Now, you need more than a college degree to make the grade with
employers (Sun-Sentinel)
A four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a
better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising
paycheck.
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What’s a college degree worth? (The State)
A four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a
better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising paycheck.
Just ask Bea Dewing. After she earned a bachelor’s degree in computer
science from Maryland’s Frostburg State University in 1986, she enjoyed
almost unbroken advances in wages, eventually earning $89,000 a year as a
data modeler for Sprint Corp. Then, in ...
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New green design initiative offered through Collin College’s
interior and architectural design program (The Rowlett Lakeshore
Times)
Collin College students will be able to experience the conservation
movement by participating in the college’s new Green Design Initiative
beginning in the Fall 2008 with a new “green” associate of applied
science degree..
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The Declining Value Of Your College Degree (WallStreet Journal via
Yahoo! Finance)
A four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a
better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising paycheck.
What employers want from workers nowadays is more abstract and less easily
learned in college.
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In picking a major, college students must follow their hearts or the
money trail (The Sacramento Bee)
That age-old tug of war – follow your heart or follow your head –
is playing out sharply this year as a record-setting collection of
college-bound students faces a life-shaping decision: Peter Hodgson,
who will be a senior at Jesuit High School in the fall, studies piano with
Jay Johnson of Sacramento. Hodgson would love to pursue a performing arts
degree in college, but his mother ...
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