Miami University

During my senior year at North Miami Beach Senior High School, I contemplated on where I would transfer to start my collegiate studies. I considered many different universities and colleges, weighing out the positives and negatives in attending each of them. However, there was one that remained as the most impressionable college: The Honors College of Miami Dade College. My older brother had joined the Honors College and continually remarked on how they changed his life and helped him grow both…

understanding of university education. Asklepios for example is a university for medical studies. They are offering exactly one program: human medicine. Asklepios teaches in a traditional way, because the subject taught did not go through a lot of change in recent years. Their difference to a public university is only found in them not being public and therefore being costly. Obviously Asklepios is no competitor to Macromedia but still relevant to show that private universities do not necessary…

Culture and diversity are important topics in contemporary educational circles. It is a major task providing for the successful blending of both culture and diversity in a school setting. This task is ultimately left in the hands of school leaders, who may or may not be skilled in creating a culture of diversity. That school leader as a servant leader takes on the responsibility to provide an educational environment which reflects some of the lived experiences of the students. This…

1. What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses? I consider myself a very committed and dedicated person. I like to put time and effort to my job in order to perform well my tasks and satisfy my clients. Also, I am not afraid to perform new tasks and learn new skills. On the other hand, I lack accounting experience since I have been working on the field for only six months now. I need to improve my software skills in order to be more efficient while entering taxpayers’ information on tax…

The Reinvention Collaborative is a consortium of public and private research universities dedicated to advancing their undergraduate students’ educational experience. The catalyst for the formation of a consortium focused entirely on advancing undergraduate education in research universities was the 1998 Boyer Commission Report (Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research Universities). The consortium was founded by President Shirley Strum Kenny at Stony Brook. With…

My plan to compensate college athletes comes from the idea of stipends. I have two potential plans to pay players through stipends. As we have discovered, athletes are already shorted by their university $2000- $3000 a year because of attending university costs. But not even this projected amount covers other expenses like travel expenses, food expenses, and clothing expenses. Athletes, like other students, require the ability to travel to class or home, but because athletes are representing the…

Former president of Boston University, John Silber, who was also ran for the position of governor for the state of Massachusetts, was an intellectual man. Even after his death, September 27, 2012, he left behind his legacy and had “Sherborn Street” renamed by the city of Boston, the “John R. Silber Way” in honor of him. John Silber’s essay, “Students Should Not Be above the Law” addresses in the beginning of the essay, in which medieval Europe had a “two parallel court systems: the church’s and…

3. The Best universities to attend if you are Hispanic 906 tikwiza All universities strive for diversity, but no one university fits every ethnic background. Hispanics, just like African Americans, are a minority group in the U.S. Some factors that Hispanics might consider when making a choice to go to a particular university are: Affordability Graduation rate of that particular ethnic group Hispanic friendly universities; and universities that strive to ensure protection of the rights of…

the capacity to create sustainable change, are the driving factors that have intrinsically motivated me to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer. This drive began when I was a child. My father is the Project Developer for a non-profit organization in Miami, FL and since my childhood, he has instilled within me the concept that I have the unique opportunity to help others around the world no matter the circumstance. I easily adopted this mindset as I began taking on responsibilities that revolved…

Two weeks before I had my interview with the Honors College directors my house burned down. I remember the horrible day in which I walked into my home to find it full of smoke. My family and I had spent the whole afternoon together, we went to dinner and talked for a while. Once my dad parked the car in front of the house I remember feeling uneasy, something was not right. I got off the car as fast as possible and headed for the door to find a cloud of smoke hitting me across the face. My dog,…