Most students are never taught how to choose their career path, and as a result, end up in college majors and careers that are not a good fit for them. Up to 70% of college graduates are not even working in a field related to their majors! With the asking price of a bachelor's degree at an in-state public college hovering around $64,000 ($157,000 for a private school), you can't afford to choose your major or career on a whim. You wouldn't buy a CAR without taking it for a test drive, so why would you choose your future CAREER without test driving it Test Drive Your Future walks you through a step-by-step process of uncovering, testing, and choosing the perfect career using proven resources from top college and career planning organizations. The pages are packed with real life advice and inspiring stories gathered from dozens of interviews with professionals who love their careers. This is the book you'll wish you had before declaring a major, choosing a career, or spending any money on college!
An NPR Favorite Book of the Year Winner of the Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Winner of the CEP–Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship “Eye-opening...Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions.” —Washington Post “Jack’s investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support the diversity they indulge in advertising.” —New Yorker “The lesson is plain—simply admitting low-income students is just the start of a university’s obligations. Once they’re on campus, colleges must show them that they are full-fledged citizen.” —David Kirp, American Prospect “This book should be studied closely by anyone interested in improving diversity and inclusion in higher education and provides a moving call to action for us all.” —Raj Chetty, Harvard University The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In this bracing exposé, Anthony Jack shows that many students’ struggles continue long after they’ve settled in their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.
Jeff Selingo, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Chronicle for Higher Education, argues that colleges can no longer sell a four-year degree as the ticket to success in life. College (Un)Bound exposes the dire pitfalls in the current state of higher education for anyone concerned with intellectual and financial future of America.
For Student Success courses in high school, career college, community college, or university settings. This book takes a logical approach to student success by starting with stress management in making positive behavioral changes for academic and personal success. Navigating Your Future Success is readable and relevant to engage students in assessing their academic and workplace skills and develop a plan for success, starting with the critical foundation of stress management. MyStudentSuccessLab (www.mystudentsuccesslab.com) helps students to 'Start strong, Finish stronger' by acquiring the skills they need to succeed for ongoing personal and professional development. Teaching & Learning Experience: Logical Learning Outcomes How will students do well if they are "stressed out" as this impacts all aspects of their lives? Students will learn to harness stress in a positive way and set goals in their interpersonal skill areas to maximize external success skills. This program provides: · Personalized Learning with MyStudentSuccessLab: Whether face-to-face or online, MyStudentSuccessLab helps students build the skills they need through peer-led video interviews, interactive practice exercises, and activities that provide academic, life, and professionalism skills. · Personal Success Skills - Internal (or intrapersonal) success skills focus on how to do well "within yourself". Stress management is followed by positive attitude, time management, goal setting, learning styles, critical/creative thinking, improving memory, and test taking. · Professional Success Skills - Skills for succeeding "within your program and beyond." These skills focus on communication, group interaction, team building, job-seeking, and leadership development. · Effective Teaching Techniques - This book includes exercises to facilitate positive behavioral changes. Affective teaching differs from cognitive (theory) teaching, so behavioral changes are presented succinctly to show quick positive results that last. Note: This is the standalone book, if you want the book/access code order the ISBN below: 0321952529 / 9780321952523 Navigating Your Future Success Plus NEW MyStudentSuccessLab 2013 Update -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0321885988 / 9780321885982 Navigating Your Future Success 0321943252 / 9780321943255 NEW MyStudentSuccessLab 2013 Update -- Valuepack Access Card
Draws on research to offer strategies for adopting a high-hope attitude and shaping a successful future, and provides real-life examples of people who create hope and have changed the lives of their communities.
When Designing Your Life was published in 2016, Stanford’s Bill Burnett and Dave Evans taught readers how to use design thinking to build meaningful, fulfilling lives (“Life has questions. They have answers.” –The New York Times). The book struck a chord, becoming an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Now, in DESIGNING YOUR WORK LIFE: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work they apply that transformative thinking to the place we spend more time than anywhere else: work. DESIGNING YOUR WORK LIFE teaches readers how to create the job they want—without necessarily leaving the job they already have. “Increasingly, it’s up to workers to define their own happiness and success in this ever-moving landscape,” they write, and chapter by chapter, they demonstrate how to build positive change, wherever you are in your career. Whether you want to stay in your job and make it a more meaningful experience, or if you decide it’s time to move on, Evans and Burnett show you how to visualize and build a work-life that is productive, engaged, meaningful, and more fun.
Presents a comprehensive guide to 1,571 colleges and universities, and includes information on academic programs, admissions requirements, tuition costs, housing, financial aid, campus life, organizations, athletic programs, and student services.
