Out Of Fashion: How Bad Colleges Help The Ivies, And How Ivies Sustain Bad Colleges

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Deloitte Says Sustainability Reporting Add Up to Real Numbers
Kristen Sullivan leads Deloitte & Touche LLP and Deloitte, Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s (DTTL) Sustainability Reporting, Assurance and Compliance services, and serves as the DTTL Americas Region Sustainability Services Leader. Sullivan has extensive experience in sustainability risk assessment, reporting and assurance, and she leads Deloitte’s efforts in social impact investing and Conflict Minerals Advisory and Assurance services. Sullivan also serves as a member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) North America Advisory Council, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Assurance Task Force, the Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR) Technical Review Committee, the Sustainable Stock Exchange (SSE) Initiative Corporate Working Group, and serves as a member of the AICPA Conflict Minerals and Sustainability Task Forces.

10 Tips for Living With A College Roommate
Right about now, thousands of college-bound students, including my daughter, are preparing to take their first steps on the hallowed grounds of the schools they dreamed of attending. Getting here has not been for the faint of heart, but no sooner had my daughter been admitted to one of her top colleges, she fell prey to the next high-anxiety issue: finding a roommate. My daughter obsessed over not just finding a decent roommate, but how a complete stranger (a psycho roommate) could ruin her first year at school. And her life.

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Business Basics For The World’s Best Fashion Schools
With bespoke suits from Savile Row and mini skirts from Carnaby Street, London has long been a major player in the fashion industry. But the city’s influence now extends beyond pin stripes and hemlines, establishing itself as home to many of the world’s leading fashion schools.

10 Easy Ways to “Epic Fail” Your Job Search
With the summer coming to the end, many people are taking advantage of the last days of vacation. However, those of us who work in either career services or college/university relations areas are already ramping up for what promises to be an exciting and robust recruiting season. Those of you who have been job searching might have felt a little discouraged the last couple of weeks, as talent pipeline professionals have tried to “unplug” and haven’t responded or taken action on candidates who may be in their candidate pool. Take some solace in the fact that in the next week or two, things will change decidedly and candidate recruiting will be back in action, big time.

Students: Screw The Internship, Learn To Work Remotely
If companies aren’t willing to break the culture of internships, then let’s start showing young workers how to obtain entry-level work experience by going global.

It’s Time To Start Ignoring People Who Question Your “Impractical” Degree
Un-Careerist Jessica Shortall has an Art History degree and an MBA, and she’s not sorry about it. Here’s why you shouldn’t be, either.

If You Push Your Childen To Succeed You May End Up Pushing Them Away
In what may be worrying news for tiger moms and dads, new research suggests that high-achieving students are the most likely to move away.

How An Extra $100 A Month Can Cut Years Off Your Student Loan Repayment
With the average student loan debt creeping up over $37,000 for the Class of 2016, it’s not hard to find young adults who are stressed about their debt. So if you’re feeling overwhelmed, you can rest assured you’re not alone.Still, you don’t have to accept your debt – or your repayment plan – at face value. No matter how much debt you have, you hold the power when it comes to how long it takes to pay it off. And if you want to be debt-free sooner rather than later, making extra payments can get you there.

Jim Harbaugh’s Bank Account Leadership
Jim Harbaugh’s abrupt departure from a media session is a prime example of bank account leadership. The University of Michigan football coach has built up enough equity that the incident is no big deal now. But that can change.

6 Great College Fields Of Study For The Jobs Of The Future

What To Study In College To Score The Jobs Of The Future
If a well-paying jobs with healthy salary growth are what you are looking for after college, only a few fields of study have been shown to provide the most direct path to them.

This Computer Hits on All Cylinders for College
There’s this lingering fear when you buy a new computer. You hope you didn’t get a lemon, choose an ill-equipped model, or get enamored with the wrong features. It all hits you in the gut right after you open the box — when the restocking fees and no-return policies kick in. I was reminded of this last week when I bought my son a computer for college.

The Grateful Graduates Index 2016: The Top 60 ROI Colleges

How Focusing On These 3 Areas Can Help College Students Succeed After Graduation
I was going into my sophomore year of college when I first internalized the idea of focusing on my academics, building my leadership, and finding time to give back through community service. Over the years, I’ve echoed that same insight to mentees and younger friends with a bit more color.

These Colleges Produce The Most Millionaire Alumni
If a college measures its success by the number of millionaires it produces, then these universities have good reason to feel pretty pleased with themselves.

Immigration Minister Should Restore The Canadian Experience Class
The most substantive change the Canadian government has made to its immigration program in the last few years has been the introduction of  Express Entry, copied from the Austrian model. In theory the program pools candidates for permanent residence and enables the federal government to select the best based on points assigned to their positive characteristics such as age, education, experience and ability to speak English or French. While the program has become the central feature of Canada’s work-based immigration policy, last week John McCallum, Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship said he wanted to ease some of the rules under the program.  As part of his overhaul, my suggestion would be that he pull the Canadian Experience Class out of it.

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Student Loans And The Coming Financial Crisis
While an economic calamity is brewing, it is in the final analysis a moral tragedy, brought about by selfishness and a lack of courage and backbone. The adults of today are hurting their own children and grandchildren with their profligate spending and futile search for short term palliatives to long term cancers that are weakening our great nation.