More and more, we're hear­ing sto­ries of col­lege stu­dents learn­ing the ins and outs of busi­ness not from a book, but from get­ting out there and doing it on their own campuses.

I think that vol­un­teer­ing on a polit­i­cal cam­paign is an excel­lent expe­ri­ence before col­lege and/or dur­ing col­lege. I’ve done all three and I can’t empha­size enough what a great expe­ri­ence vol­un­teer­ing on a cam­paign can be.

I can’t iden­tify a key moment or event that pushed me in that direc­tion, but around the begin­ning of my sec­ond year at Oxy, I made a con­scious deci­sion to explore the Jew­ish and Chris­t­ian faiths through stu­dent groups on campus.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]