Colorado Technical University

Does this school sound good to you? I recently applied but now regret it, this is the info i found about the school and is not accredited: In January 2007, the New York State Education Department reported deficiencies at the Katharine Gibbs New York campus. The problems related to faculty qualifications and remedial course offerings. New enrollment has been limited and the Education Department has stated it will close the college if improvements are not made. In the fall of 2006, Career Education Corporation announced that the entire Gibbs College division was being put up for sale. Over the next year, no buyer could be found, so on Thursday, February 14, 2008, Career Education Corporation announced that it would convert two of the nine campuses in the Gibbs division (Vienna, Virginia and Melville, New York) to its Sanford-Brown College brand and "teach out" the remaining seven schools in the division. Those seven campuses were scheduled to close in December 2009. The decision resulted in the cancellation of all new enrollments and a massive reduction in workforce. Students are still being admitted into the Melville, New York campus What do you think, best answer gets 10Pt's

Choosing the right degree program to land a high level English teaching job in Dubai or Abu Dhabi.? Hello Everyone, I did a search and didn't find the info I was seeking so I decided to post this question to pick your brains. I apologize in advance for the long email and also thank you for your responses (the constructive ones.) I love expat life and have decided to build a career in the TESOL field. I've therefore decided to pursue my Master's degree while working in South Korea (currently in my first year in Korea.) My current goal is to become well qualitfied for a position in the UAE. My questions are these: 1- Does my degree have to be from an English speaking country? I'm a U.S citizen with a BA in Mass Communications from a U.S university so would it matter to the employers if I earned my Master's degree from a university in Korea? I'm considering studying in Korea because it would be more convenient for me as I'll be here for a few years. Of course, I'm also researching online degree programs in the U.S but it would be great if I could study in Korea. 2- Based on my research most people have Master's degree in Applied Linguistics or an MA TESOL. Just these 2 options seem limiting to me. Are they? I'd like to position myself to have options in and outside of the classroom and perhaps take some positions with NGOs, etc. Can anyone think of some other TESOL related majors that would qualify me for teacher positions int he UAE and elsewhere in the world but wouldn't necessarily limit me to the classroom forever? I'm looking at Drexel University's online program. I'm considering the Master of Science in Global and International Education program. According to the school website: " Graduates of the The M.S. in Global and International Education program will be qualified to pursue careers in higher education, ESL programs, education abroad, law firms, international education associations, accreditation agencies, local community international outreach centers, U.S. government, international development or human service agencies, non-governmental agencies, as well as act as administrators, managers, and researchers in national and international organizations, foundations, associations, and corporations. Key Program Features: •Graduates from the MS program in Global and International Education will possess skills in developing, analyzing, implementing, and evaluating new educational policies at a variety of institutions/organizations or private sector jobs by using cross-cultural perspectives in training employees and researching products. •Students will also exhibit outstanding leadership, organizational, cross-cultural, interpersonal, and advocacy skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external groups, using present and emerging communication and information technologies. Students will have in-depth knowledge regarding both public and private (non-profit and for-profit) institutions as well as small and large institutions and multi-campus institutions..." What do you think? Would this be a marketable specialization or do the schools generally want degrees that are more language oriented? Thanks again!

At what point in you're life did you "know" what you wanted to do for a living? It took me until this year to truly know. I am 22 and I had thought about various careers since around the age of 16. I always knew I did not want to work in a corporation and I have always wanted to do something public, non profit etc. I am a people person and I really did not want to work in cubicle in a corporation with my whole goal being to make the CEO even wealthier than he already is. I looked at Occupatonal and Physical Therapy, Speech Language Pathology but I always had a strong feeling towards schools. I was an elementary education major my first 3 semesters at Penn State but in January 2007 I changed over to Human Development and Family Studies with the aim of becoming a high school guidance counselor. This year it hit me right in the face that I want to be an Elementary School Counselor. I am interning right now and will earn my B.S. in HDFS in December and if everything goes to plan, I will be earning my M.Ed. in Elementary School Counseling in December 2011. And I absolutely love what I am doing at my internship. After being in 3 of the 9 majors and considering at least 6 of them on my small campus I have hit the mark. Did any of you have this much back and forth over what career line to pick and do you enjoy your choice or regret it? Thanks, Dave

