What does Nayef Samhat say is a strength of American higher education?

· The very low cost to earn a degree

· The number of small private schools

· The low level of institutional competition

· The many different kinds of schools

What skill does Mark Roosevelt say St. John's study program improves?

· Leadership

· Critical thinking

· Time management

· Creativity

What does Nik Money say students will need to prepare for in their future careers?

· Many job changes

· Lower earnings

· More competition

· Use of technology

What does the Meyerhoff Scholars Program do?

· Forces students to work together

· Gets students research experience

· Makes students arrive to class early

· All of the above

IV. Language — Cloze (Gap-fill)

Which of these words go in the text below?

1) (a) worries (b) are worried (c) worry (d) worrying   

2) (a)    in (b) to (c) on (d) at   

3)(a) running (b) to run (c) run (d) runs   

4)(a) supposes     (b) owes (c) offers (d) causes   

5)(a) interest (b) interesting (c)    are interested (d) interested   

6)(a) asks (b) helps (c) forces (d) insists   

7)(a) much (b) few (c) little (d) a lot of   

8)(a) in (b) at (c) - (d) of   

 

Other school leaders 1)_____ about the increase of the non-traditional student population 2)_____American higher education. This includes older adults and students with fewer financial resources, meaning their need for support from their institution is greater.

Mike Summers helps 3)____run the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program. The public research university’s program 4)______offers financial assistance to high performing minority high school students 5)_____ in science.

The program 6)______forces students to work together on special projects, helps them get research experience in real laboratories and even requires them to come to classes early.

Summers says there are 7)______ students who dream of becoming scientists but never do. The Meyerhoff program works to ensure that minority students are given a chance to enter those fields. He adds that it is one 8)_____ the main purposes of higher education.

“Whether it’s medical research or technology or math, or even just inspiring students … there is … desire to do what’s right,” said Summers.

  V. Put the words in the right order to form sentences:

1. program special students to work The together on projects forces.

2. their This prepare the careers likely will changes in in the future students for.

3. learned must a major Students project connecting produce everything have in the they end.

4. Students to share their also experiences when expected they return to Wofford are.

5. school are the worried Other about the of student population in American higher non-traditional leaders increase education.