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 [...]
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 [...]
Read full post...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 [...]