Yesterday's big news, of course, was the announcement of "The Coalition," the curiously-named group of about 80 colleges and universities making for very strange bedfellows. I wrote a little bit about it here.
Today I came across a little data set that contained information about Pell graduation rates and non-Pell graduation rates, and I thought it an interesting opportunity to look at it in light of yesterday's news. So, over my lunch hour, I did (yes, this software is really that easy to use. You should try it out.)
It's presented here in Tableau Story Points. Just use the gray boxes across the top to look at the different views of the data. Most of it should be self-explanatory, but if not, leave a comment and I'll reply to it.
FYI, there were several schools from "The Coalition" who did not supply Pell Grant Grad Rate data. In alpha order, they are:
Columbia (NY)
Hamilton (NY)
Harvard (MA)
Rutgers (NJ)
And you can ask them why they didn't. I would never speculate about such things. (Olin College of Engineering did not provide data claiming their sample size was too small.)
September 2015 - Hallo sahabat The secret, Pada Artikel yang anda baca kali ini dengan judul September 2015, kami telah mempersiapkan artikel ini dengan baik untuk anda baca dan ambil informasi didalamnya. mudah-mudahan isi postingan yang kami tulis ini dapat anda pahami. baiklah, selamat membaca.
Yesterday's big news, of course, was the announcement of "The Coalition," the curiously-named group of about 80 colleges and universities making for very strange bedfellows. I wrote a little bit about it here.
Today I came across a little data set that contained information about Pell graduation rates and non-Pell graduation rates, and I thought it an interesting opportunity to look at it in light of yesterday's news. So, over my lunch hour, I did (yes, this software is really that easy to use. You should try it out.)
It's presented here in Tableau Story Points. Just use the gray boxes across the top to look at the different views of the data. Most of it should be self-explanatory, but if not, leave a comment and I'll reply to it.
FYI, there were several schools from "The Coalition" who did not supply Pell Grant Grad Rate data. In alpha order, they are:
Columbia (NY)
Hamilton (NY)
Harvard (MA)
Rutgers (NJ)
And you can ask them why they didn't. I would never speculate about such things. (Olin College of Engineering did not provide data claiming their sample size was too small.)
Maybe you're too young to remember the Ronald Reagan presidency, but one of the things I remember most is the "Peacekeeper Missile." People were incensed by what they believed to be political doublespeak worthy of the book 1984. Missiles were objects of destruction, not something you associated with peace. Change the language, change the discussion.
So today, this happened. In what Inside Higher Ed is calling "An Admissions Revolution," eighty of the country's top colleges have formed a "Coalition," (a nice political sounding word: I mean, they form coalitions in Canada, so it must be nice, right?) to create a new application as well as a new portfolio system for students, who can start as early as the 9th grade, to assemble documents and other resources, not unlike my suggestion about Google managing the application process. The goal, ostensibly, is to get more low-income and first generation students interested and ready to go to college, and to apply to these mostly-selective institutions.
This sounds great, right? Right? You'd think so.
Of course, if you know anything about college admissions, your first question might be this: Today, one day after the announcement, which group is probably more aware of The Coalition? A) first generation, low-income, students of color from under-resourced high schools, or B) white students of wealthier, college-educated families who already being planning for college at--or well before--the 9th grade. I'll give you a moment.
In an industry already obsessed with prestige, this sounds like a club that won't take just anyone as a member, unlike the Common App, which has recently--God help us all--begun to allow colleges to determine for themselves what admissions criteria are important.
The collective gasp from the super selective members of Common App sounded like a Rockefeller in the presence of someone who extended the wrong pinkie finger when drinking tea. "We just can't have these, these, Commoners, in the Common App," they decided without discerning a hint of irony, and they started their own country club, which of course, will do the requisite charity work one expects of any decent country club.
The standards for membership are fairly arbitrary: A 70% graduation rate for all members; for privates, a pledge to meet "demonstrated need," (a patently ridiculous term both in definition and in the way it's practiced) and for publics, "affordable tuition for and need-based aid for in-state students."
Does that seem backwards to you? Shouldn't public institutions, which I believe were generally founded by the public for the public, be held to a higher standard of serving, you know, the public they're supposed to serve? And of course, remember my frequent rant that high graduation rates are an input, not an output. Even as blunt an instrument as US News and World report recognizes that if you enroll more Pell grant recipients, your graduation rate will drop.
Which brings me to the last point. These institutions are, for the most part, selected from the institutions that a) have the most resources, b) charge the most, and c) enroll the fewest Pell grant kids. Is this new application, which fragments the process even further, and clearly--not even possibly, but clearly--favors wealthier kids really the answer?
Or is the name--The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success--just a political ploy from institutions that don't really seem to know much about access in the first place? A new take on the Peacekeeper Missile? An homage to 1984?
