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LEAS 833 Higher Education in America Weeks 12 & 13 Student Services Student Services •Student Services •Recruitment •Non-Traditional Students •Admissions •Financial Aid •Retention Source: Stateuniversity.com • Development of the "whole student" or a student's intellectual capacity and achievement, emotional make-up, physical condition, social relationships, vocational aptitudes and skills, moral and religious values, economic resources, and aesthetic appreciations. • Basic tenets of helping students reach their full potential and attending to them as a human beings–not simply those in need of intellectual training. • Today, the majority of undergraduates are more than twenty-one years old. â–ª More than 40 percent are enrolled part-time. â–ª Nearly 27 percent are people of color. â–ª About 65 percent of high school graduates attend college, although far fewer graduate. â–ª Many students lack adequate preparation for college-level courses. • Create the conditions that enhance student learning and development, encourage student commitment to educational purposeful activities in and out of the classroom.
Student Services Source: Stateuniversity.com â–ª Academic support services â–ª Academic advising â–ª Recruitment, admissions, and retention â–ª Alcohol & drug education programs, and wellness programs. â–ª Career services â–ª Campus ministries â–ª Community service â–ª Service learning â–ª Counseling â–ª Financial aid â–ª Food services â–ª Fraternities and sororities â–ª Health centers â–ª Housing and residence life â–ª Multicultural programs & Student Activities â–ª Orientation â–ª Recreational sports â–ª Student discipline Student Services The division of student affairs provides services to students and supports the educational mission of the institution: Source: Stateuniversity.com • Recruitment practices can be found in the mass expansion of higher education emerging directly from the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 and the baby boom. • The rise in applications during the 1960s and early 1970s led many colleges to increase enrollments and concurrently expand capacity. • The abundance of college enrollees reversed during the 1980s leaving colleges with increased capacity and a declining applicant pool. • The prospects of declining enrollments prompted colleges and universities to adopt marketing practices used in business that centered on product, price, place, and promotion.
Recruitment Source: Stateuniversity.com • College recruiting practices rely on market principles for success and matured into providing more information and increased attention to the prospective student. • The recruitment funnel, where a high number of prospective students from numerous entry points narrows & moves to ultimately a smaller number of enrolled students, is at the foundation of the college-recruiting theory. • Historical and demographic influences have allowed admission and recruitment practices to evolve and develop over the past 400 years of American higher education. Recruitment Source: Stateuniversity.com • The most effective recruiting practices and strategies are visits to high schools in primary markets by a member of the admissions office, interaction on the Internet, hosting campus visits with prospective students, and offering merit-based scholarships are considered strong inducements in choosing a college. • The presence of friendly, accessible faculty members, and attitude of administrative officials during the campus visit are highly valued. • Secondary and less effective college recruitment practices are: â–ª College fairs and nights â–ª Using alumni to recruit â–ª Hosting off-campus meetings/social events for high school counselors â–ª multimedia presentations â–ª Billboard, print, or broadcast advertising â–ª School promotional videos Recruitment Source: Stateuniversity.com • Use of direct mail: â–ª Many colleges use mailing lists that contain information compiled by national agencies. â–ª Names are purchased that fit criteria selected by the college, such as geographical location and size of the college. • Many private four-year colleges send eight or more written communications to prospective students. • Telephone recruitment calls made by students, admissions staff, faculty members, and alumni are effective. â–ª Institutions are increasingly using commercial vendors for prospect identification. • The use of technology to market institutions and counsel students adds new dimensions to college recruitment practices. â–ª The Internet, World Wide Web, and CD-ROMs have helped in recruiting students while reducing costs for their institutions. â–ª The Internet affords a prospective student unlimited and uncontrolled access to formal and informal information about any institution.
Recruitment Non-Traditional Students Source: insidehighered.com • Non-traditional students are those students that are older (25+) and had interrupted their formal education either before or after finishing secondary school. â–ª In the early twenty-first century, non-traditional students have become the new majority, and traditional students the exception. â–ª non-traditional enrollments exceed over 8 million, or nearly 52 percent of all students in higher education. â–ª non-traditional learners often lead complex lives with many responsibilities that compete with their educational goals. ➢ They tend to be employed full-time or for extensive part-time periods. ➢ Many are married with demanding family responsibilities and community involvements. ➢ Demands on their time often limit them to part-time enrollment and longer times to complete degree and certificate sequences.
