Guest Bloggers: Melissa McCreery, VP of Development at Kilns College Do Grades Hinder the Learning Process? According to the story “Secret World of Student Cheaters” featured on the Today Show earlier this week, a new survey reports that 63 percent of college students admit to cheating. It seems a majority of students are looking for
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Guest Blog by Melissa McCreery A week ago, I wrote a post [Education by the Numbers] highlighting some (slightly alarming) statistics about higher education in America. Through those numbers we saw an education system with some serious issues to address. Issues that Kilns College is tackling head on. While student loan debt is hovering frighteningly
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Guest Blog by Melissa McCreery Working in the higher education arena, I come across a lot of shocking statistical information—I mean truly shocking. For example, did you know student loan debt is currently hovering near the one trillion dollar mark? One trillion dollars. For the record, that’s a 1 followed by twelve zeros. That’s not
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Guest Blogger: Melissa McCreery When I began my typical social media ritual this past Monday morning, I found my Facebook and Twitter feeds overflowing with some of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most popular quotes, in observation of the MLK holiday. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of
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By Guest Blogger: Melissa McCreery I recently read an article about the decline of Liberal Arts colleges in America. It appears that administrators at many liberal arts schools may be bailing on their mission statement—to provide a classical approach to education that teaches students to question, analyze, and think critically—in favor of adding vocational and professional
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I was just thinking back on the church history trip I lead through Kilns College. I remember being in Zurich getting ready to head to Geneva the next morning, then the next day to Pisa, then to Florence and then a few days in Rome before flying back. There’s nothing like actually standing in places
Guest Bloggers: Melissa McCreery, VP of Development at Kilns College College students tend to get a bad rap. The prevalent stereotype is that students are self- serving party animals that care little about the future or consequences of their actions. Additionally, they’re usually labeled as cheap (for example, often failing to scrounge up a decent
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Guest Bloggers: Melissa McCreery, VP of Development at Kilns College My husband and I—along with a multitude of other people across the country—went to see Lincoln on it’s opening weekend. The movie brought in $21 million that weekend—quite a sizable income considering it was up against Twilight’s Breaking Dawn and Skyfall, the latest James Bond
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Editor’s Note: Melissa is the Vice President of Development at Kilns College. By Guest Blogger: Melissa McCreery I came across this video while researching an entirely different topic for a different assignment. The New York Times video—coupled with an email I received from a prominent higher education journal inviting me to attend a seminar on Student Loan
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Editor’s Note: Melissa is the Vice President of Development at Kilns College. By Guest Blogger: Melissa McCreery “How can a writing class possibly help me land a job as a aerospace engineer?” “Which class looks better on my resume—Biochemistry or Spanish?” “Do employers look favorably on applicants who study abroad?” Over the course of my
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