Writing Culture at Kean

The students of Kean University, in my opinion, are made up of many diverse groups of individuals.  During the day, you will find students whose main goal is to attend school and fulfill the requirements for graduation.  They may still live at home or have some to little responsibilities but school.  On the other extreme their are students that attend school after a long day a work in the hopes to complete a degree to further their career.  These individuals may have families, financial responsibilities and or a lot of baggage they drag with them to class.  What both these groups have in common is the commitment to complete a degree.  In order to do this, their style of writing lends itself to be more professional.
Professional writing at Kean University like in many other colleges, involve fulfilling requirements.  Essays are written in order to achieve the specifications of the professor.  Topic are given and the students respond by completing the necessary research that is expected by the professor. 
Professional writing is more direct and less forgiving.  Grammar and style are expected to adhere to college standards.  The use of creative writing is not the norm in most classes but a type of reflection has been adopted in courses to give students the opportunity to enhance their writing skills.
There are some students at Kean who still prescribe to the old norms of enlightenment.  These students do take the time to write for leisure and self improvement but I think the percentage of these students is very low.  I have been here at Kean since 2004 and all my colleagues that I have had the pleasure to take classes with have written countless essays to fulfill the course requirement.  The essay are perfect in grammar, research and style with little opinions as possible unless the opinions are peer reviewed ones.  These opinions are held in great regard by college professors here at Kean.  I guess what else should be expected by the students at Kean.  We come to Kean to learn and become something more then who we are now.  This change requires some change in our aspects of learning and writing.  Writing professionally is part of that change.