Tag: high school
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The Huffington Post covers Plagiarism
I have spoken about my experiences as an adjunct professor regarding plagiarism. Recently, the Huffington Post wrote a post – More Students Misunderstand The Fundamentals Of Plagiarism. Colleges and Professors need to know that their students can form their own opinions and plagiarism is a dissolution of any original thought. Hopefully, with the new school…
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Commmunity Colleges are the Foundation for Success
http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&station=wabc§ion=&mediaId=7478227&cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&site= This was what Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said when she delivered the commencement address at Hostos Community College yesterday. In addition to her collegiate duties, she also had a Bronx Housing Project, Bronxdale Houses renamed after her and attended a ceremony at her high school. As a former New York City Project Kid…
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College students and Credit Cards
When I first arrived on the college campus as a student back in the last century, I got my first credit card before I was able to vote. I was with a fellow student (oh, the peer pressure) questioned the representative asking how I could of possibility qualified when I didn’t reach my 18th birthday…