Posted on: 31 Jul 2024
Healthcare has become increasingly central within the U.S. economy, given the country’s aging population and transition to service-centered industry. Meanwhile, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing warns of an impending nurse shortage within the next decade. In this context, salaries for nurses vary widely according to location, specialization, training, and employer need. Several nursing […]
Posted on: 22 Jun 2024
The noble, cash-strapped educator is an unfortunate but meaningful cliché in the U.S. It indexes our increasingly austere approach to education funding that has resulted in dismal teacher recruitment and retention metrics. Needless to say, a wholesale transformation of our political priorities is in order. However, in the meantime it’s important to look for ways […]
Posted on: 03 Jun 2024
Political science is an incredibly broad and variated discipline, containing numerous subfields that attract immense amounts of research. Researchers in the field can utilize diverse empirical or theoretical methodologies, sometimes in combination. There are specialized fields based on geographic areas, time periods, political forms and institutions, and bodies of thought. Researchers might aim to impact […]
Posted on: 21 May 2024
Writing assignments asking students to engage with social justice/social issues topics target skills vitally important to success in college and beyond. They require writers to demonstrate critical, ethical, and dynamic thinking around demanding topics that present no quick and easy solution. Often, they will call for some amount of research, building textual and media literacy […]
Posted on: 07 May 2024
The title of Animal Farm captures its central focus on a collective rather than a single character. In this respect, the famed novella is markedly different from writer George Orwell’s other world-renowned work, 1984. 1984 forces identification with one man, Winston Smith, so that readers feel the full weight of totalitarian oppression he experiences. Patrick […]
Posted on: 07 May 2024
In exploring Animal Farm’s characters and themes, George Orwell’s allegorical treatment of twentieth-century history has been an unavoidable topic. The hyper-canonical novella has been the locus of endless interrogation about its relationship to Soviet-era communism. Indeed, its intellectual appeal mostly rests in tracing how its political theories come out of specific historical conditions. But that […]
Posted on: 01 May 2024
The diversity essay has newfound significance in college application packages following the 2023 SCOTUS ruling against race-conscious admissions. Affirmative action began as an attempt to redress unequal access to economic and social mobility associated with higher education. But before the 2023 ruling, colleges frequently defended the policy based on their “compelling interest” in fostering diverse […]
Posted on: 13 Feb 2024
The modern university is an incredibly complex institution with many factors affecting the experience of students who attend it. This makes attempts to find a “happiness quotient” universally describing every student’s college experience seem more than a little foolish. How do you weigh the several competing and often contradictory academic, material, and social attributes within […]