Entries Tagged as 'Extracurriculars'

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Community Colleges Part 1 — Speech & Debate

As Bet­ter­Grads will con­tinue to pro­duce col­lege admis­sions and acceptance-related posts for those anx­iously await­ing bulky pack­ages from first-choice four-year schools, we will not fail to serve those prospec­tive col­lege stu­dents look­ing to fur­ther their edu­ca­tion at a com­mu­nity col­lege. This will be a series of posts, and I encour­age read­ers to sub­mit their comments […]

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Blogging toward a career

The New York Times ran an inter­est­ing arti­cle recently about tran­si­tion­ing col­lege stu­dents into careers: “Even before they arrive on cam­pus, students—and their parents—are increas­ingly focused on what comes after col­lege. What’s the return on invest­ment, espe­cially as the cost of that invest­ment keeps ris­ing? How will that major trans­late into a job?” One important […]