would you please give some advice on my personal statement? I am writing my personal statement for UK college, this is the draft piece, would you pls give some suggestion for me, thank you very much,lol How many people would read on subway with a kindle? I have no idea about this issue, but I can expect reading ebooks would become a growing trend in near future, which would change our lifestyle then. Although there is a long way to go, I would like to participate in this progress, that's the initial reason for me to pursue the publishing programme. I was in touch with publishing as long as I started my high school that established by a publishing corporation, and had a chance to prepare others' paper for publishingh as teacher's assistant in senior year. Another exciting thing for me was some of my own pieces being accepted by the newspaper. Then I went to Communication Univesity of China, where I learned more about publishing and media. In freshmen and sophomore years, I spended more time participating in practical placement than studying theoretical subjects, worked as journalist in local newspaper, to interview latest event, college robbery and something like that, and also did some editorial jobs in a TV station. Those experience told me a frustrating fact that knowlege from books could not give a perfect solution to problem I encountered in jobs. Thence I studied very hard in junior and senior years, all courses, high score, then I understood, some problems could be resolved by theories, but others could not, in those cases, we should get our own answers, which afterwards be proved by my final professional placement. I worked as manager assistant in Electronic Publishing Department of Duzhe, a literary magazine whose circulation ranked first these years in Asia, and the responsibility of our team is to sell its own e-book reader. However, the team leader, who had 10-year sales experience in traditional media, had no idea about how to promote this kind of book. He hoped us could get some ideas from Amazon's success, but how, product design, competitive pricing, and copyright management, all these aspects could not be easily and completely copied. What we should do is to analyse the electronic publishing market in China and to plan related sales strategy, I proposed my own ideas in those aspects and that stimulated a broad discussion in our team, everyone told why and how, finally we got the initial marketing model. And it's so impressive experience for me that I chose it as my topic of thesis, researched on how to promote ebook reader, how to establish profitable model, and how to bring in digital transformation to the whole corporation. After graduation, the corporation offered me a position in the New Media Department, to analyse market trends, and plan sales strategy. I am competent to these tasks, but that's not my interest, and what always engages my attention is a more popular and perfect ebook reader, which could been seen everywhere, and even in school, students could study with this kind of book. Actually, there is a long way to go, suitable design, affordable price, and interesting content, all these targets should be achieved with effort. Thus I want to pursue my further education abroad to learn more about electronic publishing. Actually, I want to make something difference, not only for my own career development, but for some embarrassed situation in electronic publishing of China, a hard-studied colledge student might find knowledge he learned on campus would be obsolete just after graduation, and he can do nothing but copy others' pieces from one website to another, that's why Baidu in China is not as good as google, too much copied information would be searched before you get what you really want, and this also be true in the whole internet industry in China, no orginal model could be found here, I would expect Weibo would say this is twitter of China if they have chance to issue shares at the New York Stock Exchange. And the most important aspect to be improved is copyright management, which was defined as comprehensive legal framework to protect both local and foreign intellectual property, but the fact is copyright infringement could be found every area in China, for instance, Baidu's knowledge sharing platform has being infringed thousands of authors' copyright, how to ballence the sharing and copyright on the basis of protecting orginal creativity. I believe I can get solution to those problems duration of my further education, if I could be accepted by your programme, I would have chance to learn from leading academic experts, and understand more about publishing industry as well as acquire transferable skills in this field, those would help me on my way to make difference to China's electronic publishing, and would help me make my dream be realized.

