College Lingo
A paragraph-length summary of the methods and major findings of an article in a scholarly journal
What is an abstract
Times that instructors set aside to meet with students
What are office hours?
Activities that research show have significant positive impact
What are high-impact practices?
Degree area that studies human movement
What is Kinesiology or Exercise Science?
A tendency against or in favor of certain groups or value systems.
What is bias?
Freedom of speech of inquiry as long as human lives, rights, and privacy are not violated
What is academic freedom?
Guidelines for goal setting spelling what acrostic?
What are SMART goals?
If you learned how to use science and technology to build machines, engines, and other structures, then you studied:
What is Engineering?
A person who prefers to learn by listening to information.
What is an aural learner?
A relationship established online where people frequently have never met face-to-face
An online or internet relationship?
Courses that all students must take (e.g., English)
What are general education courses?
If you performed in plays and studied how to act then your college major was:
What is Theater?
You have to be a U.S. citizen to attend college in the United States? Yes or No?
What is no?
A term that describes using the Internet as a storage device and sharing files and folders with others.
What is cloud computing?
An attraction or interactions with someone who has the power to affect your grades or job
What is a power relationship?
Graduating in four years is an example of what kind of goal?
What is long-term goal?
The type of terminal degree that most of your faculty have?
What is a Ph.D.
Self-direction and independence
What is autonomy?
Undue interference by a group of people related to you.
What is family meddling?
Place on campus that features a career library, interest assessment, etc.
What is the Career Center?
The highest degree available in the legal profession
What is a Juris Doctorate?