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Great College Essay Advice for the Common App – The Personal Growth Prompt

Great College Advice

Discuss Your Story for the Personal Growth Prompt At first glance, this prompt doesn’t seem to have a story at the heart of it. While an “accomplishment” might bring about personal growth, sometimes the most mundane events or off-handed conversations can lead us to reevaluate ourselves or the world around us.

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Preparing Students for Future Work Using Narrative Approaches

The Scholarly Teacher

Introduction The world of work continues to change. By 2025, the economy will have created over 133 million jobs that do not exist today, according to the World Economic Forum. We decided to integrate a series of writing projects into the course (the “narrative” reference in the title). editing, rewriting).

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Doug Chiang of Lucasfilm Named 2023 CCS Commencement Speaker

College for Creative Study

He was Lucasfilm’s Principal Designer for Disney World Resort’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Currently, Chiang also serves as Production Designer for the Star Wars live-action series, The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew. His latest book, Mechanika, is in its second edition.

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Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. on historicizing 'The Hobbit'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It felt downright pedantic to mention The Hobbit was published in 1937, or that most of The Lord of the Rings was written before the end of World War II. avoids reductive shortcuts while also presenting Tolkien’s first work of fiction as deeply historical. I asked the author a series of questions by email.

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Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: Reflections on the Assemblages Symposium

SRHE

by Sam Elkington and Jill Dickinson Wednesday September 13 th was the final instalment of the three-part SRHE ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposia series, delivered in partnership with series co-convenors Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson.

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Why Do So Few American Students Study Abroad?

Edu Alliance Journal

December 5, 2022 by Dean Hoke : In the newest edition of the 2022 Open Doors Report, US university’s international student enrollment shows encouraging signs. 89% of those who entered graduate school earned admissions in their first or second-choice school. First Year Results. Why is that a problem?

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Workplace Learning: A Follow-up

eLiterate

First, providing education as an HR benefit is back in fashion now after a few decades of corporate neglect. Second, mediocre, braindead approaches to Design Thinking seem significantly more prevalent in the corporate world than in higher ed. The barrier is not technology in either the corporate world or higher education.