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Guest Blog: 5 Tips For Success For the Non-Traditional Student
July 9, 2015Many online students are non-traditional, meaning they aren’t right out of high school seeking a “traditional” college experience. This isn’t a bad thing. In fact, non-traditional students are often blessed with the perspective, experience and knowledge to value their resources. Unfortunately, many universities still tailor their product to the traditional student, leaving the growing number of non-traditional students to figure it out for themselves. Although they’re prepared to do so, starting or coming back to school at a more mature life stage is difficult. I view my mission as coordinator for a degree completion program as one laden with great responsibility—helping these students succeed. Here are 5 tips I believe can help online and non-traditional students as they work toward the completion of their degrees.
M. Ed. Student Tracy Arner Gets Formal Training Through Her Online Program
July 9, 2015Tracy Arner, a current student in the M. Ed. Learning Design and Technology program, has gradually evolved in her profession from an accountant to someone who provides training for local and state governments on all of the aspects of financial management that they would need to know about.
How M.S. Pharmacy Alumna Charnelle Ross Used Her Degree for a Career Shift
July 9, 2015Charnelle Thomas, a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, attained her undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Clarke Atlanta University, but is now a Global Regulatory Affairs Technical Leader II, specializing in medical devices for Kimberly Clarke. This drastic career change didn’t just come about randomly- it took hard work on…
Looking For Scholarships? Here Are Some Excellent Sites.
July 7, 2015A new semester is fast approaching, as the summer passes its mid-point. This means that students are looking for scholarships again, and there are a lot of unhelpful and misleading websites out there. Here are a few that are truly worth taking a look at! Some of the scholarships featured have due dates that have already passed, but that's no matter, because applying as soon as possible is the best idea when it comes to scholarships--and if you don't get one for this coming semester, you could earn yourself some money for spring.
Gwinnett County Schools Hiring Highest Number of UGA Teaching Grads
July 2, 2015Recently, UGA’s College of Education released a survey to 2014 graduates with a teacher-preparation degree, and found out that 62% of respondents, or 325 graduates, were hired by a Georgia city or county school district. Among these districts, Gwinnett County Public Schools hired 75 first-year teachers from UGA. Fulton…
Cheryl Stanga Took A Chance With Her Online Degree & Found Her Place
July 1, 2015Cheryl Stanga graduated from Emory University in 2008 with a double degree in Political Science and Women's Studies. She graduated right into the midst of the Great Recession. It was not a great time to graduate with liberal arts degrees--even if she had two of them. A lot of her friends were going off to law school and not getting jobs, but she knew that she had to get a job and think about improving or changing her career.
Financing Your Master’s Degree
June 25, 2015When it comes to attaining your master's degree, there are many considerations: time, convenience, cost, etc. The cost aspect can often be a large deterrent to many who desire a master's degree, but what they may fail to consider are the many different avenues that can be taken to finance a master's degree. Below, we will list some options, which are by no means comprehensive, but are a start to acquiring a method for financing your graduate degree.
Online Professor Sally Krisel Speaks Out About Gifted Learners
June 23, 2015In an article recently released by the District Administration, Dr. Sally Krisel, a professor within the online UGA Ed.S. in Educational Psychology, Gifted and Creative Education program, contributed to a discussion about gifted learners and their treatment within the U.S. school system.
This World Traveler Came Back to Her Roots to Pursue Her Online M.Ed.
June 18, 2015Emily Heath LaFon is a UGA graduate student living in Munich, Germany. A native of Georgia, LaFon has been teaching at an international school in Germany for the past four years where she has a classroom of 19 third graders representing 17 nations. When she made the move, she didn’t know…
From Student to Professor, Then Back Again: Dr. Iris Saltiel’s Unusual Journey
June 10, 2015Dr. Iris Saltiel is a dynamic woman who has been teaching online since 1998 at Troy University and Columbus State University. But the switch from professor to student provided a surprising, yet welcome, challenge in the fall of 2014 when she began taking courses online in UGA’s Graduate Certificate…