July 29, 2020

What Kind of College is a ‘Target School’?

Unlike most education writers and college counselors I come to my work from experiences around career counselors at hundreds of colleges and universities. I believe that I have a good perspective of the schools that have had success at helping their students begin the career they want. Some of these […]
July 9, 2020

Thoughts on College Return on Investment

In all of the noise on college admissions, you have probably read feature stories on the return on investment in a college education. To me, all of these stories are nothing but noise.I have to read these college return on investment stories. That’s part of my job. But I also […]
May 5, 2016

Four Myths About the Entry Level Job Market

Too many journalists, education reporters or not, have spent too much time and copy space on stories that question the “value” of a college education as a matter of costs as well as preparation for the entry level job market. What they fail to report is that the entry level job […]