...Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success HCS/504 August 6, 2012 John Dean Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success According to Linda Weston Kramer “Retuning to graduate school is a major decision in one’s professional life. Although there are many benefits to returning to school to earn a graduate degree, it is also very challenging” (Kramer, 2007, p. 158.). This essay discusses various challenges faced by graduate students, and strategies to overcome the challenges, from personal perspective. Personal and professional goals It is important to set personal and career goals before pursuing graduate study. Students need to discover the various courses offered, and select the one suit for them. This contributes a great deal of success because they choose what they want to, and where they want to reach. Goal setting and working toward achieving the goal is the key for success. My main long-term goal is career development. I want to complete my program within two years and find a job in Nursing/Informatics and go up in the ladder. When considering my short-term goal, I want to keep my GPA above 3.5, and acquire as much knowledge from this program by using the resources available. I want to improve my communication skills both written and verbal, and graduate study is the best platform for achieving that goal. It is important to prioritize the goals and choose the right path. Self-assessment and closely checking the measurable...
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...Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” This famed quotation by one of the most influential American essayist and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, inspired me toward my journey to pursue graduate study. Taking the first step toward this journey is the most difficult. I understood that challenges will be inevitable in this path and implementing strategies to face these challenges is crucial for my success. I gained significant experience in both my academic and professional career over the years. I realize that I have the determination to accomplish goals and the necessary means to envision success. I have a variety of reasons I chose to pursue graduate study, both personal, and professional. Personally, I want to teach my children the importance of education in one’s life and to inspire them to aim for academic excellence. Professionally, I am very passionate about Nursing and about improving the quality of care given to patients. My ultimate goal is to influence change in the health care field as an educator or as an administrator. I want to inspire others to be excited with Nursing and be more involved in creating best practices that affects health care. I also want to ensure that I am more marketable to advance in my career. Graduate study paves the way toward the realization of these aspirations. Three Challenges that I will face in Meeting my Goals ...
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...Answering a Calling to Graduate Study: Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success Considering the pursuit of a graduate level education is a decision that should be well thought out. Success, whether academic or professional, is something desired by everyone at some point in life. It is important to decide carefully what goals one wants to accomplish and how a graduate degree will help. Once the goals are set, and the decision is made to go back to school, additional research and careful consideration is given in deciding what type of program to attend. There are basic considerations, including program and cost, but the future student should also consider that not all programs are created equal. Graduate study programs often have different objectives and focus (Kuther, PhD, 2013). It is the responsibility of the individual to ensure that the program of choice matches his or her desired learning preferences. I knew I wanted to be a nurse from the time I started college, and it did not take long working in the field to determine that I was meant for health care management. My BSN and management ability has enabled me to work my way up to a senior management position, as the Chief Nursing Officer, at a rural hospital. I believe that by obtaining the MSN/MHA dual degree, doors will continue to open in health care administration. For this reason, I have found my way back to school and I am a proud virtual student at University of Phoenix...
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...present, WritePoint cannot detect quotations or block-quotes, so comments in those areas should be ignored. Please see the other helpful writing resources in the Tutorials and Guides section of the Center for Writing Excellence. Thank you for using WritePoint. Personal Plan to Succeed Doreen M. Giglio University of Phoenix Success has many definitions. But [In academic writing, avoid starting a sentence with a conjunction ] my choice is the basic definition of Mierriam-Webster (2011) who defines success as “The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted” (p. 1). Basically, success is the goal or goals that we [Use "we,"...
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...Alena Cabeen 11/1/15 CSI Reflection Beginning my college career as a student here at UNOH has been a great experience this far. I chose UNOH with the sole purpose of obtaining two different degrees. I want my associates in travel and hospitality, with a bachelors in marketing. My ultimate goal is to own my own event planning company in Atlanta, Georgia. Completing the coursework and required curriculum will help me to gain the knowledge about my fields and will give me the best chance to obtain the work I want in my career field. A university degree in travel and marketing means that I will have the proper knowledge and training in my area of study to help me excel in my chosen field. I will learn through my years of college about many things that are important. I will gain knowledge about how to properly help plan events such as weddings, and running a business . There are several bonuses to receiving this degree and it will help me to succeed in many ways. It will make me more marketable in my field and more desired by major clients. The overall personal meaning of a degree to me is that I will be able to prove to myself that I worked hard, stayed the course and did the work required to reach my goal of achieving a higher education and to ultimately map out where I want to be in the future. Secondly, earning a degree will have many benefits to me professionally. It means that I will take the material that I have learned and utilize it to transform me into an outstanding...
