on a daily basis is the lack of students understanding the importance of higher education. The Alexander County community at-large, consistently devalues higher education through their attitudes and actions. According to the US Census Quick Facts (2008-2011), “Only eleven percent of Alexander County citizens have a bachelor’s degree or higher education, while twenty-seven percent of North Carolina residents hold a bachelor’s degree or higher” (p.3). It is imperative that parents and guardians…
semester covered a multitude of topics. The topics covered included education and school, gender, media, and globalization. The readings that I most enjoyed were the first ones assigned which included “A Question of Honor”, “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age”, and “The Myth of Inferiority”. The reason why these readings interested me the most was because they fell under my favorite topic of education. Education is one of the subjects I find the most interesting. There are so…
to College level education for a student? Can the way a professor instructs his/ her class play a defining roll in a students learning experience? How can certain course models affect a students transition from High school to College? By answering these questions we can better understand the toll students experience via the transition from secondary to higher education. Wingate states in his work “A Framework for Transition: Supporting? And ‘Learning to Learn’ in Higher Education” that "when a…
Jr. (2013). Homeland Security Education: A Way Forward. Homeland Security Affairs Vol 9, p1-11. Retrieved from: http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu Homeland Security profession and education has continue to be of critical need since September 11, 2001 but it must be revamped to meet the changing needs. Therefore, the authors conducted a research to determine the trajectory based on evidence. The…
Education across Borders My mother, Nasanbuyan Naimaa, was born in Ulziit soum, Mongolia on April 25th, 1975 into a simple family in the countryside. Her father was a driver and a journalist and her mother was a veterinarian. She had two older brothers, three older sisters and one littler sister. Although her family led a modest lifestyle in the countryside, her parents encouraged higher education. The importance of education stayed with her, which affected her decisions that ultimately…
College will allow me to challenge myself in areas I would not be comfortable. This foundation will allow me to give back to my community and communities around the world in ways that would be highly effective. Growing up in Hartford, I always saw the importance of giving back to the community. Having tutors come to voluntarily help me with areas of knowledge I struggled with and being a person, who benefited from things such as the backpack program, opened my eyes at a young age. Experiencing…
achieve a degree through higher learning, there are multiple factors contributing to the dropout rates, not only in the United States, but also in other countries throughout the world. Some of the contributing factors are financial, time management, family, educational preparedness, and mental health issues. Initially, mental health is a…
As I have seen many benefits to this approach. The three most know benefits are higher understanding, more opportunity, and a supporting factor to better succeeding in their profession. All three of these important benefits open the mindset of a successful employee. With a higher understanding of education, I believe a student would achieve the ability to better time management, gain a border mindset, and more education to further apply themselves in a profession they are pursuing. The concept…
In Quintilian’s On the Teaching of Speaking and Writing, Quintilian stressed the importance of a proper upbringing to become a successful member of Roman society. He also stressed that people needed to continue learning beyond one’s childhood to become a prominent public figure. The traits outlined by Quintilian were not viewed as the ideal method back then, and weren’t implemented into the educational system right away; even though many concepts like: repetition, habit, and imitation seem…
and accomplishment. While there are a variety of means to achieving such principles, one of the most commonly chosen paths is secondary education. Over 65% of recent high school graduates chose to go to college for at least some amount of time. Many colleges and universities across the nation use what people have coined liberal education. This type of education is supposed to provide a broad base on all subject matters. In an attempt to not only provide students with more knowledge but to also…