Calpoly Research Paper

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Choosing a College One of the most important decisions you can make in your life is the college you decide to attend, and for myself after my journey at Chaffey College is over, I plan to attend Cal Poly Pomona and major in Kinesiology in Health Promotion. There are many reasons why I decided to attend Cal Poly Pomona, but one of the biggest reasons is that they focus on polytechnic education, where hands on learning is the foundation of a broad based educational experience. Cal Poly also has a great Disability Resource Center (DRC) that provides services to students with disability like myself. Cal Poly also believes in affordable and accessible tuition fees for their students. Cal Poly Pomona has great opportunities to achieve your…show more content…
Members will get invited to a variety of gathering and social events, where at this time you have the opportunity to meet other students in the field. “With participation in the events members are given some stipend to attend professional conferences in which the club may be able to pay for some or all of their professional conference.” (http://www.csupomona.edu) Being able to attend these social events and developing connections will indeed benefit a student during college as well as potential job…show more content…
Being a student with a learning disability has its challenges and making sure that a college has the resource to accommodate my disability is very important to me. I struggle with reading/comprehension and writing skills. An Assistive Technology Center is also provided by the DRC. I have found that this is the only campus that is “devoted to providing a fully accessible, supportive computing environment.” (http://www.csupomona.edu) There are also several variations of accommodations that a DRC student can receive depending on their needs such as test, housing, and classroom
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