Local Culture and College Culture

When opening the cultural gate of local culture and university, five young people stepped into the restaurant, exhibited earrings, long hairpins, anti-cultural clothing, dozens of flannel-rolled middle-aged men headed I directed it. All the students at Goshen College sit on a table at the corner and smile at themselves while other customers keep staring at them for a few minutes. They were sitting in the seats and looking out of the window when the sun was shining, but looking forward to returning to another fine breakfast in the southern style.

About the wonderful university town, there is undeniable vitality, charm, romance. Under very practical conditions, communities that respond to the university's population can bring great benefit to students - culturally, socially, and economically. Due to the value awareness that I want to fully experience this, we are happy to list 50 affordable university towns. To create this list, we chose 50 university cities with the highest living expense index scores issued by the Community and Economic Research Council. The living expenses index takes into account factors such as food items, houses, utilities, transportation and medical care. The definition of "university city" comes from Wikipedia.

As a cultural anthropologist, I read and think commonly about the common values ​​and beliefs of American community university culture, past, present and future. I am a member of Community College Culture. As community colleges are sports and ongoing work, we are vulnerable to local, state and federal funding, and economic growth and recession. Our adaptability is power, but it can also be ambiguity and tension.

First grader is not "thirteen grader". Even if you come to a university from high school, students who are going to enter college will enter a new culture, even if you come to university from the work world. Let's think about university culture from the perspective of anthropologist. For newcomers, universities offer a series of foreign norms, traditions, rituals, and new languages ​​and environments. The educational culture of high school and university is totally different. It is not surprising that students are making hard transitions again. The transition from high school students to successful university students is not a coincidence, and it certainly does not happen through a simple penetration. As a university educator, we must keep in mind that we chose higher education for our work. Many of our students today are not. Because they are here, they can not become successful college students.