Okanagan University College

According to the Huffington Post, nearly four out of five college students are working a part-time job while studying for their degrees. For several reasons, these students need to acquire cash and they do so by obtaining jobs around or on their campus. However, more often than not, students struggle with keeping their GPA up while putting in hours at their part-time job. Students like Keisha M. Carr, are taking up to fifteen credits a semester-the equivalent of five classes-all while putting in…

Academic advising is an essential part to a college student’s life. Without it, most students would not know which direction to go with their respected academic fields or which classes to take in order to achieve the associate’s degree here at the College of Southern Maryland. But there is a problem with academic advising not only here at the Leonardtown Campus, but the La Plata and Prince Frederick campus’ as well. The majority of the time when a student goes in to see the academic advisor,…

pursuing a college degree. The college degree I plan on receiving is a bachelor’s in arts and sciences, majoring in Criminal Justice. It not only improves your quality of life, but also benefits your life in endless ways. There are several people who go to work everyday miserable because they do not have the same passion as they did before. My lifetime goal is to be able to work at job that I am passionate about; a college degree will get there. The hard four years that I put in college are…

undertaken after high school. It has become the standard requirement for economic progress as it provides people with necessary skills and capabilities to survive in an increasingly competitive, global economy. In Australia, tertiary education such as universities and TAFEs has changed throughout its establishments by introducing and imposing various reforms that provides beneficial and detrimental effects for tertiary students. A new reform to further improve the current model has surfaced.…

residents on a college campus. They are responsible for making sure that residents have a fun, healthy and safe college experience. As an RA, there are several meetings and events that one has to attend and plan, including a weekly module meeting, small group meetings with other RA and larger group meetings with all Residence Life staff. We also are required to plan monthly events for our residents that promote holistic wellness. Because RA’s are representatives of the university in multiple…

College never seemed like a possibility for me. However, God recently orchestrated events in my life that have sparked a desire for knowledge and academic accomplishment. I began working at Valley Christian Elementary School in the fall of 2014. To work in a Christian environment has been a blessing and a life changing experience. I work side by side with educated Christian men and women who work tirelessly and faithfully to support the mission “In everything God is preeminent”. This dedication…

third grade at the time, were sitting at the kitchen table one evening doing homework. Having a question about his homework, one started to ask me for help when his brother interrupted him and said, “Don’t ask Dad; ask Mom, she is smart; she went to college.” At the time, I did not pay much attention to the comment, and I gladly took the opportunity of not having to help with homework to go back to whatever it was I was doing. Today, I would want that conversation to go a bit differently. We…

turmoil. Drugs, poverty, crime and mental illness were plaguing society around this time (Evans & Reason, 2001). There was also a lack of trust in higher education after the political uprising of the previous decades. Funding was sparse and many universities lacked the funding desperately needed to operate their programs. Access to higher education was now available to people it was traditionally not in the past such as, minority students and adult students (Evans & Reason, 2001). Judith…

own research. I found that is was started at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Lori Pompa. The program was established to bring together college student and incarcerated men and women to explore and learn about issues of crime, justice, inequality, and other issues of social concern all behind prison walls. They found it fascinating once I explain the concept of the class and that there are over fifty colleges and universities participating in this…

In leadership, there are many types of approaches. Leaders try to find out what types of problems there are and understand the situation. This all depends on behaviour because all workers do not have the same behaviour. According to Hannagan (2002, pp.36-38), ‘Leadership is the process of motivating other people to act in particular ways in order to achieve specific goals…they are judge on what they do’. Our leader selects some worker for training who is behaving well to leader. Than leader take…