Archive for the ‘ Career ’ Category

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 ]

Extra-Marital Sex More Likely in Graduate Degree Holders

Forbes Magazine printed a few opinion pieces about the recent findings in several social science journals that two career couprles run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. Not surprising considering how stressful it can be to juggle life, family, and career. Evidently male breadwinner marriages are most stable. I was surprised by these [ READ MORE ]

Lefty College Grads Earn More Money

Left-handed male college graduates make 26% more than their right-handed counterparts, according to researchers at Lafayette College and Johns Hopkins University. There are “several suggestive and economically and statistically significant results that suggest further support for the notion that handedness matters,” they wrote. “We do not have a theory that reconciles all of these findings.” [ 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 ]