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Classrooms built over 30 years ago are not constructed to house today's supersized students. With any "built-in" situation, common among classrooms in the 50s and 60s, the seats are now too close for comfort. Elbows collide, students mushroom out the sides and legs cramp underneath table levels that are now too low. Adding to this, is the now common practice of allowing students to eat or drink most anything during class. Trash bins in classrooms have gone from 6 gallon capacities 30 years ago, to over 50 gallons in most contemporary classrooms. Today's students are only going to get even bigger, making the need to remodel more of an imperative than a necessity.
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Right along the same time that trillion dollar student loan bubble bursts, the enrollment in graduate programs will fall off the edge and crash. And, you don't need to be a Nobel Prize winning economist like Joseph Stiglitz or Paul Krugman to realize that this depression we're in, isn't going to lighten up any in the next two years. The thing is, most undergraduate students today know that the job market out there is bad and that going on to graduate study is a strategy that is likely to backfire. |
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The dot-com bubble burst at the end of the last century. Then there was the real estate bubble bursting in 2008. Next up is the student loan bubble bursting. Too many banks are loaning too much money to students who won't be able to get good enough jobs to even begin to contemplate paying the loans off. What makes this even more of a mess, your average student today is getting loans from several sources over their four, five or six years of college. Average loan loads are being reported around $22 to $25 thousand over four years. But that was before that other bubble burst in 2008. Students and their parents don't have any home equity cash machines anymore so another aspect about all of this debt is it's unsecured. Can't get blood from a stone as they say... |
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The Flint Journal / Jane Hale
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I'm glad I have two daughters and not two sons. My daughters will always be able to find a job, will have no problem getting hired and have an unlimited amount of doors of opportunity stretching into their future. Anyone who works at a college or university has noticed at least two things: there are more female students than male students on campus and women comprise a majority of middle management. This means two things over time: there will be an absolute majority of women in most positions at most higher education institutions (women prefer to hire women) and in society, men will be relegated to those jobs where performance is more important than education or skills (e.g. sales). Some would say it's just a matter of justice after decades, if not centuries of misogony, but I think it's more a sign of how bad times in the past forced women into the job market, exposing the male discrimination against them as competitors and colleagues, moving into a future where events made it easy for women to take control of the job market. Let me explain... |
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It's still true after all these years that content is your key to high rankings in search engines. What I find astonishing is that people who perform search engine optimization for companies still try to hide behind the curtain when it comes to how they do their jobs. There are dozens of SEO tools out there, and it seems, just like fishermen, everyone has their special box of bait for search engines. I recently applied for a job at a very big company for a search engine analyst position. The people I talked to were so stereotypically smug about what they do they didn't even consider that much of what they do is unnecessary and mostly a sort of ritualized Kabuki theater of web adjustments. They don't even consider in a strategic or tactical way, that content is what draws in search engines. And by content, I mean the basics: words and pictures with labels.
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So where is this all going? You know, the internet thing... The answer is an easy one: Cable Access TV. Even modest websites are deploying their own self-produced videos as never before. One reason for this is the ease of incorporating videos on anyone's website using YouTube. The other is the availability of relatively high quality, low cost video recording devices that come with easy mash-up editing software. Now everyone can be eccentric and boring at the same time online, just like with Cable Access TV. You can reach any audience with your own videos made right in the office or next door or down the hall or outside in the parking lot. |
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