Undergraduate education

Increasingly, community-based internships (sometimes referred to as ‘fieldwork’) are the capstone to undergraduates’ professional preparation (Cleary et al., 1998). Rojas-Guyler et al. (2006) found 83% of undergraduate programs required some internship experience. Partnered with seasoned professionals in the community, internships enable students to apply their academic preparation to the real world. Internships enhance students’ classroom-based development and capacity to perform as…

aged out of California’s foster care system. I was poorly prepared for an undergraduate education and had to complete remedial courses, which provides first-hand knowledge of some of the challenges many of our CSU Stanislaus student face pursuing their education. I had the fortune of being mentored by one of my undergraduate social work professors who influenced me to pursue an academic career. As such, my undergraduate academic training and mentoring at San José State University prepared me…

the college decides to cut off classes, they can insert those classes into undergraduate student’s schedule. Writing, speaking, listening are all English skills which should be connected together in order for students to be able to learn in a college class. Each of them is indispensable, so all of skills should be in one class. At the same time while students are studying English classes, they can study into their undergraduate class. Both of the English program…

Clinical leadership education for nursing students: Shaping future clinical leaders Curtis et al. (2011, p.309) stated that clinical leadership is an important part of nursing practice which should be started ‘at the earliest stages of basic nursing education and training’. I propose to critically examine clinical leadership education for nursing students, overcoming barriers to clinical leadership education and developing future clinical leaders in the implementation for health care policy and…

Statement The problem statement outlined in the article is as follows: there is a lack of qualitative research that precisely concentrates on first-year undergraduate nursing students' actual experiences…

Throughout the entirety of my undergraduate career, I have worked relentlessly to build an extremely competitive PT application. Throughout the process of developing my application, I have gained skills that will make me a fantastic EWU DPT student. As a child, I endured a very impoverished upbringing, and I had to find a way to fund my entire college education. I have received multiple scholarships to help fund my education, but I still needed two to three jobs to help support myself. While…

Personal Statement It has always been my goal to attend grad school. When I first decided to attend college as an undergraduate, I was certain that I would go to medical school, because I had a passion for helping others however, that dream was deferred due to my experiences in college. I realized that Biology was not my strongest area of interest; consequently, I changed my major to Psychology. My ability to befriend the common person and my empathy has brought many to seek my advice. The way…

There is a battle raging on between traditional and online education. Many people believe that because the students aren’t being lectured within the old fashion “bricks-and-mortar” classroom, that they aren’t learning like typical students at a university. They also believe that online teachers are just playing pretend. In his essay Combating Myths About Distance Education which is published in the Chronicle of Higher Learning, Todd Gilman effectively appeals to his audience of educators,…

Summary of “Should Undergraduates Specialize?” In the essay titled “Should Undergraduates Specialize?,” written by Dr. Patrick Allitt and published in Reading for Writers in New York in 2013, Dr. Allitt compares secondary education systems of the US and the UK, specifically the colleges of Emory University in America and Oxford University in the UK, and discusses whether or not the current system in the US should be changed. He compares many things between the two colleges, such as overall…

program at UW is best situated to provide me that opportunity. Both by reputation and first hand experience, the School of Education here at UW is among the very best in the world. As a student receiving the Educational Policy Studies certificate and the Education and Education Services certificate, I am quite familiar with many of the fantastic faculty in the School of Education (SOE). Undoubtedly, most of my…