Non-Traditional Students Source: insidehighered.com • The term traditional students describes the characteristics of most students attending colleges and universities. These included: â–ª Age between the late teens and early twenties â–ª Immediate entry to higher education following high school â–ª Full-time attendance and completion of a four year degree in four to five years â–ª Residence at the college or in its vicinity â–ª Primary financial dependence on family sources â–ª Generally were neither married nor responsible for other family members. â–ª non-traditional students are likely to take longer to complete their degrees than traditional students and to have higher attrition in their first year.
Non-Traditional Students Source: insidehighered.com • Those who continue to the second year have persistence rates closer to traditional students. • There has been an effort to remove barriers for non-traditional students' participation. â–ª Rigidity in attendance requirements. â–ª Growth of asynchronous distance-learning offerings through electronic technology. â–ª More flexible access to other important services. â–ª Better access and guidance to financial aid. â–ª Provide reentry or orientation workshops to reduce anxiety. • Reorient the learning transaction to focus on learners. â–ª Instructors assume roles as facilitators or mentors to work with learners to design individualized curricula.
Non-Traditional Students Source: insidehighered.com • Non-traditional students are more likely to reside in urban or suburban areas, rather than rural areas. • The ethnicity of non-traditional students does not parallel that of the national population. â–ª Asian and non-Hispanic white students enroll at a higher rate than their proportion of the general population â–ª African Americans and Hispanics participate at a lower rate. • Immigrants make up an increasing number of non-traditional participants in higher education â–ª Needs ranging from English as a second language, remedial education, and to revalidate a high-level professional qualification for certification or licensure in the US. • Non-traditional students between thirty-five and fifty years of age often seek to improve their career prospects with expanded qualifications. • Non-traditional students in their later years are more likely to pursue personal enrichment goals, and even to seek degree credentials for their own sake.
Non-Traditional Students Source: insidehighered.com • Non-traditional students are provided continuing academic and personal support. • Greater recognition of the value of ongoing counseling and developmental monitoring • Non-traditional support can include career counseling and exit seminars to deal with the anxiety of a new transition. • Need a variety of nonacademic services throughout the program: â–ª Food or refreshment services and lounge spaces at late afternoon or evening times. â–ª Convenient parking and campus security. â–ª Child care for young children. â–ª Personal counseling to assist with stress or unanticipated emergencies. Admissions Source: insidehighered.com • The admissions process is based on the submission of written applications and supporting credentials. • Now colleges began offering online applications, available through institutions' websites or through commercial third parties. • Most institutions require an application fee, although students with severe financial hardships sometimes obtain fee waivers with the support of their guidance counselors. • Applications usually require submission of an official high school transcript, an official college transcript if the student has completed previous college coursework, a guidance counselor recommendation, teacher recommendations, and official results from either the SAT or the ACT Assessment. • In addition, many applications require one or more essays, and some colleges require interviews with admissions staff, alumni, or current students. • Community colleges have an open-access policy and admit any applicant with a high school diploma or its equivalent.
Admissions Source: insidehighered.com • The following are among colleges' most common application options: â–ª Regular decision: Deadlines for submitting applications and supporting credentials for fall semester admission typically fall between December and March. Notify students notify them of their enrollment decisions by May 1st. â–ª Rolling admissions: Applications are reviewed and evaluated as they are received. These institutions notify students of their admissions status as decisions are made. â–ª Early action: Fall application deadline for students who wish to receive notification of their admissions status in December or January. â–ª Early decision: Students agree to attend the institution if offered admission.
