When handled properly, internships can not only prepare you for a full-time working role but can also give you a great insight into your chosen future career.
How many graduates discuss (and face critique of) their senior thesis project with the college's top man? All of them, if they go to Bard College at Simon's Rock: The Early College, in Great Barrington, MA.
Perhaps instead of focusing on our kids' declared major, grades and degrees, we should be paying attention to their extracurricular activities.
Since its founding, the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has been an important re...
When I was a graduate student in the early 90s, there were hardly any American citizens in our program. I think there were just two.
Having been through it all before, we find ourselves asking the following questions: Is a degree in a practical science worth anything anymore? Can "older" graduates compete with fresh-faced 22-year-olds?
If you're a business student, the odds are you've probably considered earning your MBA. However, before you proceed, here are some things you should consider.
There is an entire generation of young people whose parents told them to just get a degree. A huge group of that generation is now educated -- with the debt to show for it -- and unable to find work.
Religion is clearly an important force in the contemporary world whether you believe in it or not, and therefore I think we need to try to integrate that better into our teaching.
With the Bush tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year, it is a good time to think about our nation's deficit. The New York Times recently chal...
It's time to dispel four widespread myths about the quality of higher education in the United States. The first of these is that teachers at the elit...
I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the increase in kooky candidates.
Growing concern about America's continued leadership in science and innovation is well- documented, and now new research offers hope. It provides, for...
With tuition rising, many are concerned with containing the cost of higher education. As important as this is, shouldn't we also focus on ways to maximize the benefits of a college education?
Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enab...