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...Applied Business Challenge BPD3100 Year:2015 Semester/ Dates: 1 2015 Location: Melbourne, Sunway KL&JB-CUFE-VU Sydney-Liaoning, Vietnam Prepared by: Andrew Stein / Maria De Sensi Welcome Welcome to this unit of study. This Unit Guide provides important information and should be kept as a reference to assist with your studies. This Guide includes information about your reading and resources, independent learning, class activities and assessment tasks. It is recommended that you read this Guide carefully: you will be expected to manage your learning as you work towards successful study. Detailed in formation and learning resources for this unit have also been provided on the Unit website on VU Collaborate which can be reached via the Student Portal at vu.edu.au/student-tools/myvu-student-por tal. It is important that you access your Unit website regularly. Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge and recognise the traditional owners, their Elders past and present, their descendants and kin as the custodians of this land. Introduction to the unit Unit Title: Applied Business Challenge Unit Code: BPD3100 Other details: Key staff Unit co-ordinator Name: Andrew Stein Location: CF1024 Contact number: 061-99194332 Contact email: Andrew.stein@vu.edu.au Name: Maria De Sensi Location: G425 Contact number: 061-99195484 Contact email: Maria.De Sensi@vu.edu.au Teaching team Campus: Days and times: Year: 2015 Semester/Dates: 1 Credit Points: 12 alagarania@sunway...
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...problems when returning to school. The student requires organizing one’s life from all areas prior to making the application for upcoming education projects. A student mother needs to adapt to the challenges and take accountability for any related compromises. "Students demand excessively high levels of effort and do not provide supportive mechanisms that would facilitate effective coping” (Neumann, Reichel & Neumann, 1990, para.2). Goal Setting Carter (2002) stated that, “Achieving the kind of success you dream of in your studies and your career may often seem difficult or even impossible” (p. 49). However, every problem is a challenge to become a better person. When a student mother focuses on long-term study goals and identifies own objectives, then the student can come up with strategies to balance study, career and personal matters. The author explains the action plans required to become long-life learners by setting educational, career and personal goals while adhering to one’s norms and values (p. 53-54). Ultimately a student mother turns a dream into a reality. Strategic Planning As a student mother, strategic planning is required in order to arrive to effective habits to complete the coursework. To stay ahead of work, a system should be made for allocating time to study through tools such as printed timetables placed in visible locations. Studying is a serious matter which requires skills such as organization, planning, prioritizing, multitasking, and most...
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...UK’s knowledge based economy of the twenty first century. Universities are an integral part of the skills and innovation supply chain to business. However, this supply chain is not a simple linear supplier‐purchaser transaction; it is not the acquisition of a single product or service. This supply chain is multi‐dimensional, it has to be sustainable, and it has to have quality, strength and resilience. These attributes can only be secured through close collaboration, partnership and understanding between business and universities. The multi‐dimensional nature of the supply chain is represented by a landscape of business‐ university collaboration, consisting of a number of highly diverse domains of activity. For example: the education of highly skilled graduates, applied...
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...NOORAZAH BT MD NOOR Learning Centre: OUM SIBU JANUARY 2012 Semester Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Importan skills that employers looking for in the future graduates. 3 2.1. Communication skills 4 2.2. Critical thinking and problem solving skills 5 2.3. Teamworking skills 6 2.4. Lifelong learning and information literacy 7 2.5. Leadership skills 8 3. Suggestions for future graduates, goverment bodies or educational institutions in Malaysia to ensure that future graduates are equipped with skills 9 4. Conclusion 11 References 12 Introduction Malaysia is now a highly motivated developing country with vision to archieve status as developed country. With the mushrooming of the public and private educational institutions in Malaysia, a huge pool of graduates has been created. Obtaining a degree from institute of higher education in local or overseas has become necessary in order to get a good job with nice salary. However, in this challenging world, competition is everywhere. The excerpt from Education Malaysia, (July, 2006) had indicated that unemployment rate in Malaysia seemed to be increasing. One reason for this problem is that the focus of higher education institutions and the needs of the labour market for graduates are not as compatible as they were twenty years ago. The labour market now is more competitive and volatile. Now, Malaysia is facing a new economic trend based on worldwide demand...
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...A new paradigm in management training Dr J. A. MacAskill, Dean, Dr Muhammad Farmer, Director St James’s Business School, 23 King Street, London SW1Y 6QY INTRODUCTION Graduates, perhaps at no other time in an economic cycle, require the ability to integrate and transfer their conceptual understanding to novel situations in a practical way. The context in which one learns is a formative experience in promoting knowledge transfer. If knowledge is taught in one dimension then it intrinsically places a barrier to adaptive and flexible learning and its application. Alternatively, knowledge acquisition taught in multiple contexts promotes a student’s ability to assimilate, analyse, articulate and implement action plans. This ability to extract knowledge and abstract the concepts and principles relevant to any given situation is undoubtedly promoted through a more flexible multi-context presentation of knowledge. Furthermore, in a management and leadership development context it presents information in a form that will be more relevant to executive work patterns and operational requirements. In an educational sense this requires commonality of experience and the conceptual frameworks of the learners and their tutors to ensure that the ability to move easily between the cognitive elements being described and the desired practical outcome is achievable. At the centre of British Institute of Technology and E-commerce (BITE) educational philosophy lies the concept of...
