BAHASA INGGRIS 1

COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OR
INSTITUTE?
Americans use the term "college students" to mean students either in
colleges or universities. Not only that, Americans almost never say "going off
to university" or "when I was in university." That sounds British. Instead, they
say "going off to college" and "when I was in college.“
Colleges and universities have many things in common. Both offer
undergraduate degrees in the arts and sciences, for example. And both can
help prepare young people to earn a living.
But many colleges do not offer graduate studies. Another difference is that
universities are generally bigger. They offer more programs and do more
research.
Another place of higher education, especially in technical areas,
is an institute, like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Yet even an institute of technology can offer a wide choice of
programs and activities. M.I.T. says that seventy-five percent of
freshmen come there with a strong interest and involvement in
the arts.
Modern universities developed from those of Europe in the
Middle Ages. The word "university" came from the Latin
universitas, describing a group of people organized for a
common purpose.
"College" came from collegium, a Latin word with a similar
meaning. In England, colleges were formed to provide students
with places to live. Usually each group was studying the same
thing. So college came to mean an area of study.
The first American universities divided their studies into a number of areas
and called each one a college. This is still true.
A college can also be a part of a university. For example, Harvard College is
the undergraduate part of Harvard University.
Programs in higher learning can also be called schools, like a school of
engineering or a medical school within a college or university. You know,
learning all these terms is an education in itself.
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE?
A big difference involves money. Public colleges and universities
charge for an education just like private schools. But state schools
cost less because they get money from the states that started them to
educate local citizens. As a result, out-of-state and international
students usually pay more than state residents, at least the first year.
The state with the most residents, almost forty million, is California.
Its systems of two-year and four-year colleges and universities are
among the largest in the world.
But the example we are going to focus on today is to the north of
California, in a much smaller state on the West Coast: Oregon.
The University of Oregon, located in Eugene, is one of the campuses in
the Oregon University System. The cost for undergraduates this year
is six thousand dollars for state residents. Housing is an additional
eight thousand. Nonresidents pay the same for housing -- but almost
twenty thousand dollars for tuition and fees.
Let's see how these numbers compare to a private college in
Oregon.
Lewis and Clark College in Portland has four thousand students,
compared to twenty thousand at the University of Oregon.
Housing costs eight hundred dollars more than at the state
school. But the big difference is tuition. The published price at
Lewis and Clark is almost thirty-four thousand dollars.
Yet Lewis and Clark is one of the few American colleges to offer
financial aid for international students. Each year it awards
financial aid to twenty students from other countries. And it
says the average award last year was nineteen thousand
dollars. That would make Lewis and Clark cheaper for
international students than the University of Oregon.
But, of course, prices alone do not say anything about the
quality of a school or the value of an education.
TASKS
Task 1
Each group makes 5 questions based on the text!

Task 2
Take turn to answer questions from other group!

Task 3
Translate into Bahasa Indonesia! (group task)