Archive for the ‘ Career Education ’ Category

Fashion School Alumni at New York Fashion Week

All Art Schools has an interesting article on their site – Which Fashion Schools Did Fashion Week Designers Attend? Calvin Klein – Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) A native of the Bronx, Calvin Klein is no stranger to New York Fashion Week. He attended the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and launched his first line [ READ MORE ]

Best Careers: Physical Therapists

I posted previously about CareerJournal.com’s Best Careers List, for which they used their powers for good and not evil, to obtain. They surveyed career-focused people to find a list of common attributes people who are most satisfied with their jobs: -Good intellectual stimulation -Strong job security -High level of control and freedom in what to [ READ MORE ]

Best Careers: Management Consultants + Analysts

Management Consultants made CareerJournal’s Best Careers List. Their ranking criteria were based on which careers make for happy and satisfied working folks. Since the list wasn’t compiled based on salary alone, and instead was based on not being miserable in your career, I applaud the list and the editors of CareerJournal.com for initiating the research. [ READ MORE ]

Top 10 Overrated Careers

U.S. News and World Report released their list of the top 10 overrated careers for 2007. The list was drawn from more than 2,500 confidential counseling sessions with real-world professionals over 20 years. Often the work is more tedious than others would guess. Or people enter a career to make a difference only to encounter [ READ MORE ]

Sustainability Degree Offered at Arizona State University

Do you remember, back in the day, when it was crazy talk that the world might be round? And how cranky the Catholic Church became when Galileo started spouting off about the freakishly scientific Copernican theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way around (as God intended because Man is [ READ MORE ]

Majoring in Video Game Development

NPR today ran a story about the mainstreaming of video game development as viable college major. Game development has arrived in the upper echelons of academia; it has outgrown it’s previous status as a novelty “Buffy the Vampire Studies” type of major. From the NPR lead off: This year, the University of Southern California enrolled [ READ MORE ]

Schools of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs Are H-O-T If you have a yen to make a dollar (holy bad joke, Batman) by joining the entrepreneurial ranks (the badness of that is still hurting me), then you are in luck, my friend. Being young and hip and using your noggin to come up with the next new thing is now considered [ READ MORE ]

RN Fast Track for Vocational Nurses

Licensed nurses with LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) degrees can now earn a bachelor’s degree (BSN) with one extra year of school. The academic degree program sounds like a rap lyric: LPN-to-BSN. Okay, maybe not. If it was LPN to the BSN… Anyway, it’s good news that vocational nurses are getting the chance to move up [ READ MORE ]

Challenges Facing Moms Restarting Careers

Examining the Trend of College-Educated Women Leaving the Workforce I love research done by people who’ve heard a general, society-wide rumor and just have to know whether or not it’s based in fact. Sylvia Ann Hewlett (author of the 2002 book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children) recently researched just how [ READ MORE ]

Washington State University Offers Organic Farming Degree

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) – Even as enrollment in traditional agriculture degree programs waned, John Reganold kept getting questions about organic farming. So the Washington State University soils professor put together a proposal to create the nation’s first organic farming degree, and the state approved the program last month. “We have as much experience as any [ READ MORE ]