Download or read book A College Story written by Paul G Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging author Paul G. Wright celebrates the bonds of friendship and significant life lessons shared by a group of students on the campus of Brookewood College. In this coming-of-age story set in 1989, Mark Bishop and his friends navigate the controlled insanity of college life. Sleeping in a car with a bat. An impromptu midnight wedding. Trying to siphon gasoline Halloween night. A disappearing roommate. Broken hearts. Love in unexpected places. Discovering who you are. And in the process, Mark & Company learn more about life than anything offered in the classroom. They discover that, despite their best efforts, things do not stay the same. The freshman who walks into that first class will be very different from the senior who finally receives a diploma. One year can be a lifetime.
Download or read book The Community College Story written by George B. Vaughan and published by Amer. Assn. of Community Col. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Every Student Has a Story written by Karen Lenfestey and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second volume in series: This book is a compilation of essays about what it's like being the first person in your family to go to college. TRIO Students at Indiana University -Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana offer compelling narratives of personal experiences stemming from being a first-generation student in college. While no two situations are alike, many students report struggling with social and cultural adjustments; insecurities about information or processes; personal family situations and dynamics; and physical or mental health issues. Some of the struggles students chose to write about in this book include cultural differences, family tragedies, unrealistic expectations of college, family health issues, and insecurities about choosing a major. It is our hope that these personal narratives resonate with other first-generation college students and help affirm that they are not alone-but a part of a much larger community of first-generation students. It is also our hope that these essays increase dialogue on campuses regarding struggles outside of the classroom that many first-generation students face in their journeys toward graduation.
Download or read book College of One written by Sheilah Graham and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving story of how F. Scott Fitzgerald—washed up, alcoholic and ill—dedicated himself to devising a heartfelt course in literature for the woman he loved. In 1937, on the night of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall, Sheilah Graham met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party in Hollywood. Graham, a British-born journalist, broke off her engagement, and until Fitzgerald had a fatal heart attack in her apartment in 1940, the two writers lived the fervid, sometimes violent affair that is memorialized here with unprecedented intimacy. When they met, Fitzgerald’s fame had waned. He battled crippling alcoholism while writing screenplays to support his daughter and institutionalized wife. Graham’s star, however, was rising, to the point where she became Hollywood’s highest-paid, best-read gossip columnist. But if Fitzgerald had lived out his “crack-up” in public, Graham kept her demons secret—such as that she believed herself to be “a fascinating fake who pulled the wool over Hollywood’s eyes.’’ Most poignantly, she keenly felt her lack of education, and Fitzgerald rose to the occasion. He became her passionate tutor, guiding her through a curriculum of his own design: a college of one. Graham loved him the more for it, writing the book as a tribute. As she explained, “An unusual man’s ideas on what constituted an education had to be preserved. It is a new chapter to add to what is already known about an author who has been microscopically investigated in all the other areas of his life.”
Download or read book Transforming a College written by George Keller and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: Forty years ago, North Carolina's Elon College was struggling to attract students and remain solvent. Today Elon has emerged as one of America's most desirable colleges. How did this transformation happen? What can other colleges and universities learn from Elon's remarkable turnaround? Taking a new approach to the study of higher education, George Keller examines the decisions made by Elon's administration, trustees, and faculty to transform a school with a limited endowment into a top regional university. Using Elon as a case study, Keller sheds light on high-stakes competition among America's colleges and universities -- where losers face contraction or closure and winners gain money, talented students, and top faculty.
Download or read book The Story of Emerson College written by Michael Spence and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first biography of Emerson, he gives a vivid picture of how the college came to be such a special place. But this is not a dry history of an organisation: it is brought to life with vibrant descriptions of many people, including the colleges founders Francis and Elizabeth Edmunds and John Davy, but also students, teachers, cooks, gardeners, accountants, administrators, and many others. Spence studies the anthroposophic spiritual basis that formed the bedrock of the college.
Download or read book Don t Leave the Story in the Book written by Mary Hynes-Berry and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from 30 years of teaching and professional development experience, this book offers a roadmap for using children's literature to provide authentic learning. Featuring a storytellers voice, each chapter includes a case study about how a particular fiction or nonfiction work can be used in an early childhood classroom; a series of open-ended questions to help readers construct their own inquiry units; and a bibliography of childrens literature. This book provides a unique synthesis of ideas based on constructivist approaches to learning, including the importance of positive dispositions and learning communities, the nature of higher order thinking, and the relationship between methods such as guided inquiry in the sciences and balanced literacy.
Download or read book No Halls of Ivy written by Richard McCord and published by de La Salle Christian Brothers. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the College of Santa Fe is a BIG story. Its ancestry traces to 17th-century France, and its history is totally intertwined with the history of the state of New Mexico. Its original founders arrived in 1859, after months of traveling the Atlantic Ocean in wooden ships, then the young land of America by railroad, ox cart, horseback, and on foot. In 1874 it became the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature, and when New Mexico became the 47th of the United States in 1912, more than one-fifth of the drafters of the state's first constitution were among its graduates. As a full four-year post-secondary college, it opened its doors in 1947, on the site of a former U.S. Army hospital abandoned at the end of World War II. All the structures it occupied were "temporary" military buildings, and the first new hall erected there did not come until 1961. All through its existence it struggled financially, but year after year it held on, bringing college degrees to thousands of students, many of whom had not dreamed that such success was in their reach. The college had a life-and then it had a death. It did not attain old age, succumbing after 62 years, due to unrelenting economic pressures. But before it died it achieved academic distinction, as one of the best liberal-arts schools in the West. It also gained professional acclaim, with its graduates triumphing as performers, as artists, as achievers at the highest levels in their several fields. Now the story of its entire existence is told in this book.
