Archive for June, 2007

Teaching That’s Worth The Price Of Tuition

  • June 26th, 2007
  • Posted in College

If all of my professors and instructors had taught like this, forking over the tuition would have been far less painful. I’m not saying all profs need to have slick media shows every lecture. I’m saying college costs a lot, and 95% of the time undergrads are being lectured to by either a T.A. or [ READ MORE ]

Women, College, Pay and Breadwinner Psychology

US News and World Report’s June 21st article College Majors Could Cause Women to Earn Less provided some revealing insights into reasons why women, one year after college graduation, earn 80% as much as men. [NOTE: The title of the article is strangely off, because according to the article, even when women choose higher paying [ READ MORE ]

Words Of Wisdom

What do you wish you’d been told before you left school? For anyone who has just graduated, this advice may come too late. But if you’re still in the throes of your higher education, Lifehacker.com has a solid, reader-written list of everything they wished they’d been told before they left college for the real world. [ READ MORE ]

Bill Gates Addresses Harvard Class of 2007

Humanitarian Message From Most Successful College Dropout Bill Gates told the graduating class of 2007 that “reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.” I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world — the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of [ READ MORE ]

Best Careers: Medical Researchers

Jump on in, people. Being a medical researcher (medical scientist) is hot enough to have made several Top Careers lists. You’ve got your CareerJournal.com list, Fastcompany.com list, Money Magazine and Salary.com’s list, and, my favorite, U.S. News and World Report’s list of the Top Ten Most Worthy Careers, and the Get-Ahead Careers of 2007 list. [ READ MORE ]

Rebuilding Trust Between Schools + Students

Reforms and Clean Sweeps in Financial Aid On May 31st, the New York Times revealed how deep the corruption at Columbia University ran. The financial aid director for Columbia’s undergraduate college and its engineering school, David Charlow, was promoting a student loan company in which he held stock. Columbia dismissed him last week. Now Columbia [ READ MORE ]