College to Career
June Newsletter 2014: Rising Student Loan Rates, The Western Undergraduate Exchange & More
It’s June! Warm afternoons, days spent with your toes in the sand at the beach, tossing aside winter and spring attire for jean shorts and tank tops… Yes, summer is here! Congratulations if you have a soon to be college freshmen. This summer will be a critical time to create your detailed college funding plan…
The 5th Annual Dare 2B Digital Conference for Young Women in Silicon Valley
In only a few short weeks the 2014 Dare 2B Digital Conference will commence. Its purpose is to give young women from 7th – 10th grade a taste of the widespread permeation of computer technology in our world today. They’ll go over the basics of obtaining a future degree in computer science or electrical engineering….
The Nitty-Gritty of MOOCs: Its Beginnings, Current Standing and Future Expectations
What if you could enroll in online courses completely free of charge? Sounds like a farfetched fantasy, but it’s not. In 2008 George Siemens offered a class through the University of Manitoba. It was driven by student responses on Moodle forums, RSS feeds and even Second Life gatherings. This, probably unbeknownst to him at the…
Find Your Fit 2 Flourish in Life
Parents left paying off their children’s’ college debt while the student is a basement dweller in their childhood home. Empty nesters left with empty retirement accounts after paying for college. Credit card debt extended to its limit. Why? These families focused on the 4 years instead of the 40. The Four (or Five or Six)…
The Alumni Factor
In September of last year, graduates of some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities, who were accustomed to seeing their schools place high in popular college ranking publications, got an unexpected surprise, The Alumni Factor. This new college ranking platform shakes up the traditional college ranking approach using objective alumni data in rating…
Is a College Degree Worth It?
Thanks to rising tuition costs and a tough job market, in 2011 college seniors graduated with an average of nearly $27,000 in student loan debt. According to the College Board, going to college costs between three and four times as much as it did 20 years ago and the fees continue to rise. While college-educated…