Download or read book A Little Bit of Everything for a College Story written by Taylor Watts and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aria is starting a new school year at the University of Southern Mississippi, and she has hit it off with her new best friend, Presleigh, whose family has gone to USM for years. She also befriends another person. A boy named Kyle, who shares the same interests as her, but Presleigh isn't too thrilled that Aria has befriended a boy, claiming that they're nothing but trouble. Throughout most of her first semester, Aria has been reunited with old friends, has made new friends, and has convinced Presleigh to give Kyle a chance. And while things may seem good in both of the girls' lives, Aria may soon discover what kind of person Presleigh may be.
Download or read book The David Story A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel written by Robert Alter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.
Download or read book Hands Off A College Romance Story written by J.R. Simmons and published by MM Books. This book was released on with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between navigating her new college campus and worrying about her grades, Louise expects that she doesn't have time to date anyone her freshman year. That said, she can't seem to keep away from her attractive (and talented!) TA, who is one of the hottest young designers in the world despite his age. She seems to run into him everywhere, from sorority events to the library and everywhere in between. But unfortunately, given that he's her TA and in charge of some of her grades, she knows she can look but she can't touch! The pair just can't seem to keep their hands off one another, though, and towards the end of the semester, Mick asks Louise to join him in London for his next seminar. When a jilted sorority girl finds out about this, will it spell trouble for the pair? Or can the two successfully maintain their illicit affair?
Download or read book Write Out Loud Use the Story To College Method Write Great Application Essays and Get into Your Top Choice College written by Carol Barash and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell your story and connect with the college of your dreams for admission and financial aid "If everyone wrote essays like this, admissions officers would have to take every student's essay seriously." --Steve LeMenager, founder of Edvice Princeton and former director of admission at Princeton University "With patience, contagious confidence, and plenty of real-life examples, Carol illuminates a process that can help anyone discover and articulate those stories that will help them stand out in their own way, and in their own words." --Shelley Krause, college counselor, Rutgers Preparatory School, and curator of the College Lists Wiki "Because the college essay offers applicants their lone opportunity to demonstrate what truly matters to them, and to share the qualities that make them unique, the stakes could not be any higher. With meticulous detail, Barash delivers a foolproof plan for helping college applicants strike essay gold." --Chad Troutwine, cofounder and CEO of Veritas Prep To write out loud is to write and speak in a way that makes people pay attention. Write Out Loud teaches the Story To College program--with its proven storytelling-based approach, the Moments Method. This program has helped more than 8,000 students from high schools in the United States and around the world create effective, authentic application essays to win admission and financial aid at their top college choices. Write Out Loud enables anyone to masterfully integrate past experiences and future ambitions into successful application essays and interviews. The guided exercises help college essay writers get past the stress and confusion of writing about themselves. Write Out Loud reveals how to find unique topics for compelling essays, shows how to make the transition from a spoken story to a written essay, and provides examples of successful essays. The book also walks students through the Common Application, the online college application form used by more than 500 colleges and universities in the US and abroad. Inside, students will find: The 12 tools of the Moments Method Specific guidance for completing the Common Application Charts and checklists to organize essays and supplements Insight from admissions officers on what characterizes a successful college application essay With Write Out Loud, students build confidence to show their best selves in writing and to gain admission into the college or university they desire.
Download or read book A College Santa Clause written by Ralph Henry Barbour and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A College Santa Clause is a short story by Ralph Henry Barbour. Ralph Henry Barbour (Also wrote as Richard Stillman Powell)(November 13, 1870 – February 19, 1944) was an American novelist, who wrote popular works of sports fiction for boys.
Download or read book One Summer Is All We Have A College Romance Story written by J.R. Simmons and published by MM Books. This book was released on with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Walbroch is well known in college. As one of the star players of the school’s all-star football team, he has enjoyed the kind of popularity that only being an athlete could provide. With that came the influx of women who wished to sleep with him, causing him to become a bit of a playboy as a result. His fun times, however, are about to come to an end. He is graduating college now, and his father is insistent that he come home once his summer internship is finished so he can take over the family business. Not wanting his last time of freedom to go to waste, he ends up informing Brianna Meitner, his coworker, of the crush that he has had on her for a long time. Upon revealing that they would only have two months together before he would have to leave, Brianna gets understandably upset that he would wait so long. Still, deep inside, she has feelings for him too. She wants to date him, but fears that she will lose him as soon as she grows used to having him. Will they be able to overcome their fears in order to live up to their feelings?
Download or read book The Story of Bristol Baptist College written by Ruth Gouldbourne and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bristol Baptist College is the oldest continuing Baptist College in the world, and has a rich story of faith, service, challenge, and people. As the College moves into its fourth century, this book explores the story of the first three centuries.
Download or read book The Student Body written by John McNally and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of short fiction explores the complex world of college life, capturing the triumphs, tragedies, intrigues, awakenings, and more of academia in stories by such authors as Stephen King, Marly Swick, and Ron Carlson.
Download or read book The Big Year written by Meade Minnigerode and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
