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’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 ...

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.

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 ...

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..