Bond University

The Killam Fellowships program would benefit me due to the challenging aspect of this learning opportunity. Reflecting back on my first year of university, I know that personal growth does not require a lot of time to develop if I am receptive to change and embrace challenges. As an out-of-province student, I encounter numerous inconveniences that I had not thought of initially. Through surmounting challenges, I have become adept at adapting to different situations. Interacting with people in a…

awkwardness in the room. I realize, when I do go to a college there's going to be a roommate that I don't know. By talking to my roommate, we started the build a mutual friendship. Then he started to introduced me to the people he knew, and we started to bond. By talking to people i became adjusted to the people I didn't know and realized that we had more in common than I thought. We all play football for ours respected school, and we were all from the…

Privilege, a priceless intangible notion that has categorized individuals as those who have and have not. Being a student at Marquette University has made this problem more evident to me on a day to day basis. Along with being a student, I am also categorized as a minority which in this school means segregation. This in one of the biggest problems that plague the campus because those who are not experiencing this problem, often times believe that it is nonexistent. In reality, racism roams…

without being raised in front of the television on a Saturday afternoon supporting my families favorite college. As I grew up I was drawn to the exhilarating spirit of the Wolverines. Hearing Alumni talk about how great their experience was at the University of Michigan it made me strive to earn my diploma as a Wolverine. As I started High School I tried to tell myself it would be a breeze. It wasn't, I struggled a lot. I felt like I could never achieve to academic standards that my future…

Democratic Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders has announced several proposals that involve raising money through taxes. Some of the subjects Sanders plans to target include youth unemployment, infrastructure, health care, but his most well-known policy he intends to implement is his College For All Act. This fiscal policy enacts a minuscule tax on Wall Street speculators to relieve students of the burden of paying for college. Currently, the cost of attending a public college, on average, is…

Throughout most of our life, people have been told that if they go to college and set our goals, they will achieve a prosperous future. Nowadays, High Schools are teaching students that they need to go to college in order to succeed in life, which is in fact highly inaccurate. Colleges have been around since the 1600s and through out the years, the cost for college has increased dramatically. Bernie Sanders quoted, “The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving…

Latino students share strong connections to their families. According to earlier studies on the Latino culture, “familism” is defined as the value and emotional bond Latinos have to their families (Valdes, 1996; Vega, 1995). Hernandez (2002) found that Latino students are emotionally and socially attached to their family members, which may include parents, siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. It is also the case that in the Latino culture, students share a household with extended…

Diffusion of Innovations The purpose of my capstone is the look at factors that determine the success of African-American males who attend rural colleges or universities. When you look at the national trends of graduation and completion rates of African-American males, they are lower than any other ethnic group. The new idea that I am purposing is that different, intrusiveness needs to occur for these students to transition successfully through college on to graduation to be success…

(NPHC) and is the Omega Epsilon Chapter at the University of Toledo. Their colors are royal purple and old gold and their national founding date is November 17, 1911. The fraternity also goes by other names like the (Ques or Da Bruhz). Some of the requirements are to have at least 30 credit hours and a GPA of 2.5 or higher. There were three founders Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman who were also undergraduates at Howard University. This fraternity has four main principles…

years ago I came to the ASU with the failure of applying for UCSB. And I promised to myself I am going to transfer to that school two years later. One year past, I get to know a group of friends and we have fun together; We travel together; We build bonds with each eventually. Some of them also share a similar goal like mine, transferring to other school which is one the reason brought us together at the beginning, but they all end up giving up. I can’t blame them because Tempe is a cosy place…