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Are College Graduates Really Less Professional Than Older Workers?
Hardly all of us
NPR reports on a York College study that found many college graduates aren’t prepared for the professional aspects of the workplace. Among the sources cited was a senior who apparently found the advice below edifying:
One helpful hint: When you sit down for that first interview, do not ask how many weeks of vacation the position offers.
As a writer for a a student-oriented website and as a student myself, I might be biased against the claim that today’s graduating collegians are less prepared for the professional environment of the working world than generations past (the report doesn’t show anyone making the claim–but if the phenomena wasn’t a trend, why would it be written up?). But just look at that quote for a second. Then tell me whether …
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Don’t Knock The American University
Last week Elisa Stephens, President of the Academy of Art University, wrote at the Huffington Post that American universities are not focused enough on preparing students for the global job market. Where the university is gauged by ‘a myriad of factors, from campus life and course offerings to SAT scores’ and so on, she said, ‘A business is a success if it produces a good product or provides a valued service’.
I’m not sure why Stephens assumes that universities aren’t valued according to their output–the criteria she lists sound like the US News and World Report rankings, which concern admissions and which are less essential to the admissions process than the fact that the most selective universities, which send more kids to better jobs, admit students with the best test scores and grades. Besides, many students do choose their university for career preparation, be it …
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No Respect: Young, Inexperienced, And Female Professors Most Likely To Be Mistreated By Students
According to Inside Higher Ed, young, inexperienced, and female professors are most likely to be disrespected by their students.
Only about 16 percent of the faculty members surveyed reported not having experienced student incivility at all, but that aggregate figure masked a wide gulf between men and women in terms of the likelihood of their recalling such incidents. When the researchers broke their data down by gender, they found that 24 percent of men, and just 9 percent of women, could not recall incidents of uncivil student behavior, Women were also much more likely to report that the uncivil behavior they experienced was severe, or to say that they had been upset by it.
When the researchers broke down their data in other ways, they found that the oldest and the most experienced faculty members they surveyed were the least likely to report encounters with
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Quote Of The Day
“I was talking to a friend at a bar, and this girl just came up out of nowhere, grabbed him by the wrist, spun him around and took him out to the dance floor and started grinding”
-Kelly Lynch, a junior at the University of North Carolina, on an extreme example of the resulting social lay of colleges, where in many cases women greatly outnumber men.
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