Health promotion in higher education

Guatemala. As a Public Health major at the University of California, Merced with an emphasis in Global Health I was intrigued by the lack of medical access in developing countries. I was humbled by the experience and gained an understanding of my culture, as well as reinforced my passion for Public Health.…

Professors have showed me how important it is to continue with your college education. They get very excited when you tell them you would like to go farther than Lakeland and transfer to a university or go across the street and attend the Holden University Center to continue your degree. Another positive impact lakeland has made in…

In a discussion about the paradigms of public education, Ken Burns addresses the controversial topic of cultural education. Public education is experiencing a time of confusion in helping children develop cultural identity so the new generation can continue to play an important role in globalization. This confusion causes an immediate reaction: continue to do what has been done in the past--instruct children to work hard, do well, and earn a college degree, then they will get a job. Many…

lifetime ahead of me filled with the aforementioned made me confident I was making the right career choice. Soon I joined the UIL category of accounting after being introduced to it by an accounting course and realized that I wanted to pursue an education and career in this specific field. Becoming a part of UIL not only taught me advanced components of accounting, but required me to practice vigorously and learn how to work well under pressure as the tests are timed and competition is…

five-paragraph essay.” Susan Fanetti’s “Closing the Gap between High School Writing Instruction and College Writing Expectations” examines the discrepancy between American high schools and their post-secondary counterparts in writing and English education through interviews with instructors from secondary teachers up to post-secondary professors. The results of this study, the common statements of English/writing educators over a diversity of backgrounds, as well as possible explanations for…

Many concerned parents think about their child or children’s education, but not all parents have the resources to send their child or children on to higher education. The only hard decision a child should have to make concerning college is choosing which school is best for them after high school. If a person wants to go on to college after high school, it should not have to be a difficult decision based on a nonexistence of monetary contributions. Unfortunately for most children in American…

The introduction of technology to our lives has created a positive effect in education. Nowadays with advancement in computer technology, the use of digital media has become more usual than ever in classrooms across the US. Institutions of higher learning offer complete online degrees. Meanwhile grammar schools, middle schools, and high school are starting to see an increase usage of digital media in their classrooms. Recent studies conducted by Andrea Lunsford show that the use of digital…

school the importance of education begins to take hold. Teachers ask their students what they wish to become when they “grow up” and receive answers ranging from teachers to doctors. As they move from one grade level to the next, award ceremonies further instill the idea that education is something worth striving and working hard for. Such concept of merit and being rewarded for hard work drives students to seek further educating themselves, until the reality of education hits. As children and…

play that foster the advancement of women in the workplace. Women’s participation in the workforce has increased by nearly twenty percent since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 (Eagly & Carli, 2007). Women have not only consistently had higher average high school GPAs than their male counterparts, they have been earning over half of the bachelors’ degrees in the US since the mid-1980s (Russell Sage Foundation, 2013). Women have been increasingly filling management roles for the past…

Current student debt is an all time high and it’s only getting worse. Current federal student debt is at 15 billion dollars with over 3 quarters of new jobs needing a post-secondary education. Though, it’s an asset having a diploma in your back pocket, not many can afford a college or university education as tuition costs continue to rise. Nevertheless, student debt not only affects student’s wallets but the mental state of mind of the body as well as the economy and the after-life of one. Even…