A recent article on the Wired website profiled a radical new approach to education as administered by Udacity. The name of the coding academy is pretty fitting since Udacity has the audacity to think that what they teach should come with guaranteed job placement results. We live in an age where schools are only too […]
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You have no right to a college education. That’s the take of young conservative blogger Matt Walsh, who frequently contributes to The Blaze. He proudly wears on his sleeve the fact that he never attended college, and that it is a bad idea for anyone without purpose. Recently, he was assailed by a detractor on […]
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The New Year is upon us, and with it comes the need to clean out the cobwebs and set those resolutions that will guide you for the remainder of the year. While many New Year’s Resolutions are easily broken, students have the advantage of prep time. A full-time employee, who had to continue working during […]
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Millennials are frequently targeted by older generations as being too lazy and entitled. While older generations have been criticizing their younger compatriots for years, it really does seem like a greater number of generations are “ganging up” on this particular group. The problem is one that has caught the attention of numerous analysts, and as […]
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A recent controversial blog post from conservative author Matt Walsh included one thought-provoking line with which many on both sides of the aisle seem to agree: college is not a place to go to find your purpose; it’s a place you go when you have a purpose. While some may choose to disagree with that, […]
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A new study published in the Harvard Business Review revealed an astonishing reality that many highly educated women in positions of power face. Apparently, the more advanced a woman’s education and professional position is, the less healthy she is likely to feel. As Fortune points out, this sort of flies in the face of what […]
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Sex education, or “sex ed,” has always been a hot-button issue among conservative parents, but a recent post on the Good Men Project challenges all parents to start “demanding” better sex-ed classes in schools and gives 8 reasons why it should happen. Those reasons include reducing the rate of teen pregnancy, delaying the age of […]
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Nicole Helget is a former educator at MnSCU and a current MPA candidate, and she has a lot of thoughts on the problem with education at the K-12 level. The “leadership crisis” begins and ends with “authoritarian” administrations and their over-reliance on “business-model reforms.” Helget blames them for being quick to scream “budget catastrophe” while […]
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University rankings are more important today than ever before. In a world where tuition is skyrocketing and jobs are hard to come by, students need to make sure they’ve given themselves the best chance at success. But when it comes to which university rankings you should be paying attention to, the decision can be a […]
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How to pick the right community college is not something many students think about when first setting their sites on postsecondary education, but it should be. There are many benefits to enrolling at a community college even though it may feel like you’re holding yourself back at first. This, of course, couldn’t be further from […]
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