Archive for the 'Community Service' Category

Traditional Four-Year College Degrees are the Exception, not the Rule

Monday, June 1st, 2009

You must read this article by Neil Swidley in  the Boston Globe.  Mr. Swidley  pulls together some great information that shatters the myth of the four year college degree.
Fact:  Census data from 2005 indicate that only 28% of Americans have obtained a Bachelors degree.
Fact:  Only about 10% of Americans take the “traditional path” of completing [...]

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A Visit To Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

I had the good fortune to visit Sacred Heart University, a Catholic institution in Fairfield, Connecticut.
I gleaned some “crunchy nuggets” of information to share about the school. Here they are.

SHU was begun in 1963 as a commuter school. Now it is primarily residential college with 3,400 full-time [...]

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Community Service and College Applications: Commitment, Achievement, Leadership

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

A hilarious front page article in this week’s The Onion leads with this headline:
Closing of Homeless Shelter Leaves College-Application Padding Students with Nowhere to Turn
Doors Shut on Much-Needed Extracurriculars
Here’s a snippet from the article:
After years for providing hope and assistance to resume-padding volunteers, the Second District Homeless Shelter colsed its doors Monday, leaveing hundreds of [...]

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