Academic elitism

BSN Bachelor of Science in Nursing According to The Mosby 's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health professions (2012), the BSN is “an academic degree awarded on satisfactory completion of a 4-year course of study in a college or university”. Nurses with their baccalaureate degrees have the elementary knowledge of the processes of research and evidence-based practice. They are able to critically apprise research material and apply it in practice. They can also assist with research (American…

Is a University degree necessary to succeed in life? The literal meaning of the word success, which originated from the Latin verb succedere, is accomplishment of an aim or purpose. However, the definition of success might vary from person to person. This is why it is very difficult to answer the claim that a person needs a university education to be successful in life because success in life means different things to different people. For a youngster, success might mean having a lot of money…

High school graduation is an important milestone in the lives of most American teenagers. At the same time, for many young people graduation also represents the first step in their educational advancement as they prepare to go on to college. Many will start their college education at the community college level, while others will go directly into a four-year institution. How do students and their families make this important decision? After doing some research, students may discover that…

A career as a public service worker requires a dedication to helping people within the community and advancing that community to make it a better place for all those who live within it. This requires a responsibility that both challenges and rewards those who choose to work as a part of this industry. For these reasons, I would be honored to earn my Executive Master of Public Administration degree, so that I may enhance the contribution to my own community and better serve the people who are a…

I am a sophomore who has learned a lot of useful knowledge and loves my life in UC Davis. Yet, I am writing to point out problems with the quarter system. Similarl to many aggies, in my first college year, I had a hard time adapting to the university life because of the quarter system. To succeed in university, every UC student must spend a lot of time adapting this depressive and painful system. However, after acclimating this schedule, students still need to bear massive stress and many…

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…

College life is caricatured as endless keg stands and carefree one night stands. Generations of American teens have been raised on Hollywood’s depiction of the college experience: fraternity parties, tailgating at football games, sharing clothes with roommates, studying abroad, and meeting the love of your life through the stacks in the library. This idyllic version of college is not reality. The first college in the United States, Harvard College, was founded in 1636. According to Harvard…

Academic honesty is a cornerstone of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) student-athlete model. It is based upon the view that student-athletes will satisfy and meet the same academic standards as their non-athlete students. Unfortunately, academic fraud continues to be an ongoing problem on a majority of NCAA campuses. Student-athletes are student’s first, athletes second. There should be no special treatment for these students just because they play a particular sport. In…

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…

Is College Really Worth The Cost? In “What is a College Education Really Worth?” Naomi Schaefer Riley claims that a college education these days is just considered as a credential needed to prove your skill level, and is not worth the money you are paying for it. Instead she suggests that students graduating high school should be put through a program similar to an apprenticeship, where they can learn all the necessary skills to be effective at the job they are trying to receive. Although,…