9 posts tagged “college”
- Ride Sharing Board – you can find out who needs to get home this weekend, and if it’s a place you’d like to visit, you can share gas expenses
- Dumpster Diving – when the spring semester ends and the dorms are vacated, often a treasure trove of furniture is left behind
- Surplus and Salvage Barns – colleges are often getting rid of old desks, chairs, and computers – and if you don’t like dumpster diving, look here instead
- Great entertainments at discount prices – from music to theater to guest speakers – it’s all right there
Tried and True Techniques:
- Share books with classmates
- Rely on library reserve copies
- Buy books on-line from Get Cheap Books, Cheap College, or Cheapest Textbooks
- Save money by renting your textbooks at CHEGG.COM
- Buy Used from Amazon or Half
Nontraditional Approaches:
- Use free materials on-line such as Freeload Press, Textbook Revolution, and Safariu
- Complain to your department head as well as to your instructors - ask them develop their own on-line materials. I rarely use a text for the classes I teach. With Blackboard, Free Discussion Boards, Easy Blogging Tools, and Widgets, creation has never been so easy.
- For software training, ask the instructor to use Camtasia and post the files on the Net. A freebie that does the job is Cam Studio
"A recent college graduate is suing her school because she has been unable to find a job.Trina Thompson, 27, graduated from Monroe College in the Bronx in April. She says she has not been able to find a suitable job since she graduated with a degree in information technology. As a result, Thompson is now suing to get back the $70,000 she spent on tuition."
I have documented previously that the value of a college education has decreased while tuition has soared. Students leave with huge debts that cannot be repaid with today's salaries. Besides that, why pay to learn only Keynesian economics or law that ignores the exact language of the US Constitution?
If other businesses offer a money back guarantee, why not colleges? It would force them to compete on their merits rather than on endowments. It would also bring about better transparency to their career placement numbers.
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There is no shortage of students studying for careers in Math and Science. There is a shortage of jobs. That's the simply bottom line finding of a new study from the Urban Institute.
The study shows that between 1985 and 2000 435,000 U.S. citizens and permanent residents a year graduated with Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees in Science and Engineering. That's three times the number of jobs in Science and Engineering added per year, 150,000 during that time.
Separately Michael Teitelbaum at the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation told Congress last week that neither he nor a separate study
by the RAND Corporation can find any evidence of worker shortages.
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- And don't forget my do it yourself posts and my college posts.
If you read the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report closely (bottom of p.19 (98)), the fastest growing occupations are protective service, personal care and service, building/grounds maintenance, and food preparation. For most of these, you don't need a Bachelors degree.
More and more schools are now offering homeland security as a major. Here is another USA Today story touting Sports Security Management. I guess you can get paid to watch people cheering because their team just scored a touchdown. How ridiculous :-((
Be sure to read my other college posts.
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