Look at this, showing about 1700 four-year private and public institutions, each as a bubble. The Coalition institutions are in red, everyone else in gray. Colleges to the right have higher median SAT scores in the freshman class (another proxy for wealth, of course); colleges lower on the chart have fewer Pell grant kids as a percentage of all freshmen. Larger dots are wealthier. Hover over any dot for details about that college.
The the two-bar chart on the top shows Pell Grant enrollment.
There is one filter, to allow you to look at all institutions, just public, or just private. Go ahead, click. See if it makes much difference. And remember:
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
September 2015 - Hallo sahabat The secret, Pada Artikel yang anda baca kali ini dengan judul September 2015, kami telah mempersiapkan artikel ini dengan baik untuk anda baca dan ambil informasi didalamnya. mudah-mudahan isi postingan yang kami tulis ini dapat anda pahami. baiklah, selamat membaca.
Maybe you're too young to remember the Ronald Reagan presidency, but one of the things I remember most is the "Peacekeeper Missile." People were incensed by what they believed to be political doublespeak worthy of the book 1984. Missiles were objects of destruction, not something you associated with peace. Change the language, change the discussion.
So today, this happened. In what Inside Higher Ed is calling "An Admissions Revolution," eighty of the country's top colleges have formed a "Coalition," (a nice political sounding word: I mean, they form coalitions in Canada, so it must be nice, right?) to create a new application as well as a new portfolio system for students, who can start as early as the 9th grade, to assemble documents and other resources, not unlike my suggestion about Google managing the application process. The goal, ostensibly, is to get more low-income and first generation students interested and ready to go to college, and to apply to these mostly-selective institutions.
This sounds great, right? Right? You'd think so.
Of course, if you know anything about college admissions, your first question might be this: Today, one day after the announcement, which group is probably more aware of The Coalition? A) first generation, low-income, students of color from under-resourced high schools, or B) white students of wealthier, college-educated families who already being planning for college at--or well before--the 9th grade. I'll give you a moment.
In an industry already obsessed with prestige, this sounds like a club that won't take just anyone as a member, unlike the Common App, which has recently--God help us all--begun to allow colleges to determine for themselves what admissions criteria are important.
The collective gasp from the super selective members of Common App sounded like a Rockefeller in the presence of someone who extended the wrong pinkie finger when drinking tea. "We just can't have these, these, Commoners, in the Common App," they decided without discerning a hint of irony, and they started their own country club, which of course, will do the requisite charity work one expects of any decent country club.
The standards for membership are fairly arbitrary: A 70% graduation rate for all members; for privates, a pledge to meet "demonstrated need," (a patently ridiculous term both in definition and in the way it's practiced) and for publics, "affordable tuition for and need-based aid for in-state students."
Does that seem backwards to you? Shouldn't public institutions, which I believe were generally founded by the public for the public, be held to a higher standard of serving, you know, the public they're supposed to serve? And of course, remember my frequent rant that high graduation rates are an input, not an output. Even as blunt an instrument as US News and World report recognizes that if you enroll more Pell grant recipients, your graduation rate will drop.
Which brings me to the last point. These institutions are, for the most part, selected from the institutions that a) have the most resources, b) charge the most, and c) enroll the fewest Pell grant kids. Is this new application, which fragments the process even further, and clearly--not even possibly, but clearly--favors wealthier kids really the answer?
Or is the name--The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success--just a political ploy from institutions that don't really seem to know much about access in the first place? A new take on the Peacekeeper Missile? An homage to 1984?
Look at this, showing about 1700 four-year private and public institutions, each as a bubble. The Coalition institutions are in red, everyone else in gray. Colleges to the right have higher median SAT scores in the freshman class (another proxy for wealth, of course); colleges lower on the chart have fewer Pell grant kids as a percentage of all freshmen. Larger dots are wealthier. Hover over any dot for details about that college.
The the two-bar chart on the top shows Pell Grant enrollment.
There is one filter, to allow you to look at all institutions, just public, or just private. Go ahead, click. See if it makes much difference. And remember:
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
Hi, I just want to share this kawaii Japanese song I'm raving lately. I accidentally found this on Spotify while looking for something to perk up my mood while studying. Yep, studying...sometimes I need some background music while studying but only those songs I don't understand or I'm not familiar with. So that I won't be able to sing-a-long and get distracted. When listening to foreign songs like Jpop, I am more particular on the beat of the song and this one caught my attention and found myself LSS (Last Song Syndrome) and decided to find the lyrics and can't find one. Unfortunately, the lyrics is only in Japanese characters and I don't know how to read the thing. Good thing, Romajidesu will translate Japanese characters into Romaji though the English translation is really bad. Well, I'm not really into the English meaning but more on the lyrics so I can sing-a-along with it and share it with my friend and maybe we can sing it together some other time. LOL! Anyway, I was a bit surprised when I watched the music video since the leading lady in the video is chubby which is great for teens or girls to look up to. That no matter what dress size or body type you have, summer is for everybody and anyone can find their summer time love no matter how you look. Everyone has that someone out there. Just go out, enjoy life and be what you are.
