“I’m not sure it would’ve happened if Occupy Wall Street wouldn’t have started,” said Marina Keegan, of the Morgan Stanley protest at Yale, where she is a senior. “Definitely people are starting to think more critically about their choices after graduation and how they affect not just themselves, but the world.”
The New Student Activism
January 21, 2012 By
Study Says! Unemployment Varies by College Major
January 4, 2012 By
Food for thought direct from Georgetown!
http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/Unemployment.Final.pdf
Update: Catherine Rampell of the New York Times has some more thoughts here.
Young Women Go Back to School Instead of Work
December 29, 2011 By
Workers are dropping out of the labor force in droves, and they are mostly women. In fact, many are young women. But they are not dropping out forever; instead, these young women seem to be postponing their working lives to get more education. There are now — for the first time in three decades — more young women in school than in the work force.
What Is College For?
December 15, 2011 By
Most American college students are wrapping up yet another semester this week. For many of them, and their families, the past months or years in school have likely involved considerable time, commitment, effort and expense. Was it worth it?
Your mileage may very!
Stop Telling Women To Do Startups
December 11, 2011 By
So it seems that women are making decisions for themselves just fine. It’s just that they are not the decisions that men make. This should not surprise anyone. Men and women are different. So what?
What Do You Do With Unemployed Literati? Form An Online Journal!
December 1, 2011 By
It was the weekly meeting of The New Inquiry, a scrappy online journal and roving clubhouse that functions as an Intellectuals Anonymous of sorts for desperate members of the city’s literary underclass barred from the publishing establishment. Fueled by B.Y.O.B. bourbon, impressive degrees and the angst that comes with being young and unmoored, members spend their hours filling the air with talk of Edmund Wilson and poststructuralism.
Job Outlook for College Graduates Is Slowly Improving
November 17, 2011 By
The job outlook for college students is expected to improve by a modest 4 percent this academic year, according to a major annual survey employers released on Thursday. This is the second year in a row that the hiring of new graduates is predicted to increase, following drops of 35 percent to 40 percent in 2008. Bachelor’s degree graduates should see the most hiring, with a 7-percent increase in available jobs.
Many employers overestimated their hiring growth last year, anticipating a 10-percent increase in new bachelor’s degree hires; but this year’s data appear to be “a little deeper” and show “a more consistent pattern of growth,” says the survey, which is administered by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University.
Educated And Jobless: What’s Next For Millenials?
November 12, 2011 By
The Occupy Wall Street protests in several cities around the country have turned a spotlight on the growing frustration among the millennial generation, a group that has suffered crushing student loan debt and high rates of unemployment.
Lindey Loftin is part of that generation, but the 27-year-old is not unemployed. In fact, she says she loves her job, is well paid and has no college loan debt. Her employer actually paid for a portion of her education.
Plagiarism Differences in High School and College Students
November 6, 2011 By
A report released today by the plagiarism-detection tool TurnItIn confirms what a lot of teachers already know: that students are copying content from online sources. According to the report, for both high school and college students, Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers were the top two most popular sources of lifted copy.
But another interesting fact emerged from the report about the difference between high school and college students. While 31% of content matches for high school students came from social and “content-sharing” sites (like Facebook or Yahoo Answers), just 26% of the matches for college students originated there.
The Rising Value of a Science Degree
October 28, 2011 By
If you’re trying to figure out what to study in college, a new report suggests you would do well choosing a major in science, technology, engineering or math.
The report, based on Census and National Science Foundation data analyzed by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, shows that professions that depend heavily on skills learned in these fields are the second-fastest growing occupational group in the United States, after health care.
