Due WED (04/11) before 11:59pm.Because this proposal essay has been a bulky one with high aspirations, I will not be modifying the FD3 prompt and basic structure for the essay assignment. You should upload an essay with SIX distinct sections:
Here is the Self-Assessment Gradesheet for EP3 that you will be turning in on Thursday morning. It has all accountable points for an A grade on it.
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Blaine Sholmire
4/11/2018 06:12:16 pm
Are the Local High Schools Responsible For
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Romeo Pimentel
4/11/2018 07:30:17 pm
INTRODUCTION
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Romeo Pimentel
4/11/2018 07:31:15 pm
SOLUTION 4
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Hugo Acuna
4/11/2018 08:15:00 pm
COM: My Proposal for a Better Gym
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William Cowan
4/11/2018 08:18:49 pm
A Proposal to the COM board of directors
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Elvis Alam
4/11/2018 08:20:36 pm
A Proposal to Make Gym Space Bigger
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Elvis Alam
4/11/2018 08:21:17 pm
, www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/how-to-get-people-to-say-yes-to-what-you-want-according-to-science.html.
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Amiel S. Garcia Rodriguez
4/11/2018 08:38:20 pm
A Proposal for Animal Therapy on Campus
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Amiel S. Garcia Rodriguez
4/11/2018 08:40:07 pm
absent since the formalization of our institution. An animal therapy program for students and staff is essential to the success of our academic community. A therapy dog can be beneficial to students because it is trained to provide love and comfort to people in long-term care, hospitals, retirement homes, schools, mental health institutions, or stressful situations like natural disaster areas. Students experience stressful situations that a therapy animal can help cope with. Unlike a service dog, which is trained to assist a person with a physical or mental disability with basic everyday tasks. A therapy dog can be any dog certified by the American Kennel Club that meets their criteria. The criteria is simply for a dog to must be well behaved, friendly, patient, confident, gentle, and at ease in all situations (American Kennel Club). Also therapy dogs must enjoy constant human contact by a string of strangers. Of the $16.25 million USD maintenance tax bond approved by the college’s Board of Trustees the cost of a therapy animal is almost non-existent. Local organizations like Smiles and Fur Friends Houston and Faithful Paws Pet Therapy are dedicated to bring awareness to our communities about therapy dogs, that they offer visits free of charge. Most therapy dog programs are funded mostly through donations, and the fees for training and certification are almost always provided by the dogs’ owners. Also, therapy dogs stay with their families, not at the school, so the cost for food, supplies, and veterinary bills go to the owners of the dogs (Callahan). The only cost to colleges like COM is the time needed to arrange said visits to our campus and advertisement for them (Castellano). It’s a win-win situation our college could surely take advantage of. Our campus can start off an animal therapy program with one volunteer dog and his/her handler for a trial of a semester. If all goes well, then more dogs can be added to the program.
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Amiel S. Garcia Rodriguez
4/11/2018 08:42:00 pm
SOLUTION 3
Amiel S. Garcia Rodriguez
4/11/2018 08:43:10 pm
therapy and she responded that she was for animal therapy because animals are intuitive and they know when something is wrong. Then, I asked her what are some of the causes of stress in students. Her response was outside factors like disabilities and their home environments. I thought this was pretty interesting because our success in school depends on who we have as a support system and if no support system is present, then a student is more likely to fail. My next question was how many students came into the student success center stressed. Her response was more than half of the students are stressed in some way, shape or form. My final question was If she thought all students could benefit from animal therapy. She responded that not all students would be open to meeting with a therapy animal and those students who are allergic to animals would definitely avoid it at all costs. Our conversation opened my eyes as to what COM faculty has to say about animal therapy.
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Amiel S. Garcia Rodriguez
4/11/2018 08:44:15 pm
like college campuses. In many campuses around the country service dogs are permitted to come to class, study and follow a student who has a disability and needs help performing some daily tasks (American Veterinary Medical Association). Therapy animals on the other hand are not permitted to public grounds because they’re is a clear distinction between service animals and therapy animals as mentioned before. Service dogs are “Any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability” (AVMA). The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to the individual's disability. Under the ADA therapy dogs have no legal rights and it is why I ask the COM board of trustees to consider animal therapy for the student body. The ADA and service dog legislation leaves room for fraud by people who want to take their animals anywhere they please. Just like any other public facility, I’m sure COM has had to deal with students falsifying paperwork for their ‘service animal’ acquiring a therapy animal for the campus can both benefit the student body as well as raise awareness to what therapy dogs are and where they can legally be.
