ACADEMIC ADVISING – CASE

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Assignment Overview
Your learning objectives:

Explore the role of advising on a specific student population
Evaluate the role of advising on inclusive practices at college campuses
Examine how advising can positively or negatively impact a students perception of the campus
Select and read ONE of the following articles:

Darling, R. A. (2015). Creating an Institutional Academic Advising Culture That Supports Commuter Student Success. New Directions for Student Services, (150), 87-96.

Simpson, R. (2018). Changing how we think about advising online students: One-stop student service advising model. College and University, 93(1), 2-9.

Roscoe, J. L. (2015). Advising African American and Latino students. Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 31(2), 48-60.

ZamaniGallaher, E. M., & Choudhuri, D. D. (2016). Tracing LGBTQ Community College Students’ Experiences. New Directions for Community Colleges, (174), 47-63.

Read BOTH of the following articles:

Suvedi, M., Ghimire, R. P., Millenbah, K. F., & Shrestha, K. (2015). Undergraduate students’ perceptions of academic advising. NACTA Journal, 59(3), 227-233.

Hatch, D. K., & Garcia, C. E. (2017). Academic advising and the persistence intentions of community college students in their first weeks in college. Review of Higher Education, 40(3), 353-390.

Case Assignment
Write a 3-page paper that includes the following components:

Introduction
Discuss the role of advising in creating an inclusive environment for a specific group of students
Reference the Darling (2015), Simpson (2018), Roscoe (2015) or Zamani-Gallaher and Choudhuri (2016) article.
How can advising positively or negatively impact a students perception of the campus?
Reference the Suvedi, Ghimire, Millebah, and Shrestha (2015) and Hatch and Garcia (2017) articles.
Conclusion
Assignment Expectations
Your work should be written with the following points in mind.

This paper should be at least 3 pages, not counting the title page and reference page.
A clear introduction that orients a reader to the essay main content, and the main points discussed should be provided.
A well-developed, well-balanced essay body that develops each point in its own paragraph should be included.
A concise conclusion that summarizes the whole essay should also be included.
Include at least three references. Quoted material should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. When material is copied verbatim from external sources, it must be enclosed in quotes.
The references should be cited within the text and also listed at the end of the assignment in the References section. Follow the APA Style format; see www.apa.org.
At least one in-text citation must be provided for each reference.
A reference page which follows APA requirements should be included.
The essay should be organized in a clear and coherent manner.
The paper should be double spaced with font size of 12.
Your writing should:
Be clear, logical, and precise
Have breadth and depth
Show critical thinking skills

Suicide

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1. What do you think is the contributing factors to the increase in suicide among among active-duty service members?

2. What measures can be taken to identify risk factors for suicide in active-duty service members?

3. What is a suicide plan and what does it consist of?

Week 2 Assignment 1

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Assignment 1: Policy Brief

The Federal Budget and how it gets made is a complex and lengthy process that has important implications for Federal and State agencies. Obviously, funding for each agency is going to affect that agencys budget. Likewise, federal funding for social programs, education, and other programs such as disaster relief affects how states fund those programs in their own budgets. Using  2017 America First A Blueprint to Make America Great Again (link below), compare the federal budget with the budget of the Department of Education note how they are interconnected.

In a two- to three-page paper (not including cover and reference page), address the following:

Summarize the mission and budget of the department you selected.

Does the proposed budget of the department you chose include policy actions to reduce the deficit in the near future? 

Does the proposed budget put the government on a path to reduce the federal debt within a decade to a sustainable percentage of GDP?

Does the proposed budget align revenues and spending closely over the long term?

Does the proposed budget restrain major entitlement programs or introduce changes in spending and tax policies that will have cumulative beneficial fiscal effects over time?

Your assignment must follow these requirements:

Include a short introduction and use the questions as section headers.

Please include at least three references, not including the presidents budget and the budget of the department of your choice (peer-reviewed not required, as most of your sources will be within the last one to three years).

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf 

Deliver In 12hrs

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You work in the office of a personal financial planner. He has asked you to develop a draft of an initial PowerPoint presentation with detailed speaker notes to talk about hedge funds as alternatives available to this company for fund acquisition and the associated risk to the company.