What is higher education?

PART A (Due no later than 12:00 PM Eastern Standard US Time, on Wed. Jun, 30th, 2021)

What is a "real" education? What is the purpose of education? What do you expect to get from your education? 

Respond to the questions above in 1 + 1/2 pages. Please be sure to organize this assignment -- develop a clear introduction with a thesis; body paragraphs, with support; and a conclusion. Please submit as an individual Microsoft Word document. 

PART B  (Due no later than 12:00 PM Eastern Standard US Time, on Wed. Jun 30th, 2021)

Read the following article and construct SOAPS notes for it. This should be another Microsoft Word document. 

https://main.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/486-who-are-you-and-what-are-you-doing-here

SOAPS should include 4-5 sentences MINIMUM for EACH question. Please label your responses, accordingly: (Subject, Opinion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker)...

Subject: What is the subject? General topic, content, ideas contained in the text... 

Opinion: What is your opinion/response to the reading? 

Audience: Who is the audience? The group of readers or viewers to whom this article is directed? How do you know? 

Purpose: Why is he/she writing or speaking? What is the reason behind the article? 

Speaker: About the speaker -- What is his or her tone? Concerned? Matter-of-Fact? Angry? How do you know? Pick at least one quote from the speaker and explain why you chose that quotation ---- Why was it important to you? 

PART C (Due no later than 6:00 PM Eastern Standard US time, on Wed. Jun. 30th)

In your own words respond to the following question: 

What is the transformative potential of education? 

Your response should be 1/2 a page, submitted as an independent Microsoft Word Document. 

PART D  (Due no later than 10:00 AM, Eastern Standard US Time, on Thurs. July 1st, 2021)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0324/p09s02-coop.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomlindsay/2019/03/30/the-other-college-scandal-grade-inflation-has-turned-transcripts-into-monopoly-money/

Briefly compare these two articles? What are some of the shared ideas? What are some of the differences in the arguments? Your response should be approximately 1/2 a page. Submit it as a standalone Microsoft Word document. Then write SOAPS notes for each article, in two independent documents, following the above format, outlined in Part B...