Summer Time Love
Romaji/Kana Lyrics
Shiggy Jr.
samātaimu rabu 1 jikan dake nagaku gawa ni i rareru
kamisama kono kisetsu ga itsu made mo tsuzuki masu yō ni
nani demo uchiake rareru taisetsu na tomodachi
tatta hitotsu no kimochi ga dōshitemo ie nai yo
i tsu datte ano ko no hanashi bakari
soredemo kamawa nai kimi ni aeru nara
samātaimu rabu zenbu wasure te tanoshī koto shiyo u yo
kamisama kono jikan wa kirakira ni kagayaka se te
samātaimu rabu 1 jikan dake nagaku gawa ni i rareru
soredemo tari nai yo motto motto issho ni i sase te
odoke ta chōshi de karakat te bakkari ne
tsuyogat te miru kedo tokimei te shimau yo
katamimi zutsu wakeau iya fon
kun ga suki na uta watashi no uta ni naru
samātaimu rabu ni nin no toki wa ta no koto wasure te ne
kamisama kono jikan o zutto zutto tome te hoshī noni
samātaimu rabu 1 jikan dake nagaku gawa ni i rareru
todoki sō de mo todoka nai motto motto chikazuki tai noni
yūgure ni sora ga somari dase ba
naran da kage ga nobi hajime te iru
daiji na koto o īdase nai mama
furikaera zu ni tōzakat te iku kimi no
senaka o mitsume teru
samātaimu rabu zenbu wasure te tanoshī koto shiyo u yo
kamisama kono jikan wa kirakira ni kagayaka se te
samātaimu rabu 1 jikan dake nagaku gawa ni i rareru
Hi, I just want to share this kawaii Japanese song I'm raving lately. I accidentally found this on Spotify while looking for something to perk up my mood while studying. Yep, studying...sometimes I need some background music while studying but only those songs I don't understand or I'm not familiar with. So that I won't be able to sing-a-long and get distracted. When listening to foreign songs like Jpop, I am more particular on the beat of the song and this one caught my attention and found myself LSS (Last Song Syndrome) and decided to find the lyrics and can't find one. Unfortunately, the lyrics is only in Japanese characters and I don't know how to read the thing. Good thing, Romajidesu will translate Japanese characters into Romaji though the English translation is really bad. Well, I'm not really into the English meaning but more on the lyrics so I can sing-a-along with it and share it with my friend and maybe we can sing it together some other time. LOL! Anyway, I was a bit surprised when I watched the music video since the leading lady in the video is chubby which is great for teens or girls to look up to. That no matter what dress size or body type you have, summer is for everybody and anyone can find their summer time love no matter how you look. Everyone has that someone out there. Just go out, enjoy life and be what you are.
Summer Time Love
Romaji/Kana Lyrics
Shiggy Jr.
samātaimu rabu 1 jikan dake nagaku gawa ni i rareru
kamisama kono kisetsu ga itsu made mo tsuzuki masu yō ni
nani demo uchiake rareru taisetsu na tomodachi
tatta hitotsu no kimochi ga dōshitemo ie nai yo
i tsu datte ano ko no hanashi bakari
soredemo kamawa nai kimi ni aeru nara
samātaimu rabu zenbu wasure te tanoshī koto shiyo u yo
kamisama kono jikan wa kirakira ni kagayaka se te
samātaimu rabu 1 jikan dake nagaku gawa ni i rareru
soredemo tari nai yo motto motto issho ni i sase te
odoke ta chōshi de karakat te bakkari ne
tsuyogat te miru kedo tokimei te shimau yo
katamimi zutsu wakeau iya fon
kun ga suki na uta watashi no uta ni naru
samātaimu rabu ni nin no toki wa ta no koto wasure te ne
kamisama kono jikan o zutto zutto tome te hoshī noni
samātaimu rabu 1 jikan dake nagaku gawa ni i rareru
todoki sō de mo todoka nai motto motto chikazuki tai noni
yūgure ni sora ga somari dase ba
naran da kage ga nobi hajime te iru
daiji na koto o īdase nai mama
furikaera zu ni tōzakat te iku kimi no
senaka o mitsume teru
samātaimu rabu zenbu wasure te tanoshī koto shiyo u yo
kamisama kono jikan wa kirakira ni kagayaka se te
samātaimu rabu 1 jikan dake nagaku gawa ni i rareru
