Gary Ellwood

A View from the College
February 5, 2019

Gary Ellwood
M.A Communications
Marketing & Outreach

Remember finishing high school? That was a long time ago, right? When we got out of high school, we had dreams, plans, a future in mind. That vision could have included a career, or it was focused around the life we wanted. Maybe it was just the adventures we wanted to experience. Whatever it was, high school was over, and now it was time for life to begin!

College was a path to these dreams, a place to gain the skills we would need. But college was, and is, fluid. Getting the right classes, the right professors to inspire us, the right friends to keep us on track, the right scholarships to help pay for it all, all this was sometimes hit or miss. Change majors too many times, and you could fall behind. Bills meant we had to work more, which left less time for studying. In hindsight, it seems success and failure was on our own shoulders. And as a result, sometimes we didn’t achieve what we aimed for. Or we just couldn’t finish what we started.             

The good news is, in today’s college world, there are many new pathways to gain that knowledge and/or complete that degree. There are options that didn’t exist back in the day, such as online classes and degrees. Turn your AA or AS degree into a BA or BS or even a Masters degree using UH’s distance learning options, without having to leave the island. In many cases, you can even get college credit for professional experience through a program called Professional Learning Assessment (PLA).                   

Today, Tuesday, February 5th, advisors and faculty from all of the UH 4-year Universities will be visiting the KCC campus. Their purpose is to help people transfer to a UH school, and complete the degree they initially sought. From 9:00-1:30, UH is here to talk with you. So stop by today. 

Now that you know how valuable that degree truly is, maybe it’s time to come back and get what you meant to get when you first started college.