What makes a “good college” – and why it matters | Cecilia M. Orphan | TEDxMileHigh

That was an awesome talk. I am definitely changing my financial end of life giving to the RPUs.

This is an incredible speech! ❤ I can’t agree more with her.

I believe that for personal growth... the environment you live in matters... your surrounding matters... the people you are surrounded with 24x7 matters.... and that's why i wanna get into the best universities to surround myself with the people who actually think outside the box... I wanna share my ideas with them, wanna know their ideas... we can collab and make bigger ideas... THATS MY DREAM... and i'm currently working for it

Wow she is very good speaker. Her speech just amazing.

Very brilliant and altruistic presentation. Much appreciated.

woah I’m first, never thought I’d see the day. I think one issue is that this is just human nature, we tend to go for things that look exclusive, cough cough the ivy league schools. They look so exclusive because not as many people can just get in. Not saying they’re bad, just saying that even with low acceptance rates like 3% people are still applying, some even knowing that it’s out of their reach

Bravo! It was incredible, thanks for that deep and thought-provoking speech

You inspire me thank you so much. I appreciate you❤

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Yes, it’s time to change our perspective about higher education. Amen to every single word she said.

I mean what she said is right, the actual changes in the country is not by some big high reject colleges, it's from people. And most people aren't gonna be in high reject colleges but at high accepting colleges. People should make it so that mediocre or lower level colleges gets equal or good funding. Maybe by other high reject colleges, people or from government.

A “good college” has “good funding”. There is a direct relationship between the two. This applies to secondary education too because the ability to succeed in college is developed in secondary school. Underfunded and undemanding secondary education dooms all but the brilliant and dilligent students to marginal success in college. But getting into college is not as hard as graduating from that college. (Graduation rate for public universities is 62%) Many colleges have instituted writing requirements to raise students’ poor writing skills. (There is a reason they call it 13th grade.) Regional Public Universities, even major State Universities need more funding. Today, public Universities’ are teaching core classes in auditoriums with 1200 students augmented with teaching assistants. Each student paying the same price per credit hour as the engineering class with 30 students. Why ? Because of poor state funding. Universities are recruiting foreign and out of state students. Why? Because foreigners pay full price and have no chance of “state resident” rates. Also, fewer in-state residents are accepted because they are being sacrificed for increased out-of-state student revenues. Finally, if more colleges were endowed with the same funding as "Harvard, MIT, Yale and Stanford”, they wouldn’t be so exclusive anymore.

Her voice is so satisfying.. 😍

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.” ― Shelby Foote

I’m also a first generation college professor from a liberal arts university! Thank you for giving such an important talk 😊

Great talk

Great Ted talk. Highly rejective schools don’t necessarily create highly successful adults.

Very much appreciated 👍🏻

Love this, Great Information

Our people whether young or older need to hear this informative and insightful presentation especially for people who view that prestige is the only valuable existence in the world ⭐