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Unit 7 Campus Life Word bank embark on 从事；致力于 drop out 辍学 career prospect 职业前景 benefaction 捐款；善款 favor 支持；赞同 expenditure 开支；花销 charitable organization 慈善机构 select 高级的；优等的 for the most part 多半；在极大程度上 under the authority of 在…的管理（或控制）之下 lifeguard 救生员 bathing place 游泳场所 Unit 7 Campus Life Higher Education in America In the United States nowadays, more than a third of all students are women. Although many women who have received higher education do not spend the whole of their lives following careers for which their education has prepared them, it is accepted that the benefits of university career are useful. With so great a proportion of the young people entering higher education there is a problem of maintaining academic standards, and the process can be painful. Half of those who embark on higher studies fail to graduate. The number who drop out after one or two years is disturbingly large, though there is evidence that even incomplete university study gives a person better career prospects than none at all. On the other hand, one in five of all who receive bachelor’s degrees go on to take higher degrees. All this effort in America’s higher education is very expensive. Some of the costs come from fees and benefactions, particularly towards research, but most have to be paid from public funds. Parents favor big expenditures on Unit 7 Campus Life Higher Education in America higher education; a wider public opinion favors them for idealistic and cultural reasons, and because of the supposed value of education as investment by society. The first universities were developed by private charitable organizations. The private universities are still very important, and most of the best-known institutions, like Harvard, Yale and Princeton, are private. Most of the principal state universities have between 10,000 and 30,000 students, and some have increased rapidly in the past few years. Private colleges