Education plays a very significant role in the life of any person: students want to get proper education in order to get good job, help people, and earn money; parents always care about their children and want to choose the best institution they can; teachers try to use the best programs to learn students and explain them new material.
Lots of community/junior colleges chose the open-door policy in order to admit different students. This system of admission does not care students’ age, background knowledge, and abilities.
This is why many tutors face certain problems while educating students with such diversities (Hyerle et al., 2004).
There are lots of college educators, who have or had already had some influence on the development of junior/community colleges. Some of them will be mentioned right now.
William Moore, Jr. was a community college educator, who analyzed changes within the existed educational systems and was able to describe the steps, which needed to be taken to achieve success in education.
He started his career of kindergarten teacher, then he was a teacher at public schools and community colleges, and, finally, started teaching at universities.
He passed through all levels of education, this is why his ideas were quite reliable and educative. He admitted that it is necessary to pay “special attention to the way each minority student differs from the traditional college student, for whom the present system of high education is planned” (Baker et al., 1994).
Dr. Ruby Evans is a college educator, who is currently influencing community/minority college systems. She teaches at Santana Fe Community College; in 1998, she was named an Outstanding Faculty member.
Even such awards are given because of certain actions and contribution. She is known as an innovative educator, who teaches statistics classes at classrooms and online and promotes integrating teaching for other educational institutions.
James Davis, Jr. was another college educator, who made a considerable impact into the development of education. He was known due to his passion to travel and communicate with people of different nations and races.
After the war, he became a college educator; he was one of those, who did not care the nationality of his students; he was ready to teach any student, who had a desire to become educative.
His activities were noticed by many other educators: some of those teachers did not want to share his points of view, some one supported him. He died in 2008 from Parkinson’s disease, but he is still alive in minds’ of those students, whom he helped one day.
Carol Greenfield is a modern college educator, who has already made a significant contribution to education and is still continuing helping students improve their abilities and learn new material. This college educator is known by her My Only Sunshine, as story about her childhood, her problems, and her fears (Lev 2003).
With the help of such works, educators make a wonderful attempt to attract students’ attention and give a couple of advice unwittingly for these students. Such approach is good indeed, and it is better for other educators to choose such ways in order to amaze, help, and teach.
All these above-mentioned college educators help or helped their students in different ways. Of course, their actions and ideas are known not for all people in this world, but still, their help is in mind of those students, who improved their knowledge and got a chance to live successfully cooperating with those educators.
Reference List
Baker, G. A., Dudziak, J., & Tyler, P. (1994). A Handbook on the Community College in America: Its History, Mission, and Management. Greenwood Press.
Hyerle, D., Apler, L., & Curtis, S. (2004). Students Success with Thinking Maps: School-Based Research, Results, and Models for Achievement Using Visual Tools. Corwin Press.
Lev. R. (2003). Shine the Light: Sexual Abuse and Healing in the Jewish Community. UPNE.