Education Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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suitcasing v. Suitcasing A traditional method of delivering classroom training to groups of workers at remote locations. All materials required to conduct the training are packaged and either sent or hand-carried to the training location where they are used by a “traveling” trainer. [English Business Education] [full cite] (Aug. 8, 2007)

summer melt n. The largest-ever freshman class has caused a housing crunch at Penn State University.…“We expect that we will see a couple hundred more students change their minds over the summer.” While the admissions department waits for the effects of what is known as “summer melt,” the housing department is trying another tactic. [English Education] [full cite] (Jul. 7, 2006)

summer melt n. By late spring, millions of high-school seniors have mailed in deposits to confirm their college destinations. Some of these “confirmations,” however, will be broken. A student will be belatedly admitted to a school he prefers; a family will re-examine its college nest egg and judge it too small for a tuition omelet; little Jack will decide he would rather spend the year hitchhiking the Maghreb from Marrakesh to Mahdia. The folks who work in admissions call these defections “the summer melt.” [English Education Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2006)

summer melt n. Because of overcrowding problems in previous years, the college reduced the number of offers of admission from 3,486 in 2003 to 3,366 this year. However, this year the college’s admissions office experienced an unexpected low “summer melt” of just 26 students. The summer melt refers to the number of students who initially enroll at William and Mary after being admitted and later decide to attend a different college or university. In 2003, the summer melt was 57 students. Two years ago, it was 43 students. [English Education Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2006)

summer melt n. Bryant said that, typically, some students change their minds during the summer. However, he said, he is confident that the university will not lose significant numbers to what he calls “summer melt.” [English Education Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2006)

summer slide n. Yes, many children fall almost three months behind in math and reading skills over the summer. This phenomenon is so well known that educators even have a special name for it. They call it the “the summer slide.” Because of the summer slide teachers often invest the first two months of every school year focusing on lesson plans that help students regain skills they lost over the summer. [English Education] [full cite] (Jun. 21, 2007)

summer thaw n. Many schools see a “summer thaw,” when students who have decided in May to go to a certain school change their minds before September, he said. This can create a drop in the number of freshmen actually registering. [English Education Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2006)

super senior n. Often called “super seniors,” many students stay on long after their fourth year is up trying to get into classes, changing majors or just trying to squeeze out every last college experience. [English Education] [full cite] (May. 1, 2006)

super senior n. I say super senior as I was in my 5th year of college. [English Education] [full cite] (May. 1, 2006)

super senior n. John Wilcox, a fifth-year “super senior” at the University of Alaska Anchorage, has a shaggy haircut, ripped jeans and an eyebrow ring. He describes his spiritual persuasion as druid and wears sandals without socks exclusively. Even in the snow. [English Education] [full cite] (May. 1, 2006)

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