http://www.memphisflyer.com/InTheBluff/archives/2010/05/27/degree-of-graduates Comments On: Degree of Graduates by Mary Cashiola en-us Copyright 2013 Memphis Flyer. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Memphis Flyer readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Memphis Flyer. wil@desert.net (Memphis Flyer Webmaster) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by 38103]]> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:52:40 -0500 Memphis Flyer
It doesn't help when the college requirements for a job increase without any actual need for more college-based education.
Posted by Jeff]]> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:49:12 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by 1Memphis]]> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:46:09 -0500 Memphis Flyer http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05…

This hits close to home: I told my kids Penn State was plenty good (which it is, judging by US News' ratings), but no, it had to be Columbia and Brown. I think the value of the "prestige" schools isn't so much in any difference in educational quality as in the "old boy" network they create and the doors they open.
Posted by M_Awesomeberg]]> Sun, 30 May 2010 08:43:44 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by mad_merc]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 22:31:38 -0500 Memphis Flyer
Does this quote come from a college grad or a pamphlet selling something?

Research has consistently shown that increases in college grads leads to increases in research about the social economic implications of such rates and the rates in which articles appear that take complex mathematical assumptions and convert them into single sentences.
Posted by 38103]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 17:15:02 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by Packrat]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 16:35:37 -0500 Memphis Flyer http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/05…, sociologists and economists http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405…; http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,…; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte… that, especially given the high number (40%) of students who don't get a degree in six years (much less four), not everyone needs to (or even should) attend college, and that with the cost of a college education increasing at a rate that far outstrips the rate of inflation, and the paucity of jobs for college graduates even if/when they graduate, it's a lousy investment as well.

Leadership Memphis which, if nothing else, has outlived its usefulness (if it ever really had any, other than as window dressing, or to salve the guilty consciences of local corporations for their abysmal records on diversity), is, once again, way behind the curve.
Posted by M_Awesomeberg]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 16:20:11 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by strbrnredhed]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 10:16:45 -0500 Memphis Flyer