In addition, they must withdraw their applications from all other institutions if admitted. • In all cases, applying for early for financial aid is a must. Financial Aid Source: Stateuniversity.com • Goal of financial aid has been to provide access to higher education regardless of a student's ability to pay. • Over half of all undergraduate students, and over 75 percent of those who attend full- time receive financial aid to help pay their tuition. • Most of this aid, which adds up to almost billion a year, comes from federal or state governments or directly from the institutions. • "Ability to pay" and "financial need" are not precise concepts, but an elaborate system has developed to direct funds toward those who need them most. • It may be in the form of grants (which do not have to be repaid), loans, or work. • Two broad categories of financial aid: â–ª Financial aid is based on financial need (Need Based). â–ª Financial aid is awarded on the basis of academic qualifications, athletic ability, or other personal characteristics (Merit Based).
Financial Aid Source: Stateuniversity.com • The federal government provides about three-quarters of its billion of student aid in the form of loans. Half of this amount is in the form of subsidized loans to students. â–ª Pell Grant - The largest federal grant aid program is the main source of aid targeted directly at the most economically disadvantaged students. â–ª Stafford Loans - non-need-based loans provide approximately 40 percent of federal education unsubsidized student loans. Loans are available without regard to financial need, and interest accrues on them during the college years. The federal government also provides non-need-based loans to parents of undergraduate students. â–ª Work-Study Program - Federal government provides about
billion in work-study aid, which subsidizes student employment during the academic year. â–ª Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits - are nonrefundable tax credits that reduce the federal income taxes of students or their parents who are paying tuition Financial Aid Source: Stateuniversity.com • States also have grant programs (Need-Based & Merit-Based) to assist students in covering their college costs.State grant aid grew much more rapidly than federal grant aid during the 1990s. â–ª Georgia has set a national example with its merit-based program and many states appear to be following suit. â–ª More than 80 percent of state aid is dedicated to undergraduate need- based programs. • Institutional financial aid provided by institutions grew very rapidly in the 1990s, particularly in private non-profit colleges and universities, but also in the public sector. â–ª By 2000, about 20 percent of total student aid and almost half of total grant aid came from institutions. â–ª Institutional financial is now frequently seen as serving multiple purposes. ➢ To make college affordable for more students, ➢ To use aid dollars to attract particular types of students Retention Source: Stateuniversity.com • Retaining a student is fundamental to the ability of an institution to carry out its mission. â–ª A high rate of attrition (the opposite of retention) is not only a fiscal problem for schools, but a symbolic failure of an institution to achieve its purpose. • There are three types of student retention. â–ª Retained Student, Normal progression, a stayer, occurs when a student enrolls each semester until graduation, studies full-time, and graduates in about four years. â–ª Dropout, or leaver, is a student who enters college but leaves before graduating and never returns to that or any other school. â–ª Transfers, students who begin studies at one institution and then transfer to another. ➢ From the student's perspective, transferring is normal progress.
From the perspective of the institution where the student first enrolled, the student has dropped out. • Definition of retention or attrition needs to consider the goals of the student upon entry. Retention Source: Stateuniversity.com • Definition of retention needs to consider the goals of the student upon entry: • A student might enter a college with the intention of taking three accounting courses to upgrade his or her status at work, yet the institution would likely count the student as a dropout. • Institutions that enroll large numbers of part-time students have to be very careful in understanding whether a low graduation rate represents institutional failure or institutional success. • Students who are not seeking a degree and leave school before graduation should not be counted as dropouts. • In considering any definition, it is important to identify if the definition is from the perspective of the individual student, the institution, or from the economic or labor force perspective.
Looking Ahead Due This Week (Week 12) • Read Assigned Web Site Articles • Participate in Discussion Forum 6 (post due Sunday) Due Next Week (Week 13) • Read Assigned Web Site Articles • Participate in Discussion Forum 6 (peer responses due Sunday) Power in the Criminal Justice System The branches of the criminal justice system work together to maintain a civil society. Enforcing laws, charging and trying offenders, and dictating punishment must coexist to safeguard the public. Without any one of them, the system would crumble. But if you were to look at each branch of the criminal justice system individually, which one would hold the greatest power? For this Discussion, you share your perspective on power in the criminal justice system.
