Admission essay

Diversity in educational community is important as it strengths the educational experience as a result of different beliefs and experiences. Students benefits from personal growth and live in a healthy society since they are encouraged to think critically and also to communicate effectively. For example in building  the medical school community together,  diversity  play a significant role as it strengthens  mutual respect and helps student to achieve their goals in high education (Pérez & Luquis, 2008). In the project of building an educational community, as an individual I would suggest the following issues to implement. First, I would suggest that since we are diverse students we should embrace diversity.We should understand that different perspectives from different cultures encourages development and provides new environments where students can learn new things. Embracing diversity as students will be the best way of creating unparalleled opportunities of learning interpersonal skills and communication which we will apply in the world economy. For example, I come from Slovenia and I can speak 3 languages. I would suggest that as diverse students we should understand different languages so that we can be aware of cultural differences and understand the cultural roots (Pérez & Luquis, 2008). Second, I would suggest that the medical school community should include a mentorship programs to engage diverse students in the community. There should be school policies for the purpose of promoting diversity. The administration should employ the best practices which will improve the learning environment.  For example, the   policy known as holistic review process should be applies to medical school as this policy is based on individual attributes and capabilities to promote diversity (Pérez & Luquis, 2008).  Each individual should be given an opportunity to make decision and to articulate his or her educational interest and experiences toward promoting diversity.  Other thing is that leaders in medical school should ensure an actionable value of diversity through supporting institutional initiatives to enrich education. Leader should also develop programs for diversity education in order to offer diverse students an opportunity to relate with other students to gain more knowledge (Pérez & Luquis, 2008).  

 

I was once in leadership position in school and as a leader, I ensured that students had to do the right thing and follow the ethical issues for them to achieve academic excellent.  It was my responsibility to influence the learning process through managing conflict among students, providing solutions to problems, diversity awareness and developing system support such as program management (Duignan, 2006). Since our school was a diverse institution, the most part I concentrated on was diversity so as to ensure that all students understand diversity, value difference and respect each other. I ensured that everyone fitted in diverse society even though it was a hard task to let student value different culture. At this point, I faced some challenges though they helped me to understand how to be a quality leader in order to cope with future challenges. As a leader, I could not lead effectively due to poor communication from different ethnicities. Diversity was not managed properly between the students since there was a higher level of misunderstanding.  Since students could not value different cultures, as a leader I was unable to motivate the diverse team in that some cultures could feel de-motivated.  This led to the fail of achieving the level of efficiency in multicultural teams (Duignan, 2006). Other challenge is that some students behaved in unethical way and as a leader I was held accountable. I had an inner commitment in order to deal with moral indifference but I was unable to eliminate the inequitable structures due to the insufficient understanding of the culture difference.  Despite the fact that I was competent and authentic, cultural difference hindered me in setting a vision since I could not share hopes and expectations with school community (Duignan, 2006).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Pérez, M. A., & Luquis, R. R. (2008). Cultural competence in health education and health promotion. San

Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

 

Duignan, P. A. (2006). Educational leadership: Key challenges and ethical tensions. New York: Cambridge

University Press.