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Friday Five: Second thoughts on college

A new report suggests over half of college grads in the U.S. have second thoughts about their experience.

If you had it to do all over again, what would you change about your college experience? Would you pursue a different major? Go to a different school? Start out at a community college, then transfer?

These questions are at the heart of a recent report from Gallup and the Strada Education Network. On Second Thought: U.S. Adults Reflect on Their Education Decisions is the first of a three-year series of Education Consumer Pulse reports Gallup and Strada plan to issue that deal with people’s perceptions of their education paths. Continue reading “Friday Five: Second thoughts on college”

The college presidency: A tough job, about to get tougher

Here’s what it takes to be a college president, according to a recent report by the Aspen Institute.

The late business management expert Peter Drucker is credited with saying that one of the four toughest jobs in the U.S. is that of the college president. (The other three tough jobs are church pastor, hospital CEO and president of the United States.) Whether Drucker ever actually made that claim is questionable, but, this blog post notwithstanding, the internet has taken this anecdote as gospel and run with it. Continue reading “The college presidency: A tough job, about to get tougher”