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Amiel S. Garcia Rodriguez
4/11/2018 08:44:57 pm
Castellano, Jill. “Pet Therapy is A Nearly Cost-Free Anxiety Reducer on College Campuses.” Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jillcastellano/2015/07/06/pet-therapy-is-a-nearly-cost-free-anxiety-reducer-on-college-campuses/3/#1c32f183134f. 06 July 2015.
Jamillah
4/11/2018 08:56:51 pm
Jamillah Leah Davis
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Jamillah (works cited)
4/11/2018 08:58:04 pm
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Sydney Sotengco
4/11/2018 09:07:22 pm
1.It has been observed that College of the Mainland is currently undergoing renovations to improve the campus. This is happening because they want to make the learning process more comfortable for the students. What we need is a sensory friendly room. A sensory friendly room is a quiet and relaxing place where students can sleep or do homework. This room is designed to develop a person’s sense with lighting, music and other objects. It can be used as a therapy room by relaxing a person completely, this helps those with autism and/or other disabilities. Not only can students with disabilities benefit from this, everyone else can too! Essentially, this room would be used to do homework, relax and even for taking naps. 2.Students are constantly complaining about being tired or stressed. Most of them have more than one class with homework due the next day. This causes students to stay up all night trying to finish their work. They come to school tired with incomplete assignments and attempt to finish it before class. But the very few places available for studying and homework are too loud, so it is hard to do last minute homework. Many students have this problem, but it could be solved with a sensory friendly room. In the sensory friendly room students can catch up on work and/or sleep in a very quiet environment. 3. This problem needs to be fixed because the performance rates of students will go up. At the end of every semester the Board of Directors have to send in a report stating the performance rates of students. With the help of a sensory friendly room, the rates will go up from more people wanting to come to COM due to this unique concept. It is rare for a college to have such a room, but the ones that do are very popular. They are interviewed and published in newspapers and articles all over the internet. If COM added this room it could get a lot of publicity and good ratings. With a sensory friendly room the performance rates will go up drastically. 4.As stated in the second paragraph, lots of students are stressed and tired. They’re always complaining about these problems. Even if the students were to try to sleep and/or study in the current environment, it wouldn’t be possible. The given places for homework, studying and possibly napping are way too loud. Other students aren’t courteous enough to those with these needs. Yes, the library could be a place to do these things but there are problems with going there also. When the few designated places for studying and homework are full, people go to the library with friends. This causes the library to be very loud and even when being asked to quiet down, nobody does. As for napping, taking a nap in a place where it isn’t meant for napping is demoralizing. The problems could be solved with a sensory room. In the sensory room, students can sleep, study, do homework or just relax. Also, the noise complaints would go down a lot since everyone would be more relaxed and rested. The sensory room is also beneficial to those with autism and/or other disabilities. 5.Sensory friendly rooms combine different stimuli to help engage and develop senses. This includes calming colors, lights, sounds, calming objects and a very calming aroma to sooth a person. Rooms like this are used as a therapy room for people with disabilities. They also are used for positive change, create a safe space, developing self-care and many other self helping activities. Not only can those with disabilities can use this for their own benefit, those without disabilities can experience these activities. People with disabilities already feel like outcasts so creating this room will bring everyone together. It could also bring in more people with disabilities to the college.
