Academic degree

A college education is more important - but more expensive - than ever before. In a society where a higher education is the key to opportunity, it is becoming increasingly important to obtain a college degree in order to live a successful and comfortable life. However, affordable college tuition is not a reality in the United States. The cost of college tuition sometimes prevents otherwise capable students from ever reaching their full potential. Many other graduates will leave college with debt…

positions themselves for long term financial success, broadens their scope of critical thinking and problem solving skills, and opens up the opportunities to new subjects and possibilities. However, a person who does not pursue a four year college degree can have a stabilized financial success, strong critical thinking and problem solving skill through real world application, and intrinsic happiness by following what an individual is instinctively good at. To weight out these two world’s…

This is the problem that arises from years of oppression. When children are made to believe that they will not amount to anything, that is what they are breed to believe. The deprivation of the right education takes away from the belief of the ability to achieve. The years of this deprivation has resulted in the loss of hope. This is proven in Davis’ poem when she states how intelligence is seen as a white trait. As the government continues to deprive minorities of basic funding for education,…

Leaders possess integrity. An ability to be transparent, honest, and reliable are key to a leader’s success. A leader must be competent, decisive and accountable. He or she must be able to make and stand behind their decisions regardless of the result. I believe leaders are only as great as the team they lead. A great leader is experienced and secure in who they are and are visionaries. Leaders effectively communicate and guide passionate individuals with various abilities and personalities by…

college degree you are able to receive a higher paying job than you would with just a high school degree. With higher education you will learn life lessons and skills that will stick with you for the rest of your life. Pursuing higher education is hard in many ways because students are feeling pressure at home and even the backgrounds they come from can make things difficult. Even college itself can be extremely difficult and students often struggle. However, the end result is a degree which…

whole lot of studying, but to be a researcher in psychology you 'll need a doctoral degree! For just being a psychologist you’ll only need to have a PhD. There are 4 years of college then there is 5 years of graduate school. As for a doctoral psychologist you will need a PsyD, including for clinical, school, and health it will require a 1 year internship which is part of the doctoral program. The Psy.D is a clinical degree and is often used for practical work, such as examinations which is more…

shared with MOOCs in unprecedented (Billsberry, 2013). Prestigious colleges such as MIT, Harvard, and Stanford have partnered with course delivery companies such as Coursera, edX, and Udacity to provide MOOCs of the same courses that their paying, degree-students take on campus (O’Conner, 2014). The vision is to offer high quality education to everyone (O’Conner, 2014). From…

High Tuition and High Expectations: The Consumerist Outlook Tuition increases in recent years have caused society to develop a consumerist outlook on education and has introduced cost-benefit factors which leads students to question whether they are getting the total value of education for what they invest. The real question focuses on expectations: how their expectations shift when they pay more, what exactly those expectations may be, and how these expectations effect student success and…

In the last decades the cost of college has dramatically escalated through the roof, and with it the necessity of possessing a degree to be competent in most jobs. Today many people have decided to not attend college and discourage from attending because of the high costs. What they do not realize it that not pursuing a higher education makes them fall behind in today’s society. College does imply a lot of work and, money to be successful and that is probably a reason that discourages people…

income; however, various factors should be considered before choosing a degree. Moreover, the authors clarify that while the value of college outweighs the costs associated with earning a degree, just any college degree is not the best investment one could make to ensure the completion and success of their education. The authors also explain that the value of college can outweigh the costs associated with completing a degree. Owen and Sawhill emphasized that college improves certain values, such…