Academia

Age related to academic success. The relationship between academic success and age is very important to know. There is a very clear line between both the successor and the age of student. Researcher Wolfle, J. found that age was very valuable when looking at freshman taking a first level mathematics course (Wolfle,2012) . Traditional aged students are found to be 17-22, and Non-traditional students in college are found to be 23 years old and older (Wolfle, 2012). It has been found through…

The responsibilities of a Master are those individuals, or students who take ownership of their actions by demonstrating academic honesty and integrity. The student attend and participate in classes, seminars, on time. I believe the responsibilities of a Master student are students who complete all assigned work in a timely fashion with attention to quality of work. The student goes beyond their effort to avoid making excuses for their behavior and actions. The responsibilities of a…

Rules and regulations shape the world in which we all live. There are rules for the road, for buildings, and the list goes on and on. This list also includes an honor code that students, faculty and staff must follow. Many schools have created their own code to ensure that the honesty and integrity that the school values are projected by those that are associated with their campus. Hofstra University has developed their own honor code to protect the university itself, and its students and…

I am writing to you today to ask you to please allow me to meet Satisfactory Academic Progress standards. The reason why I am not currently meeting these standards is because I have exceeded the University’s allowed 60-semester hour limit for a single Masters degree. Now I cannot receive financial aid, which is crucial for me, as I do not have any other source to continue my studies. First of all, had I been aware of this limit, I would have begun this process about a year ago to avoid having…

When people think of the term "student-athlete", they assume that the student-athlete is a student first and an athlete second. In some college athletics, this is not the case. Most big time college athletes consider themselves more of athletes than students. It doesn't matter if it's girls sports or guys sports; both of them are equivalent in how important they are in the colleges' perspective. Most colleges are divided into three groups for sports: Division 1, Division 2, and Division 3. D1…

Risk and Protective Factors Risk Factors Risk appears at every transition in Manuelito’s life, he began to pick up several risk factors from early childhood years through late adolescence, which includes individuality factors, family factors, environmental factors, school factors and association with peers. In Manuelito’s early life through to adolescent years he was exposed to violence and conflict in his family. His father was an alcoholic who was often violent when intoxicated. He…

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” ― Albert Einstein (“Albert Einstein Quote”) It is commonly known that academic integrity is based on six basic principles that can be applied to any aspect of a person’s life. By striving to achieve the ethical standard that comes from academic integrity a person should show that they value “honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage” (“ICAI”). Even though cheating and plagiarism…

David Presti, an educator of University of California at Berkeley, suspected that his undergrads were submitting counterfeited papers. "It's so effortless to cheat now," Dr. Presti said. "Be that as it may, this expanding digitalization is additionally making it less demanding to discover con artists out" (Kopytoff 2000). Through a site called Plagiarism.org, he could locate that, little more than 14% of his understudies copied in any event some of their expositions. Because of expanded…

I came to the U.S 6 years ago with hopes and dreams of a better education. As a first-generation student, with parents who don’t understand the language very well, I’ve been on my own to succeed academically. My biggest obstacles that I encountered were the language and cultural barriers. When I first came, I was able to speak English at a basic level. My reading ability was poor and I could hardly understand academic vocabularies. I also experienced a tremendous culture-shock. I had problem…

What are the elements of a thesis? A thesis is a writer’s main or controlling idea. A thesis statement however, is a writer’s position in a sentence or two and serves as the documents mission statement. According to this week’s readings (Connelly, M. (2004 ).), (Connelly, 2004), there are six elements that make up a thesis. The first element is; a thesis is generally stated in a single sentence, meaning that the writer will be able to focus on the core of the paper. The second element is; a…