Showing posts with label Ivy League. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ivy League. Show all posts

Monday, September 15, 2014

Ultimately, it's on you

September 15, 2014 College Degree , College Students 0 Comments
Pay-wise, Ivy League Degree May Not Be All It's Cracked Up To Be

By CNBC.com Staff, Sept. 11, 2014

Ivy League universities are synonymous with well-paid, career-track jobs, but a new report suggests they may not yield the best starting salaries.

Breaking down the closely watched U.S. News and World Report's college ranking guide, The Washington Post reports that if beginning pay scales were the sole indicator, none the country's four top universities—Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia—would even crack the top 10 or 20 schools. Instead, the highest starting salaries belong to top military and tech schools that churn out graduates that major in math and science.

According to the data from PayScale, the schools with the highest median beginning salary belongs to the U.S. Naval Academy, where alumni earn $80,000 right out of college, followed by Harvey Mudd College, a liberal arts school that specializes in math and physical sciences ($76,000), and West Point ($75,000).

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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Non-White College Students From Places Like Africa Benefit From 'Affirmative Action'--Was That The Original Intent?

April 13, 2014 Affirmative Action , Asad L. Asad 0 Comments
By Asad L. Asad, Apr. 10, 2014, Psmag.com 

When Kwasi Enin—the Ghanaian-American student accepted by all eight Ivy League schools—first made headlines, he probably never expected to ignite a national conversation about race and ethnic relations. Why would he, given his rank among the top of his class and his stellar 2250 SAT score? By all accounts, he represents the typical Ivy League-bound high school senior.

But Enin is “not a typical African-American kid,” as some have characterized him. This description has been rightly criticized as an ill-phrased reference to the student’s immigrant origins that draws on perceived frictions between African immigrants and black Americans, especially in discussions of higher education. Driving these perceived tensions is the notion that immigrants are benefitting from racial justice policies—like affirmative action—that were originally intended to make up for historical wrongs committed against black Americans.

This emphasis on the black American-African divide misses a larger question about immigration’s role in the implementation of racial justice policies, and how these policies have been redefined to foster racial diversity. As greater numbers of non-white immigrants have entered the country, longstanding racial minority populations have become increasingly multi-ethnic. Our racial diversity policies should be reconstructed to reflect these demographic realities.

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