StudentsReview ™ :: Mark a survey Invalid or inform SR staff

-or-
Search for Colleges by Region
 

or within distance of city





  Who's got the Best (variable)?

Perceptual Rankings:
You Make 'Em.
We Post 'Em.
You Vote 'Em Up.
You Vote 'Em Down.
Aww yeah.


Mark a survey and Inform Staff

Please do not overuse -- this is just intended to notify SR staff of probably invalid surveys. We will not "edit" or censor existing valid surveys.

This Survey/Comment is:
Valid
Invalid
Wrong location/Incorrect School
None of the above
Mark all that apply:
Content Nonsensical
Content Useless
Duplicate Survey
High Vulgarity
High Grammatical Error
Malicious Intent/Faked
Probably Admissions
SPAM
Added notes (max 100 chars):

Please remember that all surveys, even vulgar ones or those with poor grammar, convey something about the student body and the institution.

 
Existing Review Notes:
Administration:

Peer Review:
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammati

Statistical Analyzer:

 
Survey (Identifying information hidden.)
ADKEY: 28594
Anywhere: 1
Charac: 3
ContactOk:
Csalary:
Gender:
GoingWell: 1
HigherED: 1
Intelligence: 4
Motivation: 5
Position1: Industrial hygiene
Position2: civil engineer
Position3: research biologist
Position4: college prof, chair biology
Position5: President of consulting Co.
Position6:
Preparedness: 9
Professional:
Relevance: 1
Reputation: 8
ReviewLevel:
Satisfied: 1
Ssalary: 10000
StartingJob: engineer
StillInField:
UContrib1:
UContrib2:
UContrib3: 1
UContrib4:
WhereURNow1:
WhereURNow2:
WhereURNow3:
WhereURNow4:
WhereURNow5:
WhereURNow6: 1
WhereURNow7:
WhereURNow8:
Year: 66
Valid Email Address

I read most of the the reviews, positive and negative. Most have a degree of truth in them. Goddard is and was not for everyone. I have visited the college every few years and twice since it became low residential. I find the student who thrives at Goddard to be much the same as when I was there in the mid-60s. The graduate students I talked to for the most part came from excellent colleges and universities and told me it definitely had not become a diploma mill. They felt it was very selective and even then, many could not accept the rigor required from the faculty. That is the way I remember Goddard when I was in the residential undergraduate program.

There were drugs at Goddard in the mid-60s but also at the state university, at which I started and the graduate schools I later attended. They are present at the college I taught at for three decades. So what is new? Some students abstain, some handle it well and a few become addicts. Goddard was no different than other schools then and, I suspect, now.

I was probably one of the few students who graduated with degrees in both chemistry and biology. I went home near Cape Kennedy and found I could use my chemistry degree to work in environmental engineering, a new field at the time. I had no problem with the work and was encouraged to take graduate courses at the UF engineering branch at the Cape. The dean did not know how to evaluate the Goddard transcript so allowed me to take two graduate courses as a post-bac student. I had no problem making A's in both courses so he then admitted me into the engineering college where I pursued a master's in civil engineering with an emphasis on environmental engineering.

Goddard had prepared me well for independent thinking and problem solving in the REAL world. After a decade I decided to go back to graduate school and earn a PhD in cell biology and microbiology. I spent the next 30+ years in academia advancing through the ranks and becoming chair of my department for almost a decade before I retired. I now have a consulting business advising high school students on how to select the right college.

One thing about Goddard, it is what you make it.

I have looked at the current faculty, most of whom are at great universities and colleges and are using Goddard to earn a little extra cash. According to the students I have spoken to when I visited, these adjunct faculty are still engaged with their students and happy to have a different way to actively engage students that is, IMHO, much more effective than the "sage on the stage" model that still exists at most colleges and universities.

I started my undergraduate college career at a large university. The classes were enormous and most were taught by graduate students who cared nothing about non-majors. I suffered through a horrible mishmash of a humanities course. At Goddard we did not read snippets of great works but we read the entire work. I remember a course on the Protestant Reformation where we read 15 books in one semester covering it from many perspectives. Papers required were long and involved and rigorously evaluated, though not graded in the traditional sense. This was real education, not a few lines learned to drop at a dinner party. A Goddard education let me realize my potential and be able to converse intelligently with colleagues in diverse fields from physics to philosophy. And most importantly, Goddard helped me become a life-long learner.

StudentsReview Advice!

• What is a good school?
• Statistical Significance
• How to choose a Major
• How to choose your Career
• What you make of it?
• How Ivy League Admissions works
• On the Student/Faculty Ratio

• FAFSA: Who is a Parent?
• FAFSA: Parent Contribution
• FAFSA: Dream out of reach

• College Financial Planning
• Survive College and Graduate
• Sniffing Out Commuter Schools
• Preparing for College: A HS Roadmap
• Talking to Your Parents about College.
• Is a top college worth it?
• Why is college hard?
• Why Kids Aren't Happy in Traditional Schools