Academic advising

The author of the article is Hunter Rawling, the president of the Association of American Universities and a former president of Cornell University and the University of lowa. The issue that Hunter is discussing is that people are treating college like a commodity. He explains how getting a college education is more than just buying a degree or spending money. According to Hunter, college is a great experience where as a student you don’t only get to learn about what you want to be in life but…

Passionately Curious Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Have you ever felt that adrenaline rush through your body increasing the mind’s interest of a topic you were freshly introduced to? I feel that passion over the topic of the human body and the medical world and I become determined to learn more. I am interested in the foreign, universal language of medical terminology and of the hands-on skills of assisting a doctor. I strongly feel the desire to gain the knowledge and skills to become…

learn to sift through all the information already out there on their topic, one useful way to start is by google searching scholarly and academic journals. After narrowing one’s journal search to journals useful to their research, it is beneficial to look up the credentials of each journal to be sure they are reliable. For example, for this paper I researched academic journals and popular news sites on the effects of positive and negative reinforcement on children in the classroom. I chose…

My Motivation: What motivates me the most to pursue a college degree is that I will be the first person in my family to receive one. My grandmother is the backbone behind this motivation because she was always making sure that academics came first in my life. There was rarely a day that I would come home and she would not ask me questions about my homework, asking what I learned in school, or even looked over my homework. As I got older, she made sure I was a part of a college prep program…

in school are other often overlooked incentives that could tempt desperate high school students to seize the opportunity for an easy shortcut on assignments or exams. When one thinks of cheating, students who don 't care about school and/or lack academic drive may primarily come to mind. One could argue that those students…

How to Become a Paralegal So you are interested in becoming a paralegal, excellent choice! To thrive in this business you most definitely must be a detail-oriented person with an interest in the law. You will be the liason between your attorney and the outside world so you must bring exceptional standards and ethics to the table. You will be responsible for essential day-to-day tasks, being responsible for strict deadlines, research, knowledge of the court systems, handling of confidential…

Rimer discusses the issue on plagiarism and how students deal with it in their academic life. In it, it explains how plagiarism is an easy act of dishonesty, but is also one of the hardest acts to avoid. Simply put, if something isn’t put in one’s own words, then that is considered plagiarism, as the action is theft. Whether an excerpt was from a book or a source off the internet, plagiarism can be very destructive to academic works. With an increase in homework and less time to do work, many…

That fits the pattern for "clustering," a term that describes situations in which 25 percent or more of an athletic team are in the same major”. Here we can clearly see athletes are enrolled for majors that are easily abled to get them through the academic machinery. Leaving college many of these athletes are left, “with the lack of a meaningful degree, which it is nearly impossible for many athletes to get a college-level job once they graduate”, Trahan said. Basically athletes are not using…

A welfare state is defined as: “a system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions, and other benefits.” Both the United States of American and Iceland are considered welfare states, however the role each government plays in regards to healthcare is monumentally different. The dissimilar approaches to healthcare can be explained by the regime each country follows. Iceland is a…

Technical College Tuition Should Be Paid Through Taxes for students That Maintain 3.0 GPA For the Students that maintain a gpa 3.0 plus the first two years at a community technical college should be pain through the taxes. And yes we will have more taxes to pay at the end, but more student will be able to go to school, and education is something that can’t be done just fast, and quick so that’s why I think its good idea to have our state to pay for the first two years of technical college so…