Posts Tagged ‘higher education’
Higher Education: Don’t Ignore Your Liberal Arts Majors
Thursday, November 5th, 2009In an Interfolio blog article on November 5, Mike Lovell makes the case that careers offices should pay more attention to their liberal arts majors. He cites a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Katharine Brooks. I applaud Ms. Brooks’ idea of partnering with faculty. I also like the idea of offering students a course through which they identify their transferable skills, whether through a credit or a not-for-credit program. But I’d like to go much further. In the 21st century, when an economic return on tuition investment is so important to both students and parents, it is incumbent upon everyone in a college or university—from the President on down—to be talking about education and graduate success in the same breath, and to do so from the first year on. Because if talking about a student’s future is confined to the upper-class classroom and the occasional visit to the careers office, we will still end up with graduates who can’t make the connection between college and career.
Why Higher Education Can’t Ignore Graduate Unemployment
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009This press release asserts that as the unemployment rate for college graduates doubles from 2.4% in June 2008 to 4.8% in June, 2009, higher education needs to pay more attention to career services.
Career Services: Cost Center or Strategic Advantage
Friday, June 26th, 2009This recession is different. It will change the approach of young professionals to the work world. It will also change the ways that universities do business, as parents and students demand a high return on their tuition investment in the form of well-paying jobs. Are careers offices ready? How can they become a strategic asset to their colleges and universities? A new model is essential.