Tag: college
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What We Should Tell Our College Students, instead of “Toughen Up”
In a piece for The Washington Post, Ferentz Lafargue, the director for the Davis Center which explores positive social change at Williams College in Massachusetts, pushes ... -
How to Make Living Life Off-Campus More Affordable
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
Is today’s university the new multinational corporation?
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
Study: College students feel unprepared for job market
In a startling new survey conducted by the Higher Education Authority, a significant amount of international college students “feel they are not learning job skills” — which ... -
Standardized Testing for Colleges: A Necessary Evil?
Standardized testing in K-12 education is a perennial hot button issue. Proponents feel that measuring knowledge in these rigid ways helps lift the entire educational system. ... -
Diverse Conversations: Staying Afloat in Financially Turbulent Times
In these increasingly uncertain times, colleges and universities are forced to come up with innovative ways to deal with funding cutbacks and revenue shortfalls. In this ... -
Why aren’t Most Minority High School Grads College-Ready?
It seems that graduating from high school is no longer the end goal of P-12 learning – earning a college degree has replaced it. By 2018, ... -
Diverse Conversations: Learning to Lead
Many administrators in higher education rise from the faculty. However, when a faculty member is promoted to an administrative position, becoming a director, department chair, or ... -
Infograph: How to stop procrastinating and deal with exam stress
Infograph provided by StopProcrastinatingapp.com It’s that time of year when students are in the midst of cramming for final exams. Trying to recall all that you have learned ... -
Meeting the National Need for Master’s Level Social Workers Requires Innovative Programs
A guest post by Ken Berrick The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that social worker positions will rise nearly 20 percent by 2022. While much of ...
