{"id":798,"date":"2011-11-22T11:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/?p=798"},"modified":"2011-11-28T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T18:17:42","slug":"christy-and-lucy%e2%80%99s-revised-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/2011\/11\/22\/christy-and-lucy%e2%80%99s-revised-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Christy and Lucy\u2019s Revised Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Gose, \u201cDo Minority Orientations Encourage Segregation?,\u201d The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, September 4, 1998, sec. Students, http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Do-Minority-Orientations\/2236\/.<\/p>\n

This article addresses the issue of whether or not minority orientations are important on college campuses.\u00a0 Although the article was written in 1998, it is still a very important issue on many campuses.\u00a0 Further, it is interesting to note the negative sides to minority orientations as many campuses have already decided to stop these programs.<\/p>\n

Peter Schmidt, \u201cFrom \u2018Minority\u2019 to \u2018Diversity\u2019,\u201d The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, February 3, 2006, Volume 52, Issue 22 edition, sec. Archives\u202f: Government & Politics.<\/p>\n

This article was written by an author we are familiar with already, Peter Schmidt.\u00a0 The article discusses the issue of college programs for minority students only.\u00a0 By isolating minority students in certain programs, the idea of diversity is being lost. Specific colleges are discussed that have opened effective programs to all races without discriminating on minority students.<\/p>\n

Christopher Shea, \u201cOrientation at Penn,\u201d The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 15, 1993, sec. Archives, http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Orientation-at-Penn\/92558\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article, although from the year 1993, addresses issues still contemporary and prevalent to 2011.\u00a0 The issue of racism on campus between white and black students at the University of Pennsylvania is the main focus of the article.\u00a0 It explains that the University dealt with these issues by performing skits for the younger students during orientation week.<\/p>\n

Eric Hoover, \u201cKeeping Sophomores in College,\u201d The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2006, Volume 53, Issue 9 edition, sec. Letters to the Editor\u202f: The Chronicle Review.<\/p>\n

This article, found in The Chronicle of Higher Education, addresses sophomore year retention rates, and ways in which orientation programs for sophomores can be implemented in order to be effective.<\/p>\n

The problem we are facing on campus at Trinity College is the issue of race and social class cliques.\u00a0 Most students tend to stick to a group of friends that they feel the most comfortable with, which is commonly fellow students of the same race or social class.\u00a0 Further, the varying perspectives of diversity on campus makes it difficult to combat the issue.\u00a0 Many white students feel as thought being at Trinity has exposed them to more diversity then they have ever seen, while students of color feel as though they are the obvious minorities on campus. \u00a0It is essential at a Liberal Arts college for students to be exposed to new things and be open to change.\u00a0 Currently at Trinity, because of the cliques, students are not fulfilling their college experience.\u00a0 Since students are mostly interacting with those similar to themselves, they are not learning about new cultures, places, or new experiences.<\/p>\n

In order to resolve the issue of cliques on campus, we propose to revamp the first year orientation program, and to implement an innovative, effective second year orientation program to further integrate each student into the college community after their \u201cnew\u201d label has worn off.\u00a0 In this orientation program, students will interact with peers outside their primary group of friends.\u00a0 The anticipated effect of this new program will be an increased sense of unity amongst the members of the class after the members have had a year to settle in and find their comfort zones.\u00a0 These comfort zones will be pushed and expanded further in order to enhance the liberal arts college experience.\u00a0 Additionally, having recently gone through the first year orientation, we have clear perspectives on what works and what doesn\u2019t within the first week of school, and can therefore suggest new ideas in order to improve the activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Gose, \u201cDo Minority Orientations Encourage Segregation?,\u201d The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 4, 1998, sec. Students, http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Do-Minority-Orientations\/2236\/. This article addresses the issue of whether or not minority orientations are important on college campuses.\u00a0 Although the article was written in 1998, it is still a very important issue on many campuses.\u00a0 Further, it is interesting … Continue reading Christy and Lucy\u2019s Revised Proposal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}