Blog #4

Halsband, Frances. “Campuses in Place.” Welcome to the World is A Text. 3rd ed. New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc., 2009. 484-491. Print.

This article focuses on how different campuses varieties in their appearance wise of the campus with the buildings. Explaining how each university gives a design that has respect for tradition, that relates and works well with the nature around, landscaping which would invite us, the students to the campus. Some campus would rather to be busy, filled with buildings on the campus providing some secure feelings to students who would prefer that. It depends on which university would feel that their students would like better, some preferring more green space or crowed with buildings.

Campus Sustainability: Sustaining Our Terrapin Environment. UMD, 2010. Web. 6 April 2010.

This website provides several links which includes Gardening, Campus Master Plan, Department of Environmental Safety, Dining Services (Green Dining), Environmental Stewardship Guidelines, Management, Maryland Cooperative Extension, Recycling, Student Affairs (Environment Matters), Terp impact, and Transportation Services (Green Commuting). There were also several more links that is not mentioned here. It greatly focuses on how the University of Maryland is going green by buildings, dining, gardening, recycling and etc.

Gallaudet University. GU, 1995. Web. 6 April 2010.

This website is a general website for the Gallaudet University. It explains what this University offers and what information is provided. You can look at what majors Gallaudet University offer, you can see what the campus looks like, you can find out who’s the administration staff, or you can find out the office hours of different buildings. You can find out so many things just by looking at this website. This website basically explains how the university provide excellent bilingual education for deaf and hard of hearing undergraduate students here at Gallaudet.

Markel, Tabitha. University of Maryland, College Park. MD. 2 April 2010. Guest Lecture.

Tabitha Markel is a great friend to my group partner- Jessica Israel. She is a student at the University of Maryland majoring in Criminal Justice and is currently a junior. She took us on a tour around the campus, showing us so many things; we did not even cover half of the campus. It is a huge university so we all were overwhelmed with what is offered there. She said that there are 40 deaf students at the university out of 36,000 students who attend to the university. It also was brought up that it is very hard to make friends and she has about two or three close friends. She was very sweet and showed us what we should see on the campus. Provided us information that helped us greatly for our project.

The University of Maryland. UMD, 2010. Web. 6 April 2010.

This website is awesome, providing such detailed information about the university itself. Ranging from admission information to athletics. Information are so detailed that they have news on the front page keeping people updated with what is going on in the university. It also has information on the side keeping the students and people everywhere updated about what is coming up at the university. I did not have to try hard to find the information I needed because they gave us pretty much easy access to information I would want to find.