ENG221.000 Spring 2017
Although college enrollment rates have risen throughout the years, there is a growing gap between the enrollment rates of men and women. More women are now enrolling in colleges than men. This study conducted by Pew Research Center examines the gender gaps in college enrollment across 4 different ethnicities (Hispanic, black, white, and Asian) and compares […]
Although college enrollment rates have risen throughout the years, there is a growing gap between the enrollment rates of men and women. More women are now enrolling in colleges than men. This study conducted by Pew Research Center examines the gender gaps in college enrollment across 4 different ethnicities (Hispanic, black, white, and Asian) and compares […]
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My final installment for the podcast took a shift in subject matter. Shiven, the producer of this episode, and I decided that we would would choose a more interactive type of new media for this episode. After, deciding on Rockstar’s Grand theft Auto V, we got to work learning the intricacies of the game. We […]
In this second podcast, I was a complete professional… Just kidding. By no means should I be considered a professional podcaster. However, I didn’t go into this one blind, afraid to listen to my own voice on recording and afraid to improvise off of a script. I went into the second podcast knowing how to …
In a lot of ways, the work for this project is inspired by, and is meant to build upon, the research and results achieved by The Opportunity Project. As students at Emory University, our immediate interest came at the college level, where we were able to see which schools performed well and which didn’t quite …
I believe that my group has been successfully progressing through our project and towards our projected goal regarding university endowment and mobility. The biggest challenge so far has been in the comparison between private and public schools and the differences in endowment between those different institutions. It is not level grounds for comparison as public … Continue reading In-Class Free Write: Equality of Opportunity Project
The equality of opportunity project include data on economic and social mobility of students from hundreds of schools across the nation. My group thus far has gathered data on the top 20 schools based in mobility rate. Our idea is to compare these top 20 schools and see what characteristics they have in common. Perhaps […]
At the beginning of the project, our group was struggling to come up with a question that could be answered with the data we had. We were thinking of very broad questions that had many variables within it that made it difficult to answer. After tossing around ideas, we eventually agreed that we were interested in […]
I think my role in this venture based around the Equality of Opportunity Project involves writing and storytelling. While I’m not the best at data analysis, I can tell a story. So, it’s my hopes that within this group, I can hopefully be the person who takes the figures and the notes and the analyses …
