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10 Questions to Ask a School about Career Services and Jobs

on November 19, 2012 in Academic majors, Academic quality, Academics, Campus life, Careers, College Life

Parents and teenagers are understandably interested in colleges and universities that prepare students for eventual jobs. What schools, they wonder, will give their grads an advantage in the job world? It’s a tough question to answer because the statistics that schools share about their graduates’ success in finding jobs are often wrong. To learn more [...]

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Studying Abroad: Where Are the Guys?

on February 22, 2012 in Academics, Campus life, College Life, Studying overseas

This is the time of year when college students are making plans to study overseas in the fall. Many students attend colleges overseas during their junior year. Curiously enough, most of those students are women. Young men only represent about a third of the 270,600 American students studying overseas. That percentage, by the way, has [...]

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Perspective of a College Veteran: Why Students Behave Badly

on January 20, 2012 in Campus life, College Life, Parents

The last  couple of days, I’ve been  exploring why some teenagers can’t emotionally handle their freshman year in college while other students behave worse than toddlers. Here are the posts:  A Nightmarish Experience at an Ohio University Could This Student’s Freshman Year Have Been Saved? I was ready to move on to other topics – [...]

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Could This Student’s Freshman Year Have Been Saved?

on January 19, 2012 in Campus life, College Life, Parents

I want to thank everyone who commented on the plight of a bright young woman, who left the University of Dayton after her freshman year. Her first roommates were pigs and her experience unnerved her and her mother. If you missed the post and the accompanying comments, here is where you can find them: A [...]

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A Nightmarish Experience at an Ohio University

on January 18, 2012 in Campus life, College Life, Parents

I wanted to share with you today a comment that I received yesterday from a California mom, who shared the heart-wrenching experience of her bright daughter, who started college in Ohio. She was prompted to write after reading my college blog posts about students who desire to attend schools far from their homes. Here are [...]

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Does College Football Make Students Dumber?

on December 22, 2011 in Campus life, College Life

Does a winning college football team make it’s students stupid? Maybe. At least the men. That’s the conclusion you could reach after reading a study released right at the beginning of the college bowl season by economists at the University of Oregon. The researchers examined the grade point averages of the student body at the [...]

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