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What will it take to achieve President Obama’s higher education completion agenda? The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree. As other countries have made dramatic gains in degree attainment, the U.S. has improved more slowly. In response, President Obama recently laid out a national “completion agenda” with the goal of making the U.S. the best-educated nation in the world by the year 2020. Getting to Graduation explores the reforms that we must pursue to recover a position of international leadership in higher education as well as the obstacles to those reforms. This new completion agenda puts increased pressure on institutions to promote student success and improve institutional productivity in a time of declining public revenue. In this volume, scholars of higher education and public policymakers describe promising directions for reform. They argue that it is essential to redefine postsecondary education and to consider a broader range of learning opportunities—beyond the research university and traditional bachelor degree programs—to include community colleges, occupational certificate programs, and apprenticeships. The authors also emphasize the need to rethink policies governing financial aid, remediation, and institutional funding to promote degree completion.
The guide all college graduates need as they embark on life in the real world Graduation is a time of tough questions whose answers we don’t—and sometimes can’t—know the day we receive our diploma. Determined to power through the uncertainty of post-graduation, bestselling author Katherine Schwarzenegger embarked on a yearlong quest to gather the best guidance possible from more than thirty highly successful people working in fields like business, media, fashion, technology, sports, and philanthropy. Along the way, Katherine uncovered the essential and often surprising advice they have for graduates, including answers to questions like: • How do I find my first job in a tough economy? • How do I decide between a career that pays well and one that I’m passionate about? • How do I balance work with friends, relationships, and family? • Should I take a “gap year” before starting my first job? • What should I do about my student loan debt? Drawing on the stories and real-life experiences of contributors such as Anderson Cooper, Eva Longoria, Blake Mycoskie of TOMS shoes, Lauren Bush Lauren, Andy Cohen, Meghan McCain, Gayle King, and more, Katherine has written the must-have guide for recent and soon-to-be graduates as they prepare to seek success and fulfillment in their work, relationships, and lives.
Trying to score well on the GRE is hard enough, let alone choosing the schools you want to apply to. You are part of about 17 percent of college students that have decided to go on to grad school you want to make sure you get through all the stages of acceptance. Whether you are applying to graduate school to prepare for a profession, to get a specific job, to potentially earn more, or simply for personal achievement, this book will explain exactly what you need to know in simple, easy-to-understand terms. You will learn how to fill out the application form, how to write your personal statement, and how to conduct an effective on-site visit. You will learn tips and tricks to help you pass the GRE as well as practice tests to help you allocate your time well. Case studies from both students and professors fill this book. You will learn how to get the best letters of recommendation from your favorite professors as well as how to handle financial aid situations. By book s end, you will have increased your chances of receiving that crisp, white letter of acceptance, which puts you one step closer to achieving your academic goals.
Finally there is a college guide that high school juniors & seniors will actually read! It is a humorous, yet extremely practical guide, which will provide juniors & seniors pointers on handling the pains of getting into college & what to do once they arrive. This book will help students in organizing their college preparation efforts so that their chances of acceptance are maximized. This is an excellent book that college bound students who are up to their ears in term papers, practices, finals, parties & summer job searches are sure to read. This book makes an excellent graduation or birthday gift to teenagers from parents, family or friends. It covers such critical topics as: college choices, getting into college, long distance relationships, studying, partying, test taking, selecting a major, resume builders, why skipping class takes longer than going to class & much, much more. Available through Westgate Publishing & Entertainment, Suite 32-109, 260 Crandon Blvd., Miami, FL 33149. 305-354-4029 or Baker & Taylor.
