Budgets are the most important part of any business, but more importantly for any school. In order to keep the school doors open a budget needs to be in place as well as ways in which to grow the University or College. Since the last post I have learned a lot in regards to budgets and advancement with Lenoir-Rhyne University due to the interviews we all needed to conduct. It is extremely facinating how the CFO and Vice President of Advancement go about handling the budget. The most important thing is that they are both wanting to grow the University and make sure it stays in line with other institutions our size. For me, the most interesting thing learned is how the CFO tries to make sure there is $1 million of the budget left over at the end of each year in order to advance the University. If there is updating or changes that need to be made to a facility that money would pay for that. Another interesting finding is the fact that the only approval level for our school's budget is through the local level or in other words the Board of Trustees of the University. One of the readings that really stuck out to me in relation to the job that I hold is the alcohol use at Community College's. Even though I am working at a University and relatively small University there is still alcohol use. However, this topic is overall at all colleges and universities. The amount of alcohol use by college students has increased. It is said that 80% of college students have at least one alcoholic drink over a two week period (Palmeri). This article by Josephine Palmeri believes that the issue with college students increase in concumption of alcohol stems from peer pressure. Students go from depending upon their parents at home for so many years to getting to college and depending upon their peers. They no longer have mom and dad telling them what to do, they have their peers telling me to consume alcoholic drinks because "its what everyone else is doing." This goes in line with all the student services that are needed on college campuses. These counseling services and other services colleges provide are needed for issues like peer pressure. If a student is stuggling with peer pressure and needs someone to talk to they need these services to help with the issues of being a college student.
Reference:
Palmeri, J. Peer pressure and alcohol use amongst college students. Retrieved from http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/appsych/opus/issues/2011/fall/peer.
BLOG RESPONSE #3: Budgets and Advancement
ReplyDeleteI particularly enjoyed this blog post Alison, because I authored a thesis paper during my undergraduate studies at California Polytechnic, SLO. I found that more students every year trended into the category as “binge drinkers” (Dally, 2010). It is interesting to see that number continually rise from 2010 and become more of an issue today. I also noticed, while playing football in Europe, that Europeans didn’t have the same alcohol tendencies as we have in the states. I learned that the drinking age in most European countries is 16. This shocked me at first, but the longer I spent over seas the more I realized that the average 18 year old in Europe was far more mature than the American counterpart. I attributed this matureness to their understanding of “how to drink” as opposed to the “how much can I drink” mentality back home. It seemed as if kids in Europe didn’t associate drinking alcohol to being accepted as most college students nowadays do. This need to feel accepted attributes to college students giving into the pressures of their peers and ultimately—making poor life decisions at a pivotal moment of growth. Hannah Loewentheil writes in an article that students often feel that they must be inebriated in order to socialize and have a good time (2013). She also notes that people under the age of 21 often pregame excessively in order to get drunk because they cannot buy alcohol once they are in public (Loewentheil, 2013). I just loved your post and thought that maybe I could add to the conversation.
Dally, J. (2010). ANYALYSIS OF BINGE DRINKING AMONG STUDENTS AT CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO. Digital Commons at Cal Poly, 1-52. Retrieved December 7, 2015, from http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewconten t.cgi?article=1021&context=agbsp
Loewentheil, H. (2013, July 30). Can You Guess Where In The World People Are Binge Drinking The Most? Retrieved December 7, 2015, from http://mic.com/articles/57211/can-you-guess-where-in-the-world-people-are-binge-drinking-the-most#.gYj wgp8ub