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The study focuses on how 4th year high school graduates cope up to college milieu. The students are freshman at present and mostly are those who find hard time acclimate to college life. Many students welcome the freedom to make their own decisions about what they want to do each day while in college. This affects their behavior as they involved themselves in college activities because "freedom" might be abused in terms of attending class, choosing friends, and others. There are many factors that freshman students must seriously take in consideration. Responsibilities would increase and right decisions must be seriously taken to avoid so much stress. Time management is what students mostly have conflict with because their perception is that …show more content…

As the average age of seventeenth-century freshmen was about fourteen, students were considered children, and the institution their parents. Character development (which really meant traditional Christian religious values) was instilled by strict rules and regulations and enforced by rigid discipline. The development of students’ character was substantially more important to early American colleges than the development of their intellect. Today, in loco parentis has been replaced with total student development – encouraging the development of a student’s social, environment, moral, leadership, and identity development.
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Student development theories generally fall into five broad categories; 1) psycho-social, 2) cognitive-structural, 3) person-environment, 4) humanistic, and 5) student development process models.

1. Psycho-social theories address development issues or tasks and events that …show more content…

Other chapter houses may be littered with garbage, old clothes, food smeared on the walls from a food fight – these members are equally (and negatively) influenced by their environment. The implicit values are destruction, an “it’s not my house” attitude, and basic disrespect. Many of these person-environment theories are used in career planning.

4. Humanistic existential theories share a common philosophy of the human condition. Humans are free, responsible, self-aware, potentially self-actualizing, and capable of being fully functioning. Development is internally motivated. These theorists believe the forces of growth are within the person and are facilitated by self-disclosure, followed by self-acceptance and self-awareness. These theories are used extensively in

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In his essay “The twenty-first-century Campus: Where Are the Men?” which appears in Sociology, Macionis describes the very common gender discrimination that favored men a century ago. Men’s colleges were to be seen in a great majority, however, steadily in a few years women began to increase. The gender gap was evident in all cultural categories at all class levels. Later on women started to become fairly a great majority at colleges and a gender imbalance was created. Women usually dominated discussions at college as there were few men in class.

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The foundation and development of a human being stems from the individual’s position within his/her life (for instance, his/her opinion, stance, about oneself in regards to his/her own expectations) and within his/her communities as a member of a household, a race or even as a gender. The key factor of this notion, take in consideration the vast knowledge a person can evaluate against their own understanding. A person emerge into the world as a blank slate that unconsciously and continuously devouring and weaving in stories told in voices that evokes correlation identification with an image created by a mother, father, brothers, sister, aunt, uncle, cousins, grandma, grandpa, and even nicknamed strangers into their root and skin. An open-minded

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These experiences included students eating, sleeping, studying, socializing, and worshipping together. Only privileged white male students were allowed to attend college during the seventeen century. Families sent their son’s to school to prepare them as Christian leaders, and clergy had high

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For a student to obtain success as they have come to know, they believe conformity is of the utmost importance. This then plays into the desire to fit in. In the case of The Citadel, because they must conform to certain personality changes, this sacrifice is often toxic. Developed in part due to the four-class system, first-year student who are referred to as “knobs” take the brute force of the ritualistic hazing. This group of students are often tortured relentlessly until they either quit, conform, or wait it out until the first year is over.

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As I look back on my journey to college, I faced many different problems and disadvantages even before taking my first steps on campus. In Linda Banks-Santilli’s “Guilt is one of the biggest struggles first-generation college students face” many first generation students view being the first one in the family as a major flaw before entering college (Banks-Santilli, 2015, Par. 4 &7). The lack of self-respect makes it difficult for students to achieve success without help or motivation. The students have to change their viewpoint about being the first to go to college in their family as a weakness and make it a strength to help motivate them to be better students.

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In Loco Parentis Restricting Student’s Autonomy The Latin phrase “in loco parentis,” which in Latin directly translates to “in the place of a parent,” refers to American universities controlling their student’s actions through discriminatory restraints (Lee 2011, 66). Universities and colleges during the 1960s were regulating student’s personal lives through administrative rules and would take disciplinary action, like expulsion, if broken. “From the mid-1800s through the late 1950s”, courts supported universities acting “in loco parentis” in respects to their students (Lee 2011, 66). Higher educational intuitions where not necessary acting how parents would; they where not honoring students for their academic achievements, but rather they

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Who I am is divided into two distinct sections: the shy, reliant child I was before Upward Bound and the confident, independent adult I have become. Upward Bound (UB) is a college preparatory program for low-income, first-generation college students, but its effects go much deeper than that. The workshops during the school year provide opportunities to meet college students in an informal setting where they can be honest about their college experiences. My first year I remember a girl telling me, “The first week I got to college I cried myself to sleep every night,” which was terrifying to hear. It made me dread the summer segment of UB, when I would stay on Ohio University’s campus in Athens for five weeks to take mock college classes.

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The students will be more organized since they are arranging their own schedules. They can learn how to disciplined themselves. The students could get their degree or finish his or her class faster.

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