliffe College has merged with Harvard University.
- Other notable women's colleges that have become coeducational include Wheaton College in Massachusetts; Ohio Wesleyan Female College in Ohio; Skidmore College, Wells College, and Sarah Lawrence College in New York state; Goucher College in Maryland; and Connecticut College.
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- The Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act of 1862 provided for the establishment of public colleges for "liberal and practical education".
- This land, or the proceeds from its sale, was to be used toward establishing and funding educational institutions.
- Among the 70 colleges and universities which eventually evolved from the Morrill Acts are several of today's historically black colleges and universities.
- Though the 1890 Act granted cash instead of land, it granted colleges under that act the same legal standing as the 1862 Act colleges; hence, the term "land-grant college" properly applies to both groups.
- Indeed, the land-grant college system produced the agricultural scientists and industrial engineers who constituted the critical human resources of the managerial revolution in government and business of 1862–1917, laying the foundation of the world's preeminent educational infrastructure that supported the world's foremost technology-based economy.
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- Women have historically been disadvantaged in education, and learning has often been segregated along gender lines.
- Higher education has historically been regarded as a male domain.
- Even as women's education became more robust, it was considered to be distinct from men's education.
- By the mid-1800s, several women's colleges had been established, and many were coupled with men's universities as coordinate colleges.
- The most famous women's colleges in the United States were known as the Seven Sisters colleges and included Mount Holyoke College, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Smith College, Radcliffe College, Bryn Mawr College, and Barnard College.
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- The Morrill Land-Grant College Act was a U.S. statute signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862, that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges.
- For 20 years prior to the first introduction of the bill in 1857, a political movement, led by Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner of Illinois College, called for the creation of agriculture colleges.
- This land, or the proceeds from its sale, was to be used toward establishing and funding the educational institutions described above.
- The land-grant college system produced the agricultural scientists and industrial engineers who were critical to the managerial revolution in government and business of 1862–1917, and laid the foundation for a preeminent educational infrastructure that supported the world's foremost technology-based economy.
- Among the 70 colleges and universities that eventually evolved from the Morrill Acts are several of today's "Historically Black Colleges and Universities" (HBCUs).
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- Student achievement is highly correlated with family characteristics, including household income and parental educational attainment.
- Colleges tend to draw students from a relatively advantaged background because of their high costs and stiff academic requirements for enrollment.
- What's more, because colleges want to maintain their rankings in various college ranking systems (e.g., U.S.
- News & World Report), colleges favor students with higher standardized test scores and aggressively recruit them using "merit" scholarships.
- Examine the various factors within family background that give students an advantage in the educational realm