1. As we look back on the past we need to recognise the small things, the small things with big matter. 100 years ago Lourdes Hill College, a Good Samaritan Education school, started in the year 1916. In the suburb of Hawthorn on the Bulimba Reach of the Brisbane River, at the request of Archbishop Duhig, the Good Samaritan Sisters founded the college (one of three schools that was founded at the time by the sisters). One of the most memorable features of Lourdes Hill College, The Grotto, was the first feature built in the college and will be continued to be looked up to and admired by the students at Lourdes Hill College. The values of the school, are based on three sources: The Compassion of the Good Samaritan, the patronage of Mary under
Point Loma Nazarene University is a private, Christian Institute that offers high education while developing students on their spiritual journeys. The university has an established community living agreement in which all incoming students must accept and abide by while furthering their education. Students who attend PLNU are expected to reflect pure, Christian values, which are guided by the Holy Spirit.
Why Georgetown and how will it prepare me for a future as a physician – 1-2 pages, separate document
Baldridge, J.V., Curtis, D.V., Ecker, G.P., & Riley, G.L. (1977). Alternative models of governance in higher education. In G.L. Riley and J.V. Baldridge. Governing academic organization. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan Publishing.
Penn West is a pretty interesting company. Though it may be suffering through many problems, some investors are being recommended to invest in this company. I’d like to talk about this company and the difficult situation it’s in. At the end I think you should decide whether investing in this company would be worth it.
Slippery Rock University is located in Butler County, Pennsylvania. The school was founded in 1889 and was known as the Slippery Rock Normal school with an enrollment of 168 students. The school started out as a teacher education institution. The school then became a four-year teacher’s college after it was purchased by the Commonwealth in 1926. The main focus of education during that time was health and physical education as well as elementary and secondary education. In 1960, the institution then became known as Slippery Rock State College that offered liberal arts and other professions allowing prospective students to earn their undergrad and graduate degrees. Between 1960 and 1970, the enrollment rose significantly by 24.1% eventually becoming
On Wednesday, February 22, 2017, I, Officer B. McMillon #135 of the MISD Police Department was on assignment at Mansfield Legacy High School located at 1263 N. Main Street in Mansfield, Texas 76063. At approximately 9:00 am, LHS student Reid, Lauryn 12/28/2000 entered the police office and told me that she thinks that her friend was thinking about harming herself.
On October 1st, 2015 a religious incident affected Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon forever. Sadly people were killed in this horrific incident by a twenty six year old man named Chris Harper-Mercer’s. He killed about thirteen innocent people and he, also, left about ten people injured. This incident impacted and changed many students, staff, and parents lives forever.
Montclair State University currently employs only 35% full time staff, and the rest are part time employees or adjuncts (collegefactual.com, 2017). Montclair State University is lead by a bard of trustees, offices of the university, including the president and academic Dean (Montclair State University, 2017) . The current present is Susan A Cole, she is the 8th president, and has been in this position since 1998 (Montclair State University, 2017).
Premier Collegiate School is a private school that has an enrollment of 300 students, and 30 faculty members. This school house two servers one for the administration business, and one to server the student needs. The school has a one dedicated computer lab with twenty-five desktop computers for the students, and the faculty has access to ten desktops in the teachers’ lounge making a total of thirty-five desktop computers. Furthermore, one laptop used by the school principle. Enrolled students are required to provide personally owned laptops for their school work. Below is an asset list with priorities based on the importance and the impact on the school to function in usual manner.
Almost nothing is better than getting a good education and it is important for everyone to attend where PCC is a great place to start. So, Pasadena City College is located in Colorado Blvd and the school has a lot of beautiful views. In my opinion, PCC is a great school due to their diverse programs and the supports that they offered to students.
SALEM, Mass. - Salem State University will lower all students tuition by 10 percent in hope that making higher education more affordable, will attract other students to join the university. The 10 percent tuition reduction will be applied to all students: in-state, out-of-state, graduate students and undergraduates.
The issue in modern day is how the Administrative Staff at HBCU’s can improve the experience of each student. HBCU’s have been in existence for almost two centuries now. Their mission is to educate African Americans. More than 50% of HBCU graduates start careers in teachers. But, HBCU’s have been facing challenges such as their decrease in diversity, financing, and retention rate which. In order to improve the overall experience for students while they matriculate through their college experience HBCU's must revamp the visitation policy.
In exploring Northcentral University’s Academic Success Center, I determined several aspects and services to be particularly useful. These include Written Resources in the form of the various communities under the Academic Success Center, the Tiers of Service feature, and the Coaching offerings.
Marc (pseudonym), the student that is attending the community college grew up near the area of the school. Marc is currently attending American River College and is currently in his second year. Overall he has completed three semesters of general education. This is third semester which also includes him taking courses that entails his major preparation courses. He is participating in Puente and TRIO Journey as well as TRIO STEM which is for first generation students that helps students identify the gap in education that they did not receive in high school or at home. He is currently decided on Electrical Engineering as his major. I have the opportunity to see Marc in two different spaces, one in the HUB, the center of students services on campus. The other is having the ability to see him in the Human Career Development course as part of being part the TRIO Journey program. In this class, I can also further assess his characteristics as an individual and in a collectivistic environment. The key presenting issue with Marc is that he is a community college student that is stuck, regarding his decision towards his transfer, major and location of schools.
Traditionally, there have been four primary factors that students and parents consider when selecting a college or university, such as, academics, location, cost, and culture. But recently, a new factor safety influences their decision (Johnson & Levering, 2009).Throughout the country and through many years, an increase in the number of crises occurs almost daily throughout the country on college or university campuses. What is campus crisis? Goshen College explained (2016): the crisis is an event, condition or situation that has the potential to cause harm or injury to institution’s financial standing or its ability to fulfill the institution’s mission beyond the immediacy of an emergency. An emergency must be addressed instantaneously,