Week 4

Colleges in the United States are very different from those in China. To begin with, American colleges have a much greater attendance rate than those in China. Chinese universities are much more elitist, though they are working to get away from this. In 1999 China implemented a higher education enrollment explansion plan to increase the number of students attending Chinese universities. My classes in China were taught in a much different style from those that I am attending here at Akron. My classes were much less discussion based and there were very few online aspects. The Springboard discussion sessions that we have here, were not part of my courses in China. In China, our computer science and technology is not nearly as develped as in the United States. Students in China are primarily traditional students and they primarily all live on campus. This is a very different situation from Akron, where there is a large commuter population. We do not be large areas of space dedicated to parking garages, as Akron does. These spaces would more than likely be filled with Resident Halls.