I. Before you read

Wise People Talk

Discuss the quotations in groups. To what extent do you agree with the authors?

• Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Omar N. Bradley, American general (1893-1981)

• I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

C lark Kerr (1911 - 2003)

Phrase Bank

• And the thing that comes particularly strongly

• We need to be very careful in making the judgment;

• It’s a problem that will only increase in time;

• Let me give you an example of what I mean;

• What can be said with certainty is that…

Higher education in the usa: campus

II. Read the text with an eye for the vocabulary units in bold; come up with their explanations and translations.

campus

gymnasium

athletic field

dormitory/residence hall

college- or university-approved housing

live on/off campus

counselors

supervisors

student governing organizations

facilities

provide food service

student supporting services

career placement and advising

commuter college

Campus is the land on which a college or university stands. Most U.S. institutions have developed an expansive infrastructure to meet the needs of students. The main buildings on a campus usually include classroom buildings, an administration building, a library, laboratories, a gymnasium, an athletic field and stadium, and dormitories. Some institutions require that undergraduate students live in college- or university-approved housing, especially during their first and second years. At other institutions, students may live either on or off campus. Off-campus housing may be in privately owned or independently operated boarding houses, apartments, or rooms. Some students organize their own cooperative living arrangements and jointly rent apartments or houses to reduce housing and food expenses. Older students usually serve as residence hall counselors and supervisors, often in return for free living arrangements. Residence halls usually have their own student governing organizations that set rules and procedures for the facilities. In addition to providing food service and sleeping rooms, dormitories offer programming to students on a variety of topics, both academic and social, such as AIDS awareness, alcohol abuse, and study skills. Colleges and universities additionally provide a range of student supporting services, including personal counseling, career placement and advising, recreation and physical fitness, child care, banking, and health care. Colleges that do not provide on-campus housing are called commuter colleges, because students have to commute to the college for classes.

III. After you read

1. Imagine you are a mature senior student at an American University. Answer the following question an applicant puts you.

1. Where would I live? Does the institution provide me with some housing?

2. What is a campus? What will I find on it?

3. Do you advise me to opt for on- or off-campus housing? Why?

4. I fear to remain lonely. Are there any additional services the institution provides?

2. Suggest English equivalents from the text for the following Russian words and word combinations.

a. виробити всебічну інфраструктуру

b. гуртожиток

c. житло на території/поза межами кампусу (студмістечка)

d. радник та доглядач гуртожитку

e. поінформованість щодо СНІДу

f. зловживання алкоголем

g. низка служб підтримки студентів

h. догляд за дитиною

i. коледжі, що не забезпечують житлом на території студмістечка

3 (a) Consider the synonyms; match words with their definitions.

1. Dormitory/dorm	a. place where people, especially young people who are travelling, can stay very cheaply for a short time
2. Hall of residence	b. American English a large building at a college or university where students live
3. Hostel	c. school where students live as well as study
4. Boarding school	d. British English college or university building where students live

(b) Fill in the gaps with the appropriate synonyms from (a). Suggest ALL the possible answers.

1. The walls surrounding the courtyard used to protect what was once a fortress but which is now a…………………..

2. His parents sent him to a …………………..for students in the seventh to ninth grades run by the Legionaries.

3. Female students under twenty-one were required to live in ………….. or approved residences.

4. When I was in the eight-bed ……………it was terribly noisy, and I had to make the choice between studies and parties.

NB 4. Consider the following translator’s note

DORMITORY (from Lat. dormire - to sleep)

1. загальна спальня, дортуар (для вихованців навчальних закладів)

2. студентський гуртожиток (амер.)

с. спальний приміський район (town that is near a city with more work opportunities, so that many people who live there travel to work in the city every day.)

HOSTEL (from Lat. hospitale “a place to stay at” (comp. hospital, hotel), probably from hostis “stranger, enemy”)

1. турбаза (для членів Асоціації молодіжних турбаз (Youth Hostels Association), що забезпечує молодих туристів гуртожитками за помірними цінами.)