SAU Honors College

The SAU Honors College was founded in 2003 by Dr. David Rankin, president of SAU. Dr. Lynne Belcher served as founding director and is retired from SAU. The Honors College seeks and admits qualified students who seek to pursue a serious academic program with equally gifted peers and committed teachers. Honors classes are small and provide academically enriching opportunities for students and the faculty who teach them. Currently, SAU enrolls nearly 170 honors students and graduates about 66% of admitees in four years or less. Anyone interested in applying to the Honors College or seeking further information should contact the director, Dr. Edward P. Kardas at epkardas@saumag.edu or at 870 904-8897.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Cecil, Allie: Credentialing


When looking into life after college, students must think of the pros and or cons of their professions. In my case, early childhood development, there will always be a need for practitioners. According to the latest statistics there are 67,140 elementary schools in the United States, which would seem to grant me multiple possibilities for being hired. If I don’t graduate, I will be forced to live a life with fewer opportunities and with a much lower salary than that of a college graduate.
            In the essay “Death by Degrees” it states how China set up a three level exam for the whole country. This exam, as a whole, was the most challenging thing that Chinese students faced. With this exam in place the main people who take it are those of wealth and high status, but when a young man from a small and poor village goes to take the test and turns fails it. This makes that boy, Hong Xiuquan, start to think about his future but he soon realizes that he has no way of going anywhere, yet he is still persistent and tries the test more times. When he fails in his attempts he soon gives up on it all and converts from the ways of Confucius to the views of Christianity. With this new lease on life he takes it to a completely different level and starts the biggest revolt in the 19th century, the Taiping Revolt.
            Today, it is becoming a must to have your masters before applying for a teaching job. With the way teaching jobs are now, it is a necessity that get to achieve a higher education to become more successful and to have the opportunity to obtain a job. Most school systems wouldn’t hire a person with a bachelor’s degree only. This relates to Death by Degrees and the fact that we control our future and the hard work we put into our studies determines how successful we will be for the rest of our lives.

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