What if you or someone you love were experiencing a medical emergency but were unable to communicate with the people trained to help you? You’d be unable to tell those healthcare professionals what symptoms you were experiencing or what other conditions you might have that they’d need to know before treating you. Nightmare situations like…
We hear a lot about “green jobs,” but do you know exactly what that phrase means? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) defines green jobs in these two ways: Jobs in businesses that produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources. Jobs in which workers’ duties involve making their…
We all interact with other human beings on some level—through our personal life, professional duties, educational pursuits, and/or hobbies. How these institutions and groups interact and influence our beliefs and actions is considered so important that there’s an entire field of study devoted to it. Sociology, as defined by Britannica, is a “social science that studies human…
Many young students dread stumbling across an unknown word while reading aloud to the class. Looking for context in pictures or surrounding sentences, students in this situation tend to guess and hope that they’ve landed on the correct pronunciation. The key to word recognition, however, lies not in contextual guessing but in decoding. By identifying…
Think back to your first placement as a nursing student. No matter how many hours you spent poring over notes or quizzing yourself with flashcards, it likely wasn’t enough to quell the butterflies in your stomach. Becoming a registered nurse may have felt like a far-off goal as you cared for patients, shadowed shift nurses,…
Industrial technology is the use of tools, systems, and technical knowledge to improve how industrial work gets done. It draws from areas like engineering, manufacturing, and management to make processes safer and more productive. Professionals in this field help organizations work more efficiently across industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and petroleum. Because industrial technologists can…
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born—that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” — Warren Bennis Do you dream of making a real impact in the healthcare field—not just treating patients, but shaping the systems that care…
If you want to earn a degree faster without putting your life on pause, an accelerated online degree program may be worth a closer look. An accelerated degree program is designed to help students complete coursework in a shorter time frame than a traditional program. Instead of longer semesters, you’ll move through condensed sessions that cover the same material in less…
The terms mainstreaming (integration) and inclusion are often used interchangeably. The careful implementation of these contrasting teaching approaches, however, can have a profound impact on the academic outcomes of students with disabilities. Knowing the difference between inclusion and mainstreaming can help you better reach students with and without disabilities, so we encourage you to join…
Before GPS came built into our phones and cars, many of us relied on printed directions from MapQuest. You’d enter your destination, print out a list of step-by-step instructions, and hope you didn’t miss a turn—because if you did, rerouting wasn’t an option. If you happened to miss an exit or take a wrong turn,…