College Student

I started to look for research conducted on what the college student is today, and found hundreds of surveys that have been published. These surveys ask students all different questions ranging from their participation in student activities to what they preferred to eat in the cafeteria. At first I couldn’t decide how to describe the college student today because it was overwhelming on the information that can be found on the internet. After looking at some of the results, I decided that there is no right answer to describe the typical college student. Students today can range from any age, race, sexuality, religion, nationality, etc. Students that are in college can be involved with many different activities among the campus and some do not. Some students are athletes and some are involved in theater. The college student today does not have any typical stereotype. However, I think that certain campus in particular have typical stereotypical students, but I also believe that at every campus there are students that are completely opposite of the stereotype for that campus. The following link is research done on the NASPA website of a survey that was asked of students from 2009 and 2008.

http://www.naspa.org/divctr/research/profile/results.cfm

When I found this article about the population of college students is growing larger and larger. I thought it was interesting to read all the different opinions from higher education professionals about who should come to college. There are different views on if there is too many students being allowed to go to college.

http://0-chronicle.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/article/Are-Too-Many-Students-Going/49039/

The last article that I came across was published in the Chronicle in June of 2009. It is claiming that students are more globally aware and less concerned about material wealth than the past couple of years. I am a student that would fall in this age category. One of the claims is that there is a high percentage of students that a current passport and have traveled abroad multiple times. I personally have been out of the country almost 11 times to several countries around the world. I have done one study abroad in Switzerland and Austria. I have taken my experience as a student within another country. I think that this is interesting thought about the population of the college student today.

http://0-chronicle.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/article/Todays-Students-Are-More-G/47701

I thought I added the links, but they are not showing up. I will bring the URL to class for my articles. Sorry, I'm new to this.