A recent USA Today arti­cle titled "Col­leges not train­ing stu­dents for careers that are grow­ing" can be summed up nicely in with fol­low­ing illus­tra­tion: I mean, if you really want to, read the arti­cle… © image by Nick Schwartz

Higher edu­ca­tion is not about money, not at the heart of it. Higher edu­ca­tion is about learn­ing to think, and while the abil­ity to think is not as tan­gi­ble as a cold, hard pay­check, say­ing “No way!” to col­lege is say­ing “No way!” to a life­time of both finan­cial and cul­tural growth.

This arti­cle is in response to "Plan B: Skip Col­lege" by Jacques Stein­berg, which was pub­lished on May 14 in the New York Times. "Plan B" details many rea­sons why some high school stu­dents may be bet­ter off pur­su­ing a voca­tional course or appren­tice­ship rather than a col­lege degree. Included among these are the high cost […]

The apple often doesn't fall far from the tree. We all know that adage. For bet­ter or for worse, our moms (and dads) make a big dif­fer­ence in our col­lege and career suc­cess. What to do if your par­ents were not well-educated or high up on the pro­fes­sional ladder.

Today, Parade Mag­a­zine announced their selec­tions for their annual High Boys Bas­ket­ball All-American Team. Accord­ing to  Parade, Jared Sullinger, the magazine's 2010 Player of the Year will be headed to Ohio State next, likely to shore up an offense who will miss AP Col­lege Player of the Year, Evan Turner, as he is likely to […]

For me the ques­tion of "Why Col­lege?" is some­thing I have con­sid­ered very seri­ously in the course of com­plet­ing my degree. I am tech­ni­cally an alum­nus of Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Lon­don. When I fin­ish the degree I started in 2005 I will also be an alum­nus of the Uni­ver­sity of West­min­ster. One degree, two uni­ver­si­ties: I […]

As Eliz­a­beth men­tioned, Feb­ru­ary is a month filled with oppor­tu­ni­ties for bud­ding rela­tion­ships (col­lege accep­tance let­ters) and heart­break. (sigh…rejection let­ters). In some cases, these same let­ters may force some soon-to-be grad­u­at­ing high schools seniors to revisit a ques­tion they once con­fi­dently answered months before pen­ning rough draft per­sonal state­ments. What's more, the answer to this […]