1-on-1 Placement Conferences

What do we do in our 10 minutes?

• Confirm Portfolio pass or fail (you get a sheet with rubric, and can take this with you when you meet your academic advisor)

• Discuss areas to improve on, moving forward

• Discuss your schedule for Fall 2016/ Discuss which course to sign up for next (002, 101A, or 101)

Due to Department meeting conflicts, these are the times I can meet each of you for placement conferences. I prefer that we meet on Monday

Monday, 5/9:

1:00: Lourdes
1:10: Rebecca
1:20: Jessica Flores
1:30: Timmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy
1:40: Nariah
1:50: Tyron
2:00: Moussa
2:10: Ossie
2:20: Karen E.
2:30: Moire
2:40: Jessica Alvarez
2:50: Jersica
3:00: Mario
3:10: Josue
3:20: Geferson
3:30:

Unified Paragraph 2:

What is one lifelong intellectual question you want to pursue answers for in your college experience, and how do you plan to implement that into your studies (classes, majors, extracurricular, etc.)?

For your last written assignment:

• For the next 40 minutes, type up your one-paragraph response to the movie. Make sure your paragraph demonstrates concepts learned over this semester to create a unified and in-depth idea:

• PRE
• introductory phrases for outside sources
• linking key words:
• subject to subject
• object to subject
• Starting sentences with a clear noun and a powerful verb
• transitional words/phrases  
• combing sentences techniques (reviewed when editing run-ons)
• IND; IND
• IND , (FANBOYS) IND
• IND; conjunctive adverb (moreover, however, IND)

What does a college degree mean?

Here's an interesting article that is relevant to all of us in college: "College is worth it if you have these six experiences."

• "[Creating more satisfied student outcomes] starts with changing what we believe. If we believe a college degree is an automatic ticket to a better career and life, we fail. Students, parents, higher education staff and faculty, and employers need to work hard to ensure we are collectively making the most of it. If we believe the only measure of success is salary, we fail. There is so much more value to college than what we are systematically measuring now. We ought to pay careful attention to these less traditional measures and the things that correlate with them" (Busteed).

And here is another one which highlights that importance of writing and speaking skills, from The Washington Post: "Should higher education aim to secure students a paycheck, fulfillment … or both?"

• "“What is the earthly use of a liberal [arts] education?” [journalist Fareed Zakaria] asks, and he supplies a very good answer: It teaches students to write. By teaching them to write, it teaches them to think. He observes that “writing forces you to make choices and brings clarity and order to your ideas,” and notes that no less a titan than Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos (who owns The Washington Post) forces his senior managers to write six-page, narrative memos for every meeting. No jargon. No bullet points. Just clear thinking — a nonpareil workplace virtue" (Auoun).