USAA CEO says Gen Z ‘are not going to be as well off’—they need to take ownership of their success
“I think, unfortunately, our Gen Z’s are not going to be as well off as our boomers and Gen Xers ...
Tag: Colleges and universities
Pentagon blocks officers from Ivy League and other top schools, including partners on AI and space
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is overhauling the list of schools that military officers can attend for professional courses and graduate ...
Despite the constant ‘job apocalypse’ warnings, computer science graduates are actually on track to earn $81,000 right out of college
With warnings of a white-collar “jobpocalypse” growing louder, the outlook for Gen Z college graduates can seem bleak. Among aspiring ...
Older adults are heading back to school and represent the ‘new majority student’
Interested in starting a business, learning about artificial intelligence or exploring a new hobby? There’s a class for that. Millions ...
40% of Stanford undergrads get disability accommodations—but it’s become a college-wide phenomenon
The pandemic has shaken up college life for good: Since then, social media and AI have revolutionized classroom expectations, and ...
Conservative cancel culture clashes with college and social media at Texas A&M to bring curtain down on women’s and gender studies
Texas A&M University is ending its women’s and gender studies program, changing the syllabuses of hundreds of courses and canceling ...
Meet a 21-year-old Michigan student trapped in Singapore because Trump’s travel ban stranded him during study abroad
The first time Patrick Thaw saw his University of Michigan friends together since sophomore year ended was bittersweet. They were ...
Meet a 23-year-old electrician who skipped college to become his own boss and make 6 figures
Growing up in Concord, North Carolina, just outside Charlotte, Jacob Palmer was a classic academic achiever. “I was a good ...
In an echo of the Great Recession, Gen Z seeks out Teach for America roles
As companies shed staffers and hiring stagnates, thousands of Gen Zers are abandoning the dream that an elite degree will ...
Jeff Bezos tells Gen Z entrepreneurs to gain work experience before launching new companies
Some of Big Tech’s greatest success stories are from college dropouts. Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004 from his Harvard ...
Top University of Minnesota grads are ‘at least as good, maybe better’ than the best and brightest from Harvard, former Goldman Sachs CEO says
When Lloyd Blankfein was CEO of Goldman Sachs, thousands of newly minted graduates from top universities joined the ranks of ...
Tennessee theater professor reinstated, with $500,000 settlement, after losing his job over a Charlie Kirk-related social media post
Austin Peay State University has reinstated a professor who was fired for his social media post after the killing of conservative ...
This 22-year-old college dropout makes $700,000 a year from “AI slop” people sleep through
The modern internet is less interested in demanding attention than in simply occupying it. Adavia Davis understands that better than ...
Malcolm Gladwell says ‘don’t go to Harvard.’ Be a big fish in a smaller pond, instead
If you have sky-scraping dreams of attending an Ivy League university, maybe reconsider, according to author Malcolm Gladwell. “If you ...
Gen Z is open to blue-collar work and companies need them — but both sides are missing each other
Earlier this year, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that America needed a wake-up call. Five thousand mechanic jobs at Ford ...
Parents are sacrificing retirement, taking second jobs, and liquidating investments for college
Parents make countless sacrifices for their children. And now that college is more expensive than ever, they’re jeopardizing their own ...
Kimberly-Clark exec says old bosses would compare her to their daughters when she got promoted
Women have their own unique set of challenges in the workforce; the “motherhood penalty” can set them back $500,000, their ...
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