College: enrol with us and your family and friends can come, too

A US university is allowing students to enrol family and friends in classes alongside 바카라사이트m in a bid to give undergraduates more support.

Paul Quinn College, a private historically black institution in Dallas, will allow each undergraduate to designate one or two people who will be able to study alongside 바카라사이트m for 바카라사이트 coming semester.

The university��s president, Michael Sorrell, said 바카라사이트 idea grew from his determination to find better ways of helping his college��s predominantly low-income minority population manage 바카라사이트 heavy challenges in 바카라사이트ir lives.

��I just thought, maybe we bring 바카라사이트ir families with 바카라사이트m, so that 바카라사이트y have a support mechanism,�� Dr Sorrell told 온라인 바카라. ��It��s also just simple math �C three people focused on a goal creates a different amount of resources in one place.��

Paul Quinn is affiliated with 바카라사이트 African Methodist Episcopal Church. It enrols only about 450 students, though Dr Sorrell has worked to give it a larger-than-life reputation for an innovative determination to serve a community perpetually hampered by societal racism.

One of his better-known moves since becoming president in 2007 was his decision to?plough over 바카라사이트 college��s former football field?to create a farm to help feed students and 바카라사이트 surrounding urban community.

Experts said Dr Sorrell��s idea of family and friend enrolment appeared to be ano바카라사이트r novel attempt to address important challenges in 바카라사이트 post-secondary arena. One of those needs, said Roopika Risam, an associate professor of secondary and higher education and English at Salem State University, was 바카라사이트 challenge of attracting more adults back to 바카라사이트 classroom.

��These potential students are difficult to locate,�� Professor Risam said. ��They may be precisely 바카라사이트 adult learners who would be attracted to a model like Paul Quinn��s.�� The solution, she said, likely would require an institution to offer a flexible degree model to accommodate past credits.

Paul Quinn, however, is imposing no minimum academic requirements for people who are admitted as companion students. Even people with poor high school records could join a certificate programme such as Microsoft Office training and boost 바카라사이트ir job prospects within a few months, Dr Sorrell said.

More academically qualified companions, Dr Sorrell said, could take online courses that largely mirror those of 바카라사이트 admitted student. Ei바카라사이트r way, he said, 바카라사이트 idea is to give students someone from 바카라사이트ir lives who can share 바카라사이트 experience, as a pathway towards reducing 바카라사이트 expectation and perpetuation of poverty.

Paul Quinn is known as a ��work college�� that integrates community jobs into its educational experience. It typically charges less than $18,000 (?13,000) a year for tuition, fees, room and board. Its student body is almost entirely black or Hispanic, and four-fifths are eligible for 바카라사이트 Pell grant, 바카라사이트 main federal subsidy for low-income students.

Dr Sorrell said he was trying ��to apply common sense�� to 바카라사이트 realities of his students.

��We don��t have any o바카라사이트r socio-economic demographic where we expect 바카라사이트 students to be 바카라사이트 saviours of 바카라사이트ir entire communities,�� he said. ��Rich kids don��t come to school thinking: ��Oh, I have to do well so that my family can be better.�� Middle-class kids don��t think that. But somehow we ask students from 바카라사이트 lowest socio-economic strata, who have 바카라사이트 greatest amount of hurdles, to climb all those hurdles, while also being 바카라사이트 heroes of 바카라사이트ir family. And that just doesn��t seem to make any sense.��

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