Higher Consciousness, Christ Consciousness and Jesus I received an email from a reader questioning people 's ability to connect with higher consciousness and claiming that I have yet to be mentored by the true God--Jesus Christ. "You claim to teach the secrets of the soul, success, "finding oneself," ascension, etc. I believe you 've left out an important step and have yet to be mentored by the true God; you only promote the self-god of new age. How can I tell? Because if you had met Him, you would speak of Him and tell others of His glory. We can only rise so far in our own wisdom and that 's due to a pre-existing and self-perfected curse...the very crux of mankind 's disconnect. It 's called sin, and the solution to this sin-curse is remedied…
Benefits of Higher Education: Why Students Should Attend College Many students throughout the years have debated whether or not college or another form of higher education is actually worth it. Some students make the decision to not attend a form of higher education, but just to continue straight on into a field of work. Other students make the informed decision to attend a college and receive a form of higher education. Both sides of this argument have valid points on why they feel that their…
Higher Education at a Cost College education should not be a privilege but a right to all Americans, “We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, in some of the great American universities and colleges was virtually free. Today, the cost unaffordable for working class families. Higher education must be a right - not just wealthy families,” (Sanders). Getting a high school diploma was a essential to contribute into society, “since the late 1800’s, the…
The Cracks of Higher Education Higher Education, a place where students are allowed to continue to be pushed through challenging material. This idea has recently came under fire during times where the burden of knowledge gets pushed further and further up the education system. This transfer has cause employers to not only look for degrees but nearly require them. The cost of this change has made some sort of Higher Education mandatory for a student to partake in. Although more schooling is not…
Why is higher education the key to success? People agree with the fact that higher education is the key to success; however there are still many people on the opposing side who believe higher education is not always the key to success, though there are people on the opposing side, there are many reasons why higher education is the key. Higher education offers more jobs to choose from, improving an individual’s quality of life; in fact, higher education offers degrees not just leading into a job…
When deciding whom to interview for this paper I first thought about what area of higher education I wanted to learn more about. After thinking of a few different individuals I decided to interview Sabrina Tapps-Fee, a Senior Admission Counselor and Coordinator of the Tour Guide program for the University of Iowa. I decided to interview Sabrina, because admissions is an area of higher education that really interests me. I knew Sabrina had a long history working in admissions and I was interested…
Deardorff, Wit, Heyl and Adams, stated in the reading that “Internationalization has been one of the most powerful and persuasive forces of work within higher education around the world during the last two decades (2012).” With the effects of Internationalization, administrators of higher learning must be capable and ready to assist the “powerful influence of the global context, prepared to track and understand the broadest global trends of higher education (Deardorff, et al., 2012).” In the…
Gilbert, C. K., & Heller, D. E. (2013). Access, Equity, and Community Colleges: The Truman Commission and Federal Higher Education Policy from 1947 to 2011. Journal Of Higher Education, 84(3), 417-443. Gilbert & Heller (2013) posits that the Truman Commission and Federal Education Policy has set out policy to ensure equal access to higher education for all students regardless of income or achievement level and provided more federal funding to increase the role of community college availability…
In the article, “Higher Learning” different groups of people are deciding or have to decided to go back to school to obtain a college degree or certification to help facilitate achieving a higher position in their current job, or to revamp their current career path to better their lives. Due to cutting down on the work hours or in some worse cases even being laid off, because companies are relocating or shutting down completely, more and more adults are going back to school. There are some…
Higher education is not the same experience for everyone, or is it likely to offer the same rewards for all. Clegg (2010, p. 93) claims that while higher education should be “widening participation and extending opportunities”, that instead, many higher education institutions “systematically reproduce inequalities of both experience and outcome”. This essay will argue that education, and especially higher education in Australia is not meritocratic, and that rather, the interconnected theories of…