Chill Out! Your College Choice Won’t Affect Your Job Prospects

You’ll Get Hired Based on What You Know How to Do, Not Where You Went to School

This month, high school seniors across California are receiving college decision letters of acceptance and rejection. Many of these students, and their parents, will think that where they go to college will significantly affect their employment future.

They think wrong. Today, whether you go to college retains some importance in your employment options. But where you go to college is of almost no importance. Whether your degree, for example, is from UCLA or from less prestigious Sonoma State University matters far less than your academic performance and the skills you can …

by Michael Bernick | April 9, 2014

You Call It a College Campus. I Call It Another Planet.

Can Universities Around California and the Country Do a Better Job of Welcoming Diverse Student Bodies?

by Sarah Rothbard | February 19, 2014

The University of California (UC) system has struggled to reflect the state’s ethnic diversity since California eliminated race-based affirmative action in 1996. Last fall, a video created by a group …

Are College Savings Just for Rich Folks?

529 Accounts Are Based on Tax Incentives That Benefit Only Wealthy, But There’s Room for Improvement

by Rachel Black | December 10, 2013

College costs have exploded in recent years, and California has been at ground zero. The College Board estimates that tuition and fees for four-year schools in the UC system have …

Goodbye, Jesus. Hello, Male-Bodied Roommate.

I Thought My Coptic Christian Upbringing Was Religious. Then I Got To College.

by Marie Helmy | October 10, 2013

My life began in 42 A.D. Four decades after the birth of Jesus, Saint Mark established Christianity in Alexandria, creating a community of believers that would cling to tradition for …

Did I Participate in a Ponzi Scheme?

How College Students Like Me Get Recruited Into Multi-Level Marketing

by Darrin Moret | August 26, 2013

People dressed in business suits, many of them about my age, began to fill the rows of seats inside a private room at the Proud Bird restaurant near LAX. I …

I Miss Being ‘The White Girl’

High School Was Much Less P.C., But Much More Post-Racial

by Josephine Fenster | June 27, 2013

For seven years of my life, from sixth grade to 12th grade at primarily black and Latino schools in Las Vegas, I was the White Girl. In sixth grade, my …

Can U.S. Job Training Enter the 21st Century?

Congress’ New Workforce Act Promises ‘Innovation and Opportunity.’ But the Real Change in Job Training and Placement Is Happening in the Private Sector.

The Autism Job Club

Everyone Today Needs a Job Network. Especially Those On the Spectrum.

Free Community College Isn’t the Answer

The President’s Tuition Giveaway Won’t Land More People Middle-Class Jobs. Here’s What Will.

Out of the Army—and Out of a Job

Military Drawdowns Overseas Mean More American Veterans Struggle to Find Meaningful Work at Home

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