Over the past 20 years, gaps in students' educational aspirations have shrunk considerably (Roderick et al., 2008; Roderick, Nagaoka, & Coca, 2011; Kao & Tienda, 1998; Avery & Kane, 2004; Turner, 2007; Deil-Amen & Tevis, 2010). Similarly, racial and ethnic gaps in college enrollment have shrunk. The one area in which postsecondary racial gaps have not improved is in college completion (Turner, 2007). Given the complex and varied nature of the college application, enrollment, and graduation process, it is unsurprising that district and school policies have used a scattershot approach to evaluating college readiness, with rubrics containing items pertaining to non-cognitive skills, test scores, numbers of applications, FAFSA completion, college visits, and college knowledge. The problem with such an approach is not that these items are bad in and of themselves--indeed, all of these factors have valid research behind them--but rather there is no sense of the relative importance of these factors nor of the degree to which any of these factors ultimately affects degree completion. Here the authors have framed this analysis in terms of which factors as viewed from a high school standpoint, can have the largest influence on degree attainment. The authors propose four possible policy options: Raise Grades (GPA), Raise test scores (ACT), improve the rates at which students enroll in "match" colleges, improve college choice by looking at colleges' institutional four-year graduation rate. Findings strongly suggest that the wide variation in college graduation rates, even among similarly qualified students, make it impossible to set a single set of college readiness benchmarks. It does appear possible, however, to create a demarcation of responsibility between high schools and colleges. On the one hand, high schools could be doing a great deal more to boost student achievement, especially related to grades, and providing structured supports around these students to ensure that they apply, and enroll in colleges that maximize students' chances of success. Colleges, on the other hand, play their own role in supporting students through graduation. For high schools, the importance of making hard work pay off lies in helping students make college choices that translate their high school preparation into the highest chance of earning a college degree. For colleges, the challenge in making hard work pay off is to provide the supports necessary for the high-achieving students they admit to continue to succeed on their campuses. Two tables are appended.
After the parties, the frat rushes, the Big Test and the Big Game, the caffeinated all-nighters, and the pomp and circumstance, life comes knocking. Finding a job and keeping it; renting an apartment or sharing a sublet; dealing with your own money instead of your parents’ money; looking for love (and looking and looking . . . ): who knew how complicated the world after college would be? Nearly 800 contributors to this How to Survive book found out, and happily share their hard-won insights. This useful, upbeat book collects stories, tips, and advice on finding the best place to live, entering adulthood without losing passion, taking care of one’s health, finding a great job, and not going home for the holidays for the first time. Covering both the psychological adjustments and the nuts and bolts of daily life as a grown-up, How to Survive the Real World is witty, practical, and the perfect gift for the nervous grad.
Ready or not high school graduation is here. And chances are if you are reading this, you have no idea what's next. Although you may not know what's next, one of the very few things in life we all know for sure is that you will end up somewhere. Before you know it you'll be on your own supporting yourself. Think about it, the day will come when you're responsible for paying your own rent or mortgage, buying your own food, covering your own phone, light and gas bill and of course paying for social activities, clothes and those other non-essentials like your trip to Maui or taking your girl out to eat. You're going to need a way to pay for it all, right? So why not choose a way that will allow you to support yourself while doing what you love, living the kind of life you want while you enjoy being at your intended somewhere? Graduation is the ending of one chapter of your life and the beginning of the next. What a great time to start thinking about your somewhere and whether or not you'll take an active role in determining where it will be. You will have a future and although no one can predict it, you can play an active part in creating it. So why not take advantage of all the world has to offer and start thinking about your somewhere while taking a part in getting there? The great thing about your somewhere is that it will not always be the same. Think about it. Your somewhere today is a recent or soon to be high school graduate. Your somewhere at 21 could be college graduate or working as an architect. Your somewhere at 25 could be working a job that you love (or hate) or being a single parent living on welfare. Once you are in your 30s, your somewhere might be celebrating your promotion, world renowned fashion designer, pro athlete in the NBA or running your own business. The good news is that there is not just one path to your somewhere. The most common path, which is attending a college or University, is a great one. But it isn't the only great one. People learn in different ways and no one has a better learning style than anyone else. There is no wrong or right way to learn and the way you learn is perfect for you - - - that is all that matters. So if college isn't for you that's okay. It doesn't mean that those headed to college are any better than you, smarter than you or that they'll have a brighter, more successful future than you. And if college is for you, it's not too late to go. There are many pathways to reach your goal and this book will show you how. So what do you say? Are you ready to take the first step to doing what you love while heading to your somewhere? If so work the steps in this book to learn how to do what you need to do now so you can do what you want to do later and get to your somewhere. I'm excited about your future. I hope you are too!