Mentorship Essays and Research Papers

Born in 1949, Temple Grandin was first diagnosed with brain damage at the age of three and then, at the age of five, labeled Autistic. Today Temple Grandin, self-labeled as a recovered autistic, is a well-respected doctor in animal science, a professor at Colorado State University, a bestselling author, an autism activist, and a leading…

Additional data from the University of North Dakota shows that over the next 20 years, a total of 45,000 pilots will be forced to retire(Higgins, J, et.al., 2013). The massive amount of future retirements is rather concerning due to the fact that there are only a total of 18,000 pilots currently flying for regional airlines…

As an only child from a working-class background with a single mother, I rarely encountered students with similar experience. While earning my B.S./MBA at Clemson, my awareness of being one of the few minorities in my classes became apparent. Further, as an African American male, the lack of minority representation in academia is perceptible. Consequently,…

I was fortunate to study abroad in the U.S. with support from my parents in China. However, despite this privilege, there were challenges that made my graduation from UC Irvine a large feat. I was not familiar with many aspects of higher education in the U.S. which made academic tasks such as scheduling courses to…