Who has the most power in the criminal justice system—police, prosecutor, or magistrate? Using the resources found under the Learning Resources for this week, provide two examples to support your response. Should the power held by the role you identified be shifted to another role? Explain why or why not. THIS IS A DISCUSSION QUESTION FOR ALL STUDENTS FROM THE PROFESSOR CAN YOU PLEASE REPLY TO ALL QUESTIONS ASK IN 1 TO 2 PARAGHS…. THANKS
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Discussion on Power in the Criminal Justice SystemIn analyzing the different branches of the criminal justice system, it is essential to recognize their interdependent roles: police, prosecutors, and magistrates, each possessing unique powers and responsibilities that contribute to maintaining public order and justice. However, I contend that the prosecutor holds the most substantial power in the criminal justice system.
The prosecutor's primary power lies in discretion—the authority to decide whether to file charges, what charges to bring, and whether to offer plea deals. This decision-making power significantly influences the course of justice for individuals accused of crimes. For instance, if a prosecutor decides not to pursue charges after an arrest by the police, the accused may not face prosecution at all, regardless of the evidence gathered (Alschuler, 1976). Conversely, a prosecutor's adept utilization of this discretion can lead to severe consequences, such as overly punitive sentences resulting from aggressive plea bargaining strategies.
Moreover, prosecutors hold sway in the courtroom, guiding proceedings and advocating for victims' rights, thus shaping the narrative presented to the magistrate or jury (Lynch & Kearns, 2001). This role can obscure the influence of police in initially gathering evidence, placing the defendant's fate largely in the prosecutor's hands and underscoring the need for checks on prosecutorial power to maintain balance in the system (Heins, 2011).
While police are crucial in enforcing laws and gathering evidence, their power is inherently limited to the initial investigative phase of a case. Without the prosecutor's decision to charge, police work may lead to no judicial consequence at all. Furthermore, magistrates serve primarily as arbiters of law and ensure due process during trials, but they typically have less authority to set legal precedent or reject cases based on prosecutorial charges unless it pertains to legal rights violations (Davis, 1998).
Given the immense power wielded by prosecutors, it may be prudent to consider whether some of this power should be distributed to promote fairness and balance. As it currently stands, the lack of oversight or accountability mechanisms can lead to prosecutorial misconduct. It is essential to implement systems that encourage transparency and checks on the exercise of power within prosecution, such as independent review boards or guidelines on fair prosecution practices (Kennedy, 2017).
In conclusion, while each branch of the criminal justice system plays a vital role in enforcing laws and administering justice, the prosecutor's discretionary power places them in a position of significant authority over the outcome of criminal cases. This reality raises important questions about how to create a more equitable system that safeguards against potential abuses of power.
References
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2. Davis, A. J. (1998). Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor. Oxford University Press.
3. Heins, M. (2011). The Fatal Flaw in The American Prosecutorial System. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com
4. Kennedy, J. (2017). Overseeing Prosecutors: The Challenges of Accountability. The Harvard Law Review, 130(5), 2091-2110. doi:10.2307/44765102
5. Lynch, M. L., & Kearns, M. (2001). The Transformation of the Prosecutor: The New Politics of Crime and Justice. Annual Review of Sociology, 27, 95-114. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.95
6. Rusch, N. (2019). Balancing Power in the Criminal Justice System: Towards a Fair Approach to Prosecution. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 109(4), 613-656. Retrieved from https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu
7. Stuntz, W. J. (2004). The Uneasy Case for the Criminal Justice System. Harvard Law Review, 117, 1-11. doi:10.2307/3493155
8. Tonry, M. (1996). Sentencing Matters. The Yale Law Review, 105(6), 1251-1267. doi:10.2307/797908
9. Walker, S. P. (2019). The Fourth Branch of the Government: The Prosecutor and Potential Reforms. The American Criminal Law Review, 56(4), 1499-1531. Retrieved from https://www.aclawreview.org
10. Zedlewski, E. (2014). The Role of the Prosecutor in the U.S. Criminal Justice System. Criminal Justice Research Paper Series, 2014-5. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/prosecutors-criminal-justice.pdf
By addressing the dynamics of power within the criminal justice system and seeking accountability within prosecution, we can enhance the integrity of the justice system as a whole.