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...PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN Ibrahim Landajani Instructors Name Business Date PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN There is a need for individual to set their personal development plan in life. The fundamental element of being a professional is to set goals that are not too high but all the challenges should be present. The personal development plan must be reasonable, attainable and achievable. This means that goals should pose certain challenges like in the application of SMART Approach which are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bounded. The unit of measure for the development plan should be objective rather than subjective. The focus of the personal development plan should be on end results based on stated goals. My main goal in life is to accomplish my Masteral Education Degree to be fully qualified employee with one of the best organization in the country where I can transfer the knowledge that I acquired to all the people regardless of their backgrounds. I plan to achieve this goal by completing my Masteral Degree. The active learning process that I acquired in the academe will be valuable in the workplace and record of my achievement and success is invaluable for my Curriculum Vitae and application writing. Description of the Problem This study aims to design and write a professional Development Plan with a deeper understanding and knowledge acquired in the classroom, the wider reading and research to support my findings and assertions and be able...
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...bs_bs_banner Higher Education Quarterly, 0951-5224 DOI: 10.1111/hequ.12055 Volume 68, No. 3, July 2014, pp 348–372 The Role of Work Experience in the Future Employability of Higher Education Graduates Ruth Helyer, Teesside University, r.helyer@tees.ac.uk Dionne Lee, Teesside University, d.lee@tees.ac.uk Abstract Many new graduates are finding it difficult to obtain graduate-level work and impossible to break into the sectors they were aiming at. In order to address this, higher education institutions are examining the methods they use to enhance student employability and deploying various measures to grow and strengthen this activity, with an increasing focus on providing work experience. One popular way of doing this is via internships (placements). This paper examines the context in which work experience has come to the fore as an approach to enhancing employability by interrogating recent research and policy related to this agenda. Employability is presented as an on-going debate that cannot be viewed as a finite entity but must move and develop with the market, society and the global situation. In addition the paper closely examines a graduate internship programme in a university in North East England. Comparing and contrasting findings from this scheme, with other examples of experiential learning through work experience, provides some evidence to suggest the value of internships and furthermore supports some formative ideas about how internships...
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...professional organizations and follows an established code of ethics. The concerns of nursing focus on human responses to actual or potential health problems and are increasingly focus on wellness, an area of caring that encompasses nursing’s unique knowledge and abilities. Nursing is rich in tradition, which is used to develop and redefine both the art and science of nursing. Furthermore, nursing is increasingly being recognized as scholarly with academic qualifications, research, and publication specific to nursing is increasingly becoming more widely accepted and respected. Background of the Study One of the major issues in nursing currently involves nursing education. Nursing profession provides a single route for the educational preparation of its practitioners. However, the development of nursing as a profession has resulted in three major educational routes that prepare graduates to write the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) for registered nursing. The three traditional educational avenues that prepare men and women for registered nursing are hospital-based diploma programs, 2-year associate degree programs (primarily found at junior and community colleges), and baccalaureate programs (offered at 4-year colleges and universities). (Ellis and Hartley, 2004). The Bulacan State University-College of Nursing which was organized and established in December 2003, by virtue of Resolution No. 65, s. 2003, in response to the growing demand for highly qualified...
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...University of Phoenix Material Academic Success Answer each question below in at least 75 words per question, reflecting on your current abilities, and identify resources to strengthen your skills. Refer to the videos, readings, and other weekly assignments to help you compose your answers. |Question |Your reflection | |How would you define academic |Present an honest self-assessment of one’s self to ensure you are ready for the task of college. | |readiness? |With a strong fundamental working knowledge and the concepts of the classes and or disciplines | | |one is to undertake. Has a keen since of problem solving within the subject area, being studied.| | |Possesses the ability to assess objectively one's level of competence in a subject and study | | |habits to create an environment for learning and studying to achieve the desired goal of course | | |completion and ultimately degree completion. | |What concerns, if any, do you have |For me, I don’t have many concerns with reading the materials that will be assigned. My concerns| |with academic writing and reading? |come from the writing section of the assignments...
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...Using Student Self-Reflections to Improve Student Study Habits in the Mathematics Classroom A Capstone Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Teaching: Mathematics Nancy Daly Department of Mathematics and Computer Science College of Arts and Sciences Graduate School Minot State University Minot, North Dakota Summer 2011 ii This capstone project was submitted by Nancy Daly Graduate Committee: Dr. Laurie Geller, Chairperson Dr. Cheryl Nilsen Dr. Rebecca Anhorn Dean of Graduate School Dr. Linda Cresap Date of defense: Month day, year iii Abstract Type the abstract here. Do not indent. It should be one block paragraph. The abstract is a summary of your paper. iv Acknowledgements Type your acknowledgements here. Indent each paragraph 0.5 inch. You can thank whomever you choose. v Table of Contents Page Abstract .................................................................................................................. iii Acknowledgements ................................................................................................ iv List of Tables ....................................................................................................... viii List of Figures ........................................................................................................ ix Chapter One: Introduction ................................................................
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