North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

On May 22, 2016, I will graduated from Harlan Community High School. Then comes the next big step in my life. College. I will have to start college in August of 2016. That is exactly 300 days from right now. That means in 300 days I am on my own. I have a very big dilemma on my hands when it comes to the college decision. I am currently choosing between attending Northwest Missouri State University and attending Iowa State University. I have many different factors to consider when I am choosing. My top three factors are the cost of tuition, size of the college and the town that that college is in, and how many people I will know on campus. Tuition is a very important to me personally. I do not want to have to spend half of my life after college paying off student loan. If I were…

My journey to victory is getting into a four year college. The type of college I would want to get into being, a college that is easy to get around to, to explore different organizations, to be able to have a wide variety of food on campus and off campus and lastly to have a good quality of education. A second victory would be getting a degree from a four year university. I have had many people who have been a great help in achieving my victory. Each semester that I had at Schoolcraft College I…

by professors and teachers from area schools and colleges, the speaker shared general information about the retirement process and during that process talked about a slide explaining the Wear Away program, noting that this program did not apply to those who were retiring from four year universities. Intrigued, Dr. Heitland went to talk to the speaker after the meeting to learn more about EESIP and to ascertain if he would be eligible for it. He had previously been communicating with OTRS about…

Fort Osage High School is a co-ed public high school in Independence, Missouri. Classes are held at FOSH for pupils in grades 9 through 12. The gender divide at the school is 52 percent male and 48 percent female. There are about 1500 pupils enrolled and the student-to-teacher ratio is 19:1. It's a school in the Fort Osage R-I School District. State assessments show 66 percent of pupils are proficient in English and 51 percent are proficient in Mathematics. The graduation rate is 95 percent,…

planning on studying athletic training in college and becoming an athletic trainer. I have researched the University of Georgia, Georgia College and State University, Mercer University, and University of North Georgia and have also gone over their positives and negatives. University of Georgia has many great aspects and very few negatives. Most importantly UGA has a very safe campus. One of my questions for my student interviews was about campus safety. Amanda Compton, the student I…

The first college I did research on was the university of Florida which is also my number one choice for the college I want to go to. University of Florida or UF home of the gators located in Gainesville Florida was recently ranked number 14 of all the university’s in the country, it is very big in athletics, science and in the medical field. UF also has many opportunities such as jobs, honor programs in fact more than 3,400 UF students participate in these honor programs they also have many…

And although students find ways to bring alcohol into the residence halls, to have the university sanction its allowance on campus could bring about many negative effects. Directors at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Aaron White and Ralph Hingson (2013) write about the consequences of alcohol use on college campuses in “The Burden of Alcohol Use: Excessive Consumption and Related Consequences Among College Students”. White and Hingson (2013) write that “Surprisingly,…

Clayton State University MBA program is one of the very few programs offering an MBA degree with a concentration in Supply Chain Management in Georgia. This will be perceived by future students as an asset and a rare program being offered by a University and give the school a competitive advantage. The focus of the MBA program is to meet their needs for personal tangency and support, while making it a priority to improve learning, retention, and graduation rates. Clayton State University will be…

Research Paper Like most people, OK, I do not know most people, but go along with me; I was unsure what to do when I left high school. That was the case before I actually started to do research on my career and college choices. If you want to achieve your goals for a life after high school, you would have to go over and beyond if you want to get there. This is part of the message that Marlon Wayans has spoken, “Success is not a destination, but the road that you 're on. Being successful means…

Some of these accreditations are: The Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs, The National association of Schools of Music, Commission on Collegiate Business Schools and Programs, The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, The Oklahoma State Department of Education, and The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. OBU is also member to many different groups including: The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education,…