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• April 11, 2013 4:20 PM

  Employers Really Don't Care About Your College Major

  Unless you majored in nursing or engineering or something in college, the truth your major doesn’t really matter. While it's become a common feature of conservative criticism of college to suggest that college is worthless (and people can’t get jobs)...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 17, 2012 10:00 AM

  A College Employee Uniform?

  Students at the University of Toledo object to a new university policy that requires employees, including students with campus jobs, to wear uniforms while at work. According to an article by Federico Martinez in the Toledo Blade: A new...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 14, 2012 10:00 AM

  Measuring Soft Skills

  Not confident that its students are prepared to succeed by merely completing the courses required for graduation, one North Carolina community college has ordered staff to factor “soft skills” into grading to try and measure workforce readiness. According to an...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 12, 2012 2:17 PM

  How's That STEM Field Working Out?

  So you want to get a PhD in physics.... (Note that watching too many of these Xtranormal videos about jobs will basically convince the viewer that there are no good career choices.)...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 11, 2012 3:18 PM

  What You Study Does Not Determine Where You Work

  I wrote earlier today about Vermont’s discussion about charging different tuitions to people with different majors. One of the difficulties with this is as policy that the majors that might lead to lucrative jobs are more expensive to administer. Do...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 18, 2012 3:07 PM

  Only Recent PhDs Need Apply

  It’s very hard for academics to get tenure-track jobs. There aren’t nearly enough jobs available for all of those new PhDs that universities produce every year. Getting a job is apparently even more difficult if one didn’t earn a PhD...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 11, 2012 10:00 AM

  Double Trouble

  Dear America, Stop going to law school. This is not a good financial decision. Despite extensive evidence that most law schools are a gigantic waste of money, apparently people still kept applying, and studying, and graduating, and taking the bar...

  By Daniel Luzer

• June 20, 2012 10:00 AM

  Arts Problems

  The arts graduates are fine, according to a survey released yesterday by the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project. According to the media release: Findings from a national study released this week show that Americans with arts degrees are generally satisfied...

  By Daniel Luzer