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Least Lucrative Majors

by Paul Craft

When it comes to expected post-graduate income, there are several types of college majors. First, there are the self-evidently lucrative ones: engineering of all varieties or financial mathematics. Then there are liberal arts degrees that prepare students for lucrative graduate studies: human biology (feeding into medical school), economics (which leads to finance or consulting work [...]

PBS Takes On George P. Schultz

by Paul Craft

The secret to his success? It’s all in the matching vest. P.B.S. stations across the country just wrapped a 3-part, 3-hour documentary on former Secretary of State, current Hoover Fellow and long-time friend of the Review, George P. Schultz. The documentary, titled “Turmoil and Triumph: The George Schutlz Years” traced Schult’z career from MIT and UChicago [...]

The Economics of Textbook Prices

by Paul Craft

Shopping for textbooks is a quarterly rite of passage at Stanford: the overstuffed bookshelves featuring row after row of enticing titles; the churning hordes of people (sometimes refered to as the “checkout line”); and, without fail, the jaw-dropping textbook prices. The New York Times today has a  forum up on textbook prices, asking the eternal [...]

Studying? What’s that?

by Paul Craft

Earlier this summer, the Boston Globe had an excellent piece looking at fresh data on student studying patterns. What did it find? College students – frosh in particular – don’t study that much. The Globe writes: It is a fundamental part of college education: the idea that young people don’t just learn from lectures, but [...]

Stanford, Plagiarism and Turnitin.com

by Paul Craft

From my current perch at the Washington Monthly and our College Guide blog, I’ve research and written a bit on new, high-tech anti-plagarism services like Turnitin.com. Here’s how the service works:  students upload their academic work to the website, which then enters the paper into a an enormous database of student work and web content [...]

The Class of 2010′s Job Market, Part III

by Paul Craft

Though there is some dispute over the how bad, eaxctly, the American job market is looking, there is little dispute that graduating into a recession – as the classes of 2009 and 2010 have done – can have long-term effects on earnings and psychology. Earlier this year, The Atlantic published an excellent look at the [...]

Former Fiat Lux blogger Covers Uganda Bombing

by Paul Craft

Michael Wilkerson, a former Fiat Lux blogger, is currentlyon a Fulbright in Uganda and wrote a dispatch for Foreignpolicy.com explaining the brutal  recent terrorist attacks in Kampala: It’s clear why al-Shabab would have picked Uganda: It is the largest supplier of peacekeepers in the African Union Mission in Somalia(AMISOM), sharing with Burundi the burden of [...]

The 2010 Job Market, Part II

by Paul Craft

As Stanford’s Class of 2010 dives into the working world, the job market numbers look pretty grim, but not as grim as you may think. British newspaper The Telegraph parses some economic data: The share of the US working-age population with jobs in June actually fell from 58.7% to 58.5%. This is the real stress indicator. The [...]

The Class of 2010′s Job Market

by Paul Craft

For most of the 2000s, college graduates faced a great job market. Students from an institution like Stanford seemingly had a menu of great entry-level positions to choose from. Then fall 2008 happened. Members of the class of 2008 were laid off.  Some recruiting channels dried up. The Class of 2009 had difficulty finding decent [...]

Charting new territory for Overseas Studies?

by Paul Craft

Despite recent financial tremors, the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) appears to be on solid ground. At least, judging by its new leadership. Robert Sinclair, professor of Material Sciences and Engineering, will succeed Norman Naimark of the History Dept. this September as the Director of BOSP. In a recent interview with the Daily, Sinclair highlighted [...]

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