413 results on '"Universities and colleges -- Personal narratives"'
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2. Categorical. Adrián Suar defended Incaa again and joined the claim for national universities: 'I don't like it...'
3. My parents attended Big Ten universities, but I chose a smaller, lesser-known one. They often chastised me for that choice
4. I was accepted into my dream colleges: Duke, Columbia, and Yale. I flipped a coin to decide which one was right for me
5. I'm a low-income high school student. I worry colleges reinstating the SAT requirement will ruin my admissions chances
6. My son is applying to 17 colleges. The stress is becoming too much for both of us
7. I encouraged my son to apply to only 3 colleges even though his friends were applying to 12 to 15. He still got into his dream school
8. The new challenge for colleges and universities / I go and come back
9. I applied to 23 colleges and wrote 50 essays. Here's what I learned
10. The Evolution of a DHI Distributor from Material Supplier to Subcontractor: I began my career in the door and hardware industry in 1979, having gone to work in the warehouse for a small distributor in my hometown as I completed my college education
11. Do ultra-selective colleges change lives? I say usually not, but this much richer author says yes
12. Feminism and the A-word: power and community in the university
13. 'I'm Having a Hard Time Making Friends at My Fancy University'
14. What Happened After My College Found Me Guilty of Sexual Misconduct
15. Remarks at new school university's sixty-seventh commencement ceremony
16. Surreal illusions, genuine realities: disenchantment and renewal in the academy - introduction
17. OPINION | I tried to switch coordinate colleges. Here's why:
18. 'Sista docta': performance as critique of the academy
19. Presidential perspective: publics, privates, budgets and culture: while they differ, public and private schools can learn from each other
20. Hello my name is Amy J. Fouty, CSFM: Athletic Turf Manager Michigan State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
21. Paradigm devolution: the twilight of traditional doctoral education
22. Superwoman gets a reality check
23. Old school days
24. Life and death and the American graduate student
25. My Biggest College Consideration? Israel. How My Judaism Helps To Identify the Schools I Want to Attend
26. Please don't make me leave college
27. Modern Beauty: My college valentine
28. What I learned from being an Art student at a Liberal Arts College
29. The Legitimate Reasons I'm Considering a Hysterectomy as a Junior in College
30. The path to professorship is long, rocky and confusing. Why? One university I worked at had no promotions criteria; at another they were so vague as to be meaningless; One university I worked at had no promotions criteria; at another they were so vague as to be meaningless
31. I chose not to go to university, and there's nothing wrong with that
32. How a Japanese elementary school prepared my child for college in the U.S
33. I'm an academic, and I feel underpaid and over-monitored; I receive more scrutiny and fewer opportunities than peers working in university administration. It doesn't feel fair
34. I just got a permanent academic job -- but I'm not celebrating; I'm happy to have found secure work, but now I'm inside the university system I can see clearly how exploitative it is
35. Should I Go to a College I've Been Admitted to as a Legacy?
36. Academia is built on exploitation. We must break this vicious circle; What did I find when I joined a university? Poor mental health, huge workloads, ego-driven professors and rampant plagiarism
37. College Life: After finals, I'm prepared for the next chapter
38. How I would save my father's Open University; A row over finances has rocked the OU, with student numbers dropping. Toby Young offers his plan for survival
39. 'I'm no monster, I'm trying to save this place' Under fire Open University head filmed near to tears in emotional address to staff who fear institution cuts
40. What do students want most? To be treated with respect; I was surprised to see students at my university ask for their lecturers to talk to them 'as though I'm a person'
41. I let sexual harassment slide because of my university's financial struggles; When cuts are threatening every department, it's hard to put your job on the line to stand up against discrimination
42. I, too, had a dream of college
43. Tel Aviv University's Egyptian Valedictorian: How My Speech Was Misrepresented by Egypt's Media
44. Dunces of confederacy: what should the University of Texas at Austin do with its statues celebrating the 'heroes' of the Old South? Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
45. If I tell my university about my disability, will I be seen as a weak link? When I emerged from a period of illness, colleagues no longer saw me as a serious researcher. Now I feel too scared to disclose my chronic condition; When I emerged from a period of illness, colleagues no longer saw me as a serious researcher. Now I feel too scared to disclose my chronic condition
46. HINTERLAND; My first sight of King's College chapel, on a childhood walk in Cambridge, taught me buildings could be art
47. 'I have become my daughter's stalker'; She has gone to university and, desperate for crumbs about her life, I track her on social media -- her every move, her friends, even her tutors
48. Girls Trip: the movie and my life; Of course, not every college friends' get-together is as filthily hilarious
49. There's some way to go before universities are truly parent-friendly; I was lucky in lots of respects when it came to my pregnancy and parental leave, yet I still found it a struggle. Academic parents need more support
50. Leaving for university: 'I did get homesick, but I didn't linger on it'; Leaving home is a wrench -- for child and parent. But Norah Lovelock and her mum used it as a catalyst to branch out
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