Advanced Placement

Higher education institutions have adopted diversity affirmative action policies that seek to enhance the diversity of their student body. Diversity affirmative action also helps individuals to become more tolerant within a college campus because it exposes people to a dissimilar student body that includes cultures and ideas that are different from their own. Affirmative action also helps prevent individuals or groups excluded from opportunities on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender. The…

How does the distance you live from the University affect your study options? If you have to travel long distances, what costs are involved? If moving away from home, what will be your living arrangements and costs? I currently live in Claremont with my parents. If I am admitted into the MBBS, I may have to reside in Burnie or Launceston for the fourth and fifth years of the course. If I were to be placed at the Launceston Clinical School I would have to seek my own accommodation and catering,…

The latest standardized testing reveals the ugly truth for Wood County Schools: Proficiency in Math: From 3rd grade to 11th grade – a steady drop from 47% to 21%. Going into their senior year, 21% of Wood County students are proficient in math after being in the system for 13 years! Proficiency in Science: Average proficiency in science, 4th, 6th, and 10th grades is 41% Proficiency in Reading/Language Arts: Going into their senior year, 51% are proficient In the midst of this deepening…

I have long been fascinated by the way politics and economics influence individuals and how decisions made by political leaders can change the course of history. I am intrigued by the historical development of political and economic thought, as evidenced when studying the history of China. Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom provided me perspective on the connectivity of economic and political freedoms needed to strengthen democratic institutions. I also enjoyed Thomas Piketty’s Capital in…

being more imperative than knowledge. In a brief interview around the Cypress Lake High School’s hallways, seventy-five percent of surveyed juniors and seniors reported feeling unprepared for the future. Cristina Hernandez, Class President and Advanced Placement (AP) student, stated that, “I had to be very independent mid-junior year, I always cared for school and doing well but I never knew that school was an investment for my future or that I needed certain things to get into college;…

expanded the BSW program, and decided to accept me. The field of social work will allow me to enjoy having a career motivating, and helping others to become self-sufficient. During my first semester of my field placement I had the opportunity to intern at two different placements. My first placement was at the City Youth of Ministries, and my current one is the Beck Pride Center for veterans. My former supervisor resigned due to personal reasons; consequently, I was upset with the adjustment at…

Concordia University – Portland Concordia University is a private, non-profit liberal arts university that caters to Christian students, but welcomes students of any faith. Concordia University is nestled in the beautiful city of Portland, Oregon. Portland is considered to be one of the greenest, versatile and most eclectic cities in the country. Concordia University is located in northwestern Portland, which features unique restaurants, art galleries, eccentric shops and seasonal events.…

for Health care workers. Both have varied approaches to how they educate students and how they keep a record of nurses’ skill level and history. This directly impacts the quality of care given by nurses to patients with Australia being far more advanced and efficient in its approach towards healthcare. The main difference is that Australian nurses go through extensive study and clinical practice at a university to become a registered nurse. A registered nurse can practice without the…

College Admission Frenzie Parents, students, and alumni, all have one situation in common: college was conducted into their minds early in life. Starting in the early 2000’s, college degrees seemed to become more necessary to acquire jobs in America. Because of this, parents seemed to influence their children to start learning more about college at a younger age. A pro to this idea, is that the student gains more knowledge about the necessity, and importance, of a college degree. However, the…

If someone had asked me what I had wanted to be a year ago I would have said a sports medicine specialist. Ask me what I want to do now and I might say a pediatric psychiatrist. My interest of being a sports medicine specialist could have started at a young age with my avid interest in sports. I started off joining ballet at age six, then to doing soccer at age eight, and then to cheer and swim. Soccer interested me for a while, but by the time I was fourteen the sport no longer appealed to me.…