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Sydney Sotengco
4/11/2018 09:09:22 pm
6. A sensory friendly room will help with the students’ grades by providing a place to nap. According to Annie Walton Doyle from sleepopolis, there are fourteen benefits of napping for college students. Napping improves alertness, memory, creativity, memory, concentration and decision making. It also relieves stress, boosts immune system and helps the students get the hours of sleep they need. “Taking what’s known as a “NASA nap” of 26 minutes has been proven to enhance alertness by 54%” (Doyle). Taking short naps can improve motor skills and mental clarity, along with memory and mood swings. When a student doesn’t get enough sleep, they tend to be distracted and unmotivated. Therefore, not taking a nap throughout the day can cause a student to have a very low performance rate. The sensory friendly room can raise the grades of students by giving them a place to study and nap occasionally. 7. Sensory rooms usually cost around 20,000 dollars. In order to fund the sensory friendly room, COM can start a fundraiser. In Steve Odland’s article he gives steps on how to start a fundraiser. “Start by developing your vision and mission… Next you need a name… Differentiate your charity… Write a plan… Start your plan… Fundraising.” (Odland). The COM Board of Directors would announce their plan to see how many people were for it. Depending on how many people liked the idea, COM could start a fundraiser. With the help of Odland’s article and the people who want a sensory room, COM could raise enough money for it. There are also other ways to fund the sensory friendly room. For example, Kennebec Valley Community College students made a sensory room. Their own students funded and created the room for other students to enjoy. The students of the Occupational Therapy Assistant program were awarded with a grant from the Carl D. Perkins Fund. With the help of the grant, the students designed their sensory room where every student can relax and/or nap. 8.Adelphi University was one of the popular colleges who added a sensory room to their campus. They first were able to fund this by an anonymous donation. After the donation and inspiration to build the room, the college decided to add a fee to the students’ tuition. COM can fund the sensory friendly room by adding a fee to their students’ tuition. Similar to the way COM adds a gym membership fee to the students’ tuition. Other colleges made their sensory rooms with donations then had a temporary fee in order to get into the room. The fee price depended on how long the student want to be in the room. Charging the students would help the college gain more money while also keeping the room less crowded. COM could do either of these options to fund the sensory friendly room. 9. COM cares deeply about the health of their students, they want every student to be in the best health. Adding a sensory friendly room can positively contribute to the mental health of students. Many psychiatric wards have been installing sensory rooms to help with the patients’ mental health. An unknown author from the website, Snoezelen explained the benefits of sensory rooms for mental health, “create immersive environments where someone doesn’t feel threatened, and can feel safe and calm”(Snoezelen). A sensory friendly room can help people with anxiety calm down and relax. Personally, I would benefit a great amount from this. A nurse, A. Bjorkdahl, wrote an article about what they observed when adding a sensory room. Bjorkdahl wrote, “...there was a strong emphasis on more positive experiences, such as letting go of control and observing an increase in patients’ self-confidence, emotional self-care and well-being”(Bjorkdahl). This nurse, including many others, have found many positive improvements in mental health from sensory rooms. The students of COM will see major improvements in their mental health if COM added a sensory friendly room. 10.Not only can a sensory room help students with poor mental health, stress and/or tiredness, but it can also help those with disabilities feel more comfortable in college. The types of disabilities that can be helped with a sensory room include autism, sensory processing disorder and many other disabilities. Sensory processing disorder means people with these problems: “over-responding to unexpected touch, covering ears often in crowded settings, picky eater, gags when smelling something, seems clumsy, does not notice when injured, frequent meltdowns...” (Koscinski). Many people have these quirks which could be minimized by a sensory friendly room. Philip Raphael wrote in his article on Snoezelen, “Things can certainly be overwhelming for someone who processes their senses in a different way” (Raphael). For instance, people with autism deal with lots of sensory stimulation throughout the
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Sydney Sotengco
4/11/2018 09:18:54 pm
WCP Bjorkdahl, A “Sensory rooms in psychiatric inpatient care: Staff experiences” NCBI. Published 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26875931
Kendal Feigle
4/11/2018 09:32:39 pm
INTRODUCTION
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Ken
4/11/2018 09:35:32 pm
George Steele states, "The easiest way to start this transformation is for advisors to use their institution's learning management system (LMS) to create modules and exercises that support the advising process." Online advising can help students find the information they had been seeking and missing. A web page dedicated to our advisors at College of the Mainland would help portray that our faculty is invested in helping us reach our goals.
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Ken
4/11/2018 09:36:42 pm
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Taylor Klekar
4/11/2018 09:59:25 pm
Power to the Bright Minds of the Library
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Taylor Klekar
4/11/2018 10:11:18 pm
[SOLUTION 3]
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Christopher Campos
4/12/2018 05:19:35 pm
Christopher Campos
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Christopher Campos
4/12/2018 05:20:25 pm
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