Please Tell Me How my College Admissions Letter Sounds? Hey i'm applying to go to Rutgers University in NB this Fall semester and i just wanted to know if my acceptance letter had any errors, i haven't even overlooked it yet so feel free to tell me anything i need to fix and punctuations that need to be made as well as sentence fragments. Please use the space below to tell us how you believe a Rutgers education will help you achieve your personal enrichment or career goals. Not only do I strongly believe that Rutgers University has the ability to add extra credentials to my diverse background, but the school itself will help aspire me to my career goals as well. When I graduated High School I wasn’t sure of what college to attend with the desired career goals that I want to pursue. One night while endlessly browsing, I finally came across the school website for Rutgers University. While navigating through the school’s website I began to foresee an aspiring future for myself. I decided right then and there that I wanted to graduate from Rutgers University. Rutgers University has astounded me over and over again as I read everything that the school has to offer. Possessing such a proficient reputation and a vast community holding thousands of diverse people just like me gives Rutgers University that extra advantage that the other colleges just don’t obtain. My ultimate goal in the next 10-20 years is to work for a credible Finance Company while reviewing and compromising over analytical data manifested unto me. Later on down the road I play on owning my own enterprise business, consisting of numerous corporations and small businesses. This school has every class that my career goals consists of obtaining so I can continue to chase my dream as a very successful business man. With almost any class I could possibly choose from and such a huge selection of core subjects, there is no better college of choice. While navigating through the school’s website I also found that there are over 400 clubs and student organizations that I could join and also help contribute to while this also gives me a huge chance to interact with people from different ethnic backgrounds. With classes like Financial Planning, Entrepreneurship, and H.R Performance Reviews, it gives me the exact knowledge and experience I would need while working towards my degree and fulfilling my personal enrichment. Looking more thoroughly at the schools website I believe that this Rutgers could give me that perfect opportunity, to be everything I want in life. Composed of such an eloquent group of professors with admirable reputations, I’ll be getting a top notch education that is only about an hour away from home which also gives this school a huge advantage for me. Without a single doubt, I promise that if accepted into Rutgers, I will strive to let my full potential shine both on and off of campus and I will do my absolute best to contribute to this schools wonderful and already credible reputation.

Is Graduate School Worth It? More and more graduate students are forced through post-doc after post-doc because of the lack of enough opportunity in academia and industry. It didn't use to be like this. Academic inflation is outrageous and it leads most every other measure of inflation. The value of an education is becoming questionable, in this age where a B.S. is yesterday's equivalent of a highschool diploma - and almost as unemployable. Regardless, you're paying much more for it today than ever before. Jobs in key industries are being offshored. This used to be true only of manufacturing jobs, but it is now true also of R&D, as major corporations have begun to establish major R&D centers in cheaper countries, like China and India. In addition, for those jobs within our borders, you have to compete with the many foreign graduate students who come to study in the U.S., and who are granted citizenship upon completion of a Ph.D. The result is even greater difficulty securing a job at the Ph.D. and M.S. level, and a dilution of your compensation at that level. Growing up, the only thing we ever heard was that we needed to go to college. They showed us cute images and videos of the space shuttle, atom colliders, nano-materials, lasers, and told us that we'd get to work with cool technologies like those by going to college. And in the middle of it, it was very implicit that you'd be living more comfortably than the kid next to you who didn't go to college. Oh, the irony of it all. Being at the end of this education trainwreck, it's become clear that I'm unemployable, that I will never get the chance to work with anything that's remotely cool, and that I will probably never even get to own a home because I sank myself into a debt that will follow me for all my life - my education debt. Somwhere along the lines, our educational system failed us, and I'm deeply convinced that education simply does not make sense anymore. Academia has become a mere cashcow for university officials who build their careers on the backs of graduate students - who do the teaching for introductory courses, and who do the actual lab work that provides the basis for their publications, so they can further their careers. The higher university officials get corporate-style fat-cat compensation packages that hover around $1million/year, and continue to focus more on making the campus look cute by building outragesouly expensive buildings than in improving the actual quality of education. ...and that is not even getting into the obvious fact that the best researchers make the worst teachers. But universities only want the best researchers - leaving students out in the rain when it comes to actual learning. In many cases, these researchers can't even speak english, and discourage students from even bothering to ask questions. It's so much easier to just change to a non-science field where professors still speak a little bit of english. In all this, the educational lending industry benefits; the textbook publishing industry benefits; academia benefits - all by virtue of the higher revenues that arbitrarily incereasing student enrollments provides. And industry benefits because the supply/demand balance of college graduates gets so tilted, their worth is watered down. Welcome to the world of "new worker deflation" - probably the only thing in this country losing value year after year. And in the end what do they do? They try to save their skin by telling you that the real value of college is "gaining knowledge for knowledge sake". Yeah, but it doesn't have to cost me 100K to gain that knowledge. If it's "knowledge for knowledge sake", how come *they* keep charging you more and more and more? Clearly they can't wait to get their hands in your pockets - but somehow you have to be a good neutered little boy and agree that it's ok, because you're "gaining knowledge". 1. I can learn on my own 2. I'm as unemployable with an M.S. in Engineering as I was without any education 3. I'm deeply in debt 4. I'm 7 years short of time that I could have spent learning a real trade Is graduate school worth it? Thank you, college.