1. ** Highlight Important Projects and Coursework
Showcase coursework and projects directly related to your career aspirations to include your academic accomplishments in your portfolio
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**1. ** Highlight Important Projects and Coursework
Showcase coursework and projects directly related to your career aspirations to include your academic accomplishments in your portfolio. For instance, if you are interested in a profession in environmental sustainability, you may mention information about studies you have done on sustainable urban planning, renewable energy initiatives, or conservation efforts. Give details about the projects you worked on, the abilities you acquired, and how they might help you deal with problems in the real world.
2. Display Leadership and Community Engagement: Highlight your participation in academic and extracurricular activities that advance society to demonstrate your dedication to social change. Volunteer labor, involvement in student organizations, and leadership positions in community initiatives are a few examples. For instance, if you participated in a student-led initiative to bring attention to a particular social issue, describe your contribution, the results attained, and how this experience has influenced your perception of the University’s focus on social change.
In the following respects, each of these tactics complements the University’s concentration on social change:
– Strategy 1: By highlighting your pertinent coursework and projects, you show your commitment to learning things that you can use to solve difficulties in the actual world. This supports the University’s objective of cultivating a community of prepared learners to contribute positively to society. Suppose you are studying healthcare policy, for instance, and have created a plan to increase access to healthcare services in underserved areas. In that case, this immediately links to the University’s focus on resolving social inequities.
– Strategy 2: Showcasing your leadership and community service endeavors shows you are dedicated to positively influencing outside the classroom. Producing graduates actively involved in bringing about positive change in their communities is important to the University. A good example of how the University’s principles of fostering diversity and inclusion are reflected in your work is if you were involved in planning a campus-wide event to do so.
By including these tactics in your portfolio, you may demonstrate your academic success and congruence with the University’s aim to promote social change via involvement and education.
QUESTION
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To Prepare:
Reflect on strategies that you can pursue in developing portfolios or portfolio elements that focus on academic achievements.
Review one or more samples from your own research of resources focused on portfolio development.
Post an explanation of at least two strategies for including academic activities and accomplishments into your professional development goals. Then, explain how those goals may align with the University’s emphasis on social change. Be specific and provide examples.
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- https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates
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