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what are the consequences of not understanding what college is for?
Ans: unmet expectations, checking out, avoidance, anger, boredom, frustration,
lack of interaction
T/F: Professors and students have the same interpretations of what college is and
what it is for
Ans: false
What are the 4 secret skills of college
Ans: speaking, writing, reading, thinking
Class size and skill development
Ans: increased class size results in a decrease of skill development
Art of College Management
Ans: when students select and arrange courses that avoid these skills
cultural capital
Ans: when someone has these skills, it is wealth that can be exchanged, wealth in
the form of the mind
educational inequality
Ans: when something inhibits skills
T/F: these skills lead to cultural capital
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Ans: true
T/F: cultural capital leads to success
Ans: true
circus refers to...
Ans: little to no seriousness in Schoo, free for all-ness
where did the title beer and circus come from?
Ans: Juvenal's poem, appeasement, generate approval by means of distraction
The middle class have been given fun at the expense of what?
Ans: foundational skills
culture
Ans: the way of life of a group
culture is prescriptive means what
Ans: culture tells us what to do, shapes and guides us, creates insider and outsider
effects
what do universities do to try and counteract beer and circus?
Ans: they create learning communities, FYOS, undergraduate research programs,
service learning
When did alcohol consumption by Greek organization members escalate?
Ans: 1980s and 90s