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According to a College statement, the sophomore advisors will provide academic counsel to students as they near their date of declaration, as well as pre-professional and extracurricular guidance as they acclimate to House life...
...active learning that gets students thinking and applying knowledge. "Just as one doesn't become a marathon runner by reading about the Boston Marathon," says the committee report, "so, too, one doesn't become a good problem solver by listening to lectures or reading about statistics." Acknowledging how important extracurricular activities have become on campus, the report calls for a stronger link between the endeavors students pursue inside and outside the classroom. Those studying poverty, for example, absorb more if they also volunteer at a homeless shelter, suggests Bok, whose 2005 book, Our Underachieving Colleges, cites a finding that students...
...think it’s a strong point for the American system.”Life SwappingResidential life isn’t the only novel thing about American college life for the exchange students. Like many freshmen during orientation week, Mason was blown away by the extent of extracurricular activities at Harvard. While students at Sciences Po spend more time in the classroom, Harvard kids are running clubs and founding organizations. “They don’t expect you to get involved in organizations as much,” Mason says of Sciences Po. But on U.S. soil...
...jointly by the New Mexico Department of Education and the Children, Youth and Families Department, it cannot by law accept donations the way a normal public school would. But with the help of the PTA, a nonprofit supporting agency, Murphy hopes to be able to raise money for extracurricular activities that states funds cannot be spent on - such things as athletic uniforms, prom dresses and pizza rewards for superior academic performance. She could not have even afforded to put on the upcoming open house, which she hopes to do once a semester from now on, without PTA assistance. Foothill...
Instead, the College should continue its policy of salutary neglect toward extracurricular activities and recognize that the “tendency on the part of many students to regard their extracurricular life as separate from their academic experience” is in fact a boon, not a burden...