CONNECT YOUR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

From the Harvard Medical School Website:Demonstrate aptitude in the biological and physical sciences during their undergraduate years, but not to the exclusion of the humanities and social sciences.(A study at Harvard Medical School has shown that students are successful in their medical studies regardless of undergraduate concentration, providing that they have had adequate science preparation.…

Employers are increasingly on the lookout for graduates with international experience. Yet they are finding that study abroad isn’t sufficient for their needs. Or, at least, students don’t know how to talk about study abroad in ways relevant to employers. This explains the nationwide movement away from study abroad to international internships.  Here’s an excerpt…

And both are connected to skills and knowledge learned in liberal arts majors: “global competency” and “cross-functionality” Read more: http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/legal-hr/2013/01/15/what-employers-want-that-job-seekers-arent-mentioning/#ixzz2IqMEJkBY

See here: http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/04/my-view-what-will-you-do-with-an-english-degree-plenty/?hpt=hp_c3 *thanks to Kerry Soper for the link

The debate on the “future” of the university is a debate, seemingly endless, between those who believe the university should be about vocational training and those who think its purpose is to develop intellectual capacity, critical thinking, judgement, wisdom, etc., via the liberal arts. Excerpt: “The tension between a market model and a Socratic model…

I’ve posted a couple of articles encouraging students to measure carefully the costs and risks of going to law school in a down market. The Dean of Case Western Reserve Law School says enough already with the overblown arguments against law school: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/opinion/law-school-is-worth-the-money.html?hp

Governor Walker’s plan is based on the idea that the university should be a pipeline to existing jobs, much like a vocational school model. The idea is understandable but misguided for reasons that Benjamin Rifkin lays out here: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/11/27/why-scott-walkers-focus-pushing-graduates-specific-majors-wrong-essay

Why it that? Because: “The people who will succeed in more expensive labor markets like the U.S. will be those who can think creatively and generate the IDEAS that will propel economic growth. Such skills are best fostered in a traditional liberal arts environment…. If you teach students one trade, that skill might be obsolete…

See the results of a recent survey here: http://lifehacker.com/5910871/what-employers-look-for-in-entry+level-job-candidates

Author of Don’t Go to Law School, Paul Campos, warns graduates of the perils of going into deep debt to become an attorney. A glut of law grads combined with a net decline of good-paying positions in law firms (due to outsourcing and new technologies) has resulted in high un- or under-employment. Read here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/24/the-perils-of-law-school.html