THOMAS COLLEGE, a liberal arts school in Maine, advertises itself as Home of the Guaranteed Job! Students who can’t find work in their fields within six months of graduation can come back to take classes free, or have the college pay their student loans for a year. Read more…
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Read more >>>What should libraries do to become relevant in the digital age?
They can’t survive as community-funded repositories for books that individuals don’t want to own (or for reference books we can’t afford to own.) More librarians are telling me (unhappily) that the number one thing they deliver to their patrons is free DVD rentals. That’s not [...]
Read more >>>The number of high school graduates has climbed to a record height this decade. You’d think that would make college admissions more competitive than ever, but a recent paper by an economist suggests otherwise. Read more…
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THEIR company names were conspicuously absent from their nametags, but that is how these hedge fund managers and analysts — members of a field known for secrecy — preferred it. They filled the party space at the W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in late October, mostly men in their 30s. Balancing drinks on easels adorned [...]
Read more >>>For all the protests and controversy that preceded it, President Obama’s speech to America’s students this week turned out to be an inspirational and positive discourse. Despite alarming warnings from the President’s harshest GOP critics, his core message - stay in school, work hard, and follow your dreams – didn’t smack of any veiled [...]
Read more >>>If your reading this sentence, do you see that their is something wrong with it?
No? In that case you should be embarassed, er, E-M-B-A-R-R-A-S-S-E-D.
But if spelling is not your strong suit, don’t worry – you are not alone. In fact, a new study carried out by the London-based Spelling Society found that correct spelling of [...]
Read more >>>There is a promising piece of news out of Washington this month: when it comes to funding for music, the Obama Administration is singing a refreshingly new tune.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior has just approved a bill that sets the annual budgets for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment [...]
Read more >>>With the high cost of fuel these days, many students are forgoing enrolling at traditional colleges and universities and opting for another way to earn their degrees: online. According to an article in The New York Times, thousands of students have decided to cut costs caused by rising gas prices by taking one or more [...]
Read more >>>From TEDTalks:
Ben Dunlap shares the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian man he met at Wofford College. Listen as he weaves the tale of Mr. Teszler’s life, arching from the Holocaust to the South in the 50’s…it is a wonderful tale of passion, and justice, and living your life.
About Mr. Dunlap:
Ben Dunlap was a dancer [...]
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