We aimed to develop and implement a disaster medicine curriculum for medical student education that can serve as a peer-reviewed, structured educational guide and resource.
"This is a prerequisite today to the kind of education that can succeed in the modern economy," he said.
Pepicello said the university's mission is to offer access to education that can help lift its students into the middle class.
"Our emphasis is not so much in conflict areas as it is in education, specifically on the type of education that can lead to productive employment".
Geared for working adults who can "go" to school just one day a week, it illustrates the appetite for education that can be shaped to fit busy schedules.
This trend often favors organizations, like those in health care and education, that can demonstrate in numbers the effects of financial support.
"I think people are beginning to come out of that again and look at the fact that it's a broad education that can let you go in a number of directions".
It is an experience that he was given by his first scholar-teacher in Hong Kong, with whom he practiced calligraphy, seal carving and music, disciplines, long associated with a true education, that can only be taught one-on-one.
Emphasise what you gleaned from your education that can be used practically, and highlight the skills you gained from various areas of your life – whether that's education, voluntary work, or your extracurricular interests and activities".
For middle- and low-income families, the expense of a campus visit may be yet another burden, but for others it seems a small investment in an education that can cost $200,000 at a private college.
We need more education that can interrogate and dismantle the sources of online violence; the quiet acquiescence of bystanders to online misogyny, racism, homophobia and transphobia; and the fears witnesses have of becoming targets of violence themselves.
