Milam's Musings, milambc@miamioh.edu
My freshman year of high school was the first time that the concept of "college" became less of a concept and more of an eventual reality. It was a time of slacking on Geometry homework in order to make room for dizzying amounts of Google searches, taking random online quizzes to try and pinpoint the ideal campus for myself based on questions like "What's your favorite color?" or "What is your household's average annual income?" However, perhaps the most troubling discovery of all was learning about the dreaded undergraduate major.
By Megan Pender, Junior Early Childhood Education Major
The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.
What do the Middletown and Hamilton campuses look like? What kinds of courses are taught there? Have you ever met a Middletown or Hamilton student? I have been a student at Miami Oxford for all of one semester, so you may assign appropriate weight to my comments, but I would assume 90 percent of Oxford students have never even seen the Middletown or Hamilton campuses, let alone met a student or taken a class at either of these campuses.
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Milam's Musings, milambc@miamioh.edu
The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.
By Steve Beynon, For The Miami Student
Madeleine's Matters
The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.
Blaming issues on social networks is not warranted
Milam's Musings
In response to Nov. 4 letter to the editor, "Admitting international students for the wrong reasons brings down the university," the Editorial Board would like to clarify, the original letter was sent via anonymous forum. We are unable to confirm the author was a faculty member at Miami. Please email your comments, concerns to eic@miamistudent.net.
In response to Nov. 4 letter to the editor, "Admitting international students for the wrong reasons brings down the university," the Editorial Board would like to clarify, the original letter was sent via anonymous forum. We are unable to confirm the author was a faculty member at Miami. Please email your comments, concerns to eic@miamistudent.net.
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By David Shoemaker, For The Miami Student
We, the undersigned faculty of the Asian and Asian American Studies Program and other concerned faculty, staff and students at Miami University, unequivocally disagree with the anonymous faculty member who wrote the opinion piece, "Admitting international students for the wrong reasons brings down the university," published on Nov. 4, 2014, in The Miami Student. We also join our colleagues in the English Department and other Miami faculty, staff, students and alumni, to express our enthusiastic support for all international students, whom we see as an invaluable resource for a university committed to offering a global education based on four principles: thinking critically, understanding contexts, engaging with other learners and reflecting and acting. However, international students face many challenges that need to be addressed in order for their skills, experiences and backgrounds to be fully realized for all members of Miami, and for them to be welcomed as full Miamians.
Madeleine's Matters