If You Think a College Degree Is an Automatic Ticket to Jobs, You Are Mistaken.
May 11, 2011 by Hayden Shumsky
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College Admissions Clinic Radio Episode #1- How we can help your family
May 5, 2011 by Hayden Shumsky
Filed under Podcasts
- Dr. Shumsky's unique experience as a professor at Northwestern Univ. and Univ. of Virginia and the insights he gained into why students needed help with finding the right college
- How College Admissions Clinic are different from High School College Counselors.
- Treating student interests and future prospects as the centerpiece of our work.
- Approaching students as young adults with in our adult-to-adult collaboration.
- Creating trusting, open relationships with students.
- Helping students take control of the college selection process and carrying that to the rest of their lives.
- Helping students to figure out how they might fit into different kinds... Read More »
Things Are Tough All Over, Part 1,998,753
Two articles of note this morning from NY Times and the Houston Press: In response to tough job market, law schools are inflating grades. Law students are seeing their grades rise by as much as one grade point as schools adjust their grading systems to make graduates more attractive to hiring managers. This seems like an awfully crass method of responding to the Great Recession. The odds of this making any difference in potential hires is low and the cost to law school reputations are high. So why would schools such as UT-Austin and Georgetown play such a devious game? In the Houston Press, Rice University's Shannon Franklin, assistant director of the Jones Graduate School of Business, talks about the... Read More »June 22, 2010 by Hayden Shumsky
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College Newswire
5 Myths About College That Must Die Immediately
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“The Big Whopper” of a myth that is highly destructive to college outcomes: All colleges are basically the same.
This one could not be more wrong. In... Read More »Fall 2014 UCLA Survey of Incoming Freshmen Shows Mental Health at All Time Low
The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA has released the findings from their annual survey of incoming college freshmen. Sadly, this year's results... Read More »
How To Prepare New College Freshman For Academics and Life On-Campus
As you may have read in the media, like this from the Washington Post, most high school... Read More »
It’s a Rough Job Market for College Grads in 2014
Accenture, a global leader in management consulting, has published their 2014 College Graduate Employment Report. The employment prospects for recent college... Read More »
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