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Mark Montgomery
Educational Consultant
We have written several posts on choosing a major in college. While there is much debate about the relevance of a student’s major and their professional future, the downturn in the economy has many parents and students concerned about long term job prospects.
Last month, The Wall Street Journal published an article called “Landing the [...]
A client of mine is a budding architect. He is taking an independent study in architecture at his high school, and has become very enthusiastic about the possibility of turning his interest into a career.
But he is unsure about what road to take as an undergraduate. Should he look for universities that offer a Bachelors [...]
The New York Times ran a story on Sunday entitled Making College “Relevant.” The thrust is that consumers of higher education (i.e., primarily parents, but also students) are demanding clear links between the education one purchases and the job one lands after graduation.
In some ways this makes perfect sense: a college education is a huge [...]
An opinion piece in yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed, by Lee Burdette Williams and Elizabeth A. Beaulieu, does an outstanding job of explaining that calls for a “no-frills education” by the president of Southern New Hampshire University and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education–among others–do not actually pare down education to its essentials.
Rather, the call to [...]
Today a client and I had a long conversation about how to report her intended college major on her applications. She has been stressing out about it. She has many, many interests and an equal number of talents. And she just can’t decide what to be when she grows up.
I told her to join the [...]
A recent guest post by Alex Berger got some people talking about the importance of choosing a college major. Alex argued that what matters is training your brain and developing a passion.
This video, which first hit YouTube a few years back after a classroom teacher in Colorado gathered some provocative statistics to show at a [...]
Yesterday I explained that I started up a conversation about education in the 21st century with a Twitter friend, Alex Berger. The conversation began because we had both listened to a piece on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, in which guests debated the value of particular college majors.
Alex wrote me an extended email in [...]
I reviewed a question the other day on LinkedIn. I thought I would share my response with you.
Here’s the question:
Is philosophy a good major? Why? Just wondering what you can get with a philosophy major or if it’s worth the time and money.
And here is my response:
Good question. I get this sort of [...]