Ted Presley is a founder of ELI 360 and currently heads up the company’s international development efforts. He was the director of ACU’s international office for 20 years and was a university professor in Anthropology for 10 years.
According to a study conducted by INSEAD’s William D. Maddux in collaboration with Adam D. Galinsky from Northwestern University, there is sufficient scientific evidence to support the idea that studying abroad does indeed increase an individual’s level of creativity.
Far too many people select a course of study that leads to a career based on some popular notion about “how to get rich.”
88 percent of the respondents think of professionalism as being related to a person rather than the position. To that end, the traits or behaviors mentioned most by the respondents as being characteristic of professional employees were “personal interaction skills, including courtesy and respect”; “the ability to communicate, which includes listening skills”; “a work ethic which includes being motivated and working on a task until it is complete”; and “appearance.”
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Study Abroad
Some things seem to me to be so common sense! But to others the positive effects of living abroad serve as a topic for serious …read more
In just 24 hours, I will begin the long trek to Hyderabad and Bangalore, India, where I will meet students, parents and private school administrators that are searching for top-quality private universities in the U.S. for further studies. …read more
When my children were young, my wife and I worried about what their teachers were teaching them and what their teachers were modeling before them in terms of life-style. As our children got older and went off to the university, we were still concerned that their professors be men and women of high standards of ethics and morality as well as successful academicians. We chose to send both our children to a smaller private Christian university that only hired such qualified professionals because we knew that most young people are forming their sense of identity and choosing a life style at about that age. We wanted professors with strong academic credentials and lives of integrity to lead our children through that stage in their lives. …read more