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Oscar King
Student#: AC 1010117
Course: Achieving Academic Excellence

' 'Why College Education Is Important To Me ' '

College education is very important to me because, I can look back and say I have achieved something for myself or personal satisfaction. I 've graduated! I have my Associate or Bachelor degree, my education goal is accomplished. Now it 's time to enter into the challenging work-force market. A job market where you must compete against other applicants and a market that 's caters to what I 've been studying towards like, Business, Education, Sport or Security, just to name a few.

When you have a college degree you are always ,or most likely a step ahead of the other person who does not have
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& Phillips, S.R. (Mar.- Apr. 1975). Components of an Effective Faculty Development Program. Journal of Higher Education, 46 (2) 177-211. The essential article on developing a faculty development center, which established the P.O.D. Model. Faculty development is broken down into three parts: (1) Instructional Development (including Instructional Evaluation (peer and student evaluation), Instructional Diagnosis, Micro teaching, Educational Methodology and Technology, and Curriculum Development).

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(2)Organisational Development( including Departmental Decision-Making and Conflict Management, Departmental Team Building, Management Development), and (3) Personal Development (including Faculty Interview, Life Planning Workshops, Interpersonal Skills Training, Personal Growth Workshop, and Supportive and Therapeutic Counselling)

Chrism, N.V.N. (1998). The Role of Educational Developers in Institutional Change: From the Basement Office to the Front Office. To Improve the Academy,

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