How Uni­ver­si­ties Can Im­prove

Every uni­ver­sity has the po­ten­tial to im­prove, but is there a pat­tern? Ed­u­ca­tion ex­perts cre­ate sur­veys and re­search on stu­dent life at uni­ver­si­ties every­day to find out.

Some of the rea­sons that uni­ver­si­ties are hav­ing so many re­ten­tions are due to fi­nan­cial dif­fi­cul­ties, course avail­abil­ity, ab­sence of coun­sel­ing help and de­pri­va­tion of stu­dent en­gage­ment.

Reach­ing out to coun­selors and ap­ply­ing for schol­ar­ships, can solve some of those prob­lems but for how long? Stu­dents are re­fer­ring to the sum­mary of re­cent Amer­i­can Col­lege Health As­so­ci­a­tion re­ports, say­ing that mod­ern uni­ver­si­ties’ lec­ture style “is not fa­vor­able to stu­den­t’s men­tal health.”

All over the world, uni­ver­sity fac­ul­ties are work­ing to cre­ate more in­no­v­a­tive class­room lessons by try­ing new ed­u­ca­tional tech and help­ing to bet­ter ef­fec­tive lec­ture prac­tices.

Re­searchers are of­ten cre­at­ing new re­sources and tools for the ben­e­fit of col­lege stu­dents. At lo­cal uni­ver­sity fac­ul­ties with dif­fer­ent re­searchers, teach­ers may get to ex­per­i­ment with new math cur­ricu­lums that high­light so­cial jus­tice, cre­at­ing iPhone apps and ex­per­i­ment­ing with video games to en­hance user con­tent ar­eas of ed­u­ca­tion.

Ed­u­ca­tion at uni­ver­si­ties is­n’t the only prob­lem that oc­curs everyday. Ath­letes in col­lege are hav­ing to stress not only about school, but their ex­tra-curricular ac­tiv­i­ties as well. Students are trou­bled by other sports at uni­ver­si­ties, whom they have to share fields with. 

“The prac­tice space gap is hard to deal with, and it’s hard to get teams on the base­ball field.” April Sitch, a Maryville stu­dent says.

Stu­dents can use their voice to work to­wards these prob­lems. The Na­tional Stu­dent Sur­vey gives the stu­dents, a voice al­low­ing them to pro­vide their col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties with feed­back on spe­cific courses and teach­ing en­vi­ron­ments.