Should Students Be Forced to Look Presentable?

I have mixed feelings about this. PQC's dress code is going to be more controversial than the other recent dress code debates, as this one applies to students outside of their class activities (as opposed to Morehouse & Hampton).

I agree that something like this will help distinguish the college and promote a professional atmosphere, but students might find it overly restrictive to wear dress shirt & slacks during all business hours (M-F 8a-5p).

Then again, that's exactly what most of the students will be doing once they graduate.

Not sure where I stand on this one.

Students should want to look presentable at all times. They shouldn't have to be forced. However, the hip hop genre has defined a new sense of presentable so the students need to be re-schooled. Students today are far too laid back to be desirable in the work force. Coaches make their players suit up for games, why shouldn't professors and administrators require the same for their classes? I am in total agreement with the President of Paul Quinn, Coach Carter, Joe Clark, Coach Boone, the Hampton Administration and all of the others who require our children to be presentable at all times.

I definitely agree with a some sort of dress code. Companies are looking at colleges from every angle and attire is one of them. The attendance I agree with as well, but those students who can learn the content without attending class could be candidates for mainly online courses.The issue was some students were passing classes without attending 1/3 of the time. This struck a cord with some faculty and students.

Why not dress for success to achieve nothing less? If you are in college you should wear more than a fitted, hootie or low cuts. Wearing business attire is what lay ahead for some and why not get use to it. Why do some want to go out and look like you are in your leisure time at your house?

My girlfriend, who is a Vice President at a major bank, acted as a company representive at a major career fair at Delaware State. To her shock and disappointment, she was greeted by interested seniors wearing old prom dresses, jeans, "party" sandals" and white "tees". Those who at least tried to look the part, came in wearing their old "church clothes" 3 sizes too small. Whats worse, is the dreaded time when the infamous HBCU interns show up every summer at major corporations dressed rediculously. Putting it mildly, the best and the brightest of our HBCU interns come into the office place looking a GHETTO MESS. I can recall one intern entering the building with slippers on! Why is this - you may ask? Many students have not been trained on what is appropriate dress. They have no concept of proper business dress attire. Many are not even accustomed to purchasing business wear. Therefore, requiring that students look presentable during school hours is a wonderful idea. It is completely unfair to allow our students to continue to enter into the workforce completely unprepared and unpresentable.

I can understand having a business casual dress code for one or two days out ot the week, but everday??? That's a bit much.. When students go to class, they want to be comfortable. They already have to sit thru a long class but then to have to do it uncomfortably..i dont see how a dress code will really change the tone of the campus..it's the people that need to change ultimately.