Title
Life Before, During, and After College
Episode Summary:
There are some incredible university choices all around the world, including the US. However, there is a widespread belief that the US higher education system is the best in the world. Jenn summarizes specific studies that debunk this belief.
Later in the episode, Jenn and her guest discuss other aspects of studying and students’ lives before, during, and after college. Jenn has a conversation with Jeffrey Selingo, the best-selling author of numerous useful books about higher education. Jeff shares some interesting points and situations he faced while collecting and researching data in this field for more than two decades.
“Life is not a straight line. There are going to be failures. Learn from people that you can identify with.”, Jeffrey Selingo
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What you will hear in this episode:
- What are some of the most disturbing and surprising things about the college admission process
- Why success in college is not about where students go, but “how” they go
- How name recognition is different from what we think and expect it to be
- What are more useful criteria when looking for a college than the ranking and selectivity rates
- What skills do graduates miss when it comes to employability
- How traveling and studying abroad is beneficial to our soft skills improvement
- How parents’ visions of college can put pressure on children
Resources:
- Jeffrey Selingo’s official website
- There is Life After College by Jeffrey Selingo
- Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo
- Malcolm Gladwell’s series on his podcast that discovers the algorithm used by US News
- Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni
- Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on Campus by Richard Arum & Josipa Roksa
- Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education by Charlie Sykes
- Leisure College USA: The Decline in Student Study Time By Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks
- We’re Losing Our Minds: Rethinking American Higher Education, book by Richard H. Hersh and Richard P. Keeling
- The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Pay For by Naomi Schaefer Riley
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