Faculty

The courses are taken to expand knowledge, but to get closer to a degree. College life for the students is more about partying and exploring oneself rather than learning. Faculty are vacant in their academic life with students more often than not also, Edmundson discloses. Faculty can be too caught up in in bettering themselves for their personal resume, to actually teach the way they should. Which leads Edmundson to say that neither student nor professor put themselves into…

Philip K. Dick, a well-known author with many scholarly related awards, once said, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn 't go away.” When reflecting on philosophical questions and their reality that one asks on a daily basis, one must start by finding the origin of the questions through several readings. These readings involved both, Descartes’ Meditation and Other Metaphysical Writings and Robert Nozick’s The Experience Machine. With close analysis, these two works of…

exploring Living Learning Communities. The benefits of having these communities are connecting students with similar interests. Within these communities, students live within the same house or wing of a building. The Resident Assistant connects with faculty and Peer Advisors to help students develop within their desired…

This article is written by Hochanadel and Finamore, as a collection of the recent researches and theories that associated with the fixed and growth mindset. It started from Duckworth’s observation on “grit”, something that could be observed in students who have the growth mindset and willing to take on challenges as learning experiences, and her experiment in West Point. And Dweck’s theory about students who believe their intelligence are fixed and cannot be improved, as he called “fixed…

demeaning to reduce the meaning of life to pleasure. To this (Mill 2017,p14) replies that human pleasures are many superior animalistic ones: once people are made aware of their higher faculties, they will never be happy to leave them uncultivated; thus happiness is a sign that we are exercising our higher faculties. It is true that some pleasures may be "base"; however, this does not mean that all of them…

with knowledge or experience of unethical faculty behavior reported a significantly lower overall program climate, as well as being less confident in the ability of their department to effectively identify or address issues related to faculty competence (January, Meyerson, Reddy, Docherty & Klonoff, n.d.) Students that could identify at least one ethical violation believed that, “these violations contributed to a greater loss of faith in graduate program faculty and created more negative…

University will allow, a viable faculty organization, and responsible faculty participation in the development of academic programs and policies. With respect to students, the Board declares it to be its intention to provide the opportunity for each to realize the highest potential, to formulate and enforce reasonable rules governing student conduct, and to give due consideration to the opinions of students on matters related directly to their interest…

Vee. Jackson University is in the process of opening the 21st-century University for the individual with all types of learning experiences. We would like to welcome you to the University. We are dedicated to helping each of you make the most of your first year. Through new student orientation, outreach, and other programs, our office will keep you informed and connect you with resources to assist you to make a successful transition to life at Vee. Jackson. Congratulations on your decision…

OPTIONS/ALTERNATIVE AVAILABLE FOR THIRD TOP ISSUE: The option that Shikara said that Lakeland College must do in order to keep turnover low is to treat their employees and faculty members correctly. Just like in normal businesses, the college needs to create a differentiation method to retain and make candidates chose their institution over other competitors. The way Lakeland College can do this is through benefits, pay, or the overall campus and organization atmosphere that the college has…

I enthusiastically seek to further my interest in neuroscience through the Biological Basis of Behavior (BBB) program at the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts and Sciences, which has the diverse faculty, resources, and research to strongly support this interdisciplinary major. My passion for neuroscience stemmed first from an independent-study research project centered on bioethics, in which I studied brain imaging and the utilization of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging…