Spring Break
(WASHINGTON) - MCT - The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen. (3) comments
Greg Young Jr. always wanted to be a professional baseball player when he grew up, but when he recognized he wasn't a stellar athlete, he resigned to re-thinking his future. "He could play," Young's father, Greg Young Sr. said. "But he probably didn't play at the level of the other kids. (2) comments
(FORT WORTH, Texas) - MCT - Nearly two dozen MBA students are enrolled in a new "experiential learning" course at Texas Christian University's Neeley School of Business that has them spending more time outside the classroom than in. This semester, the school launched Neeley & Associates Consultants. (0) comments
(PHILADELPHIA) - MCT - The stereotypes about accountants don't bother Drexel University sophomore Chris Betz at all. He's heard the one about accountants as dull numbers-crunchers, and no one could have missed the news about the failure of accounting practices at companies like Enron and WorldCom. (0) comments
(MILWAUKEE) - MCT - The lessons in Room 450 depart from the numbers and formulas, the hard truths about money that Tom Kruse and the other finance majors have been learning at Marquette University in Milwaukee. With the room lights low, 30 students watch a movie screen as the trader Nick Leeson, portrayed sympathetically by Ewan McGregor, hides a colleague's mistake and starts down the steep ethical slope that will lead to the loss of $1. (0) comments
We all have one big question in the back of our minds: How do you get from a classroom to a career? Career choices fly at you every day while in college. Which one is right? Where will you make the most money? And what do you feel passionate about? The choices are unending, and there may be no right or wrong career, but the big problem is fitting classroom knowledge into real world settings. (0) comments
(BERKELEY) - MCT - In 2000, shortly before California's high-tech economy went belly-up, the UC Berkeley Extension catalog was a 376-page book. Today's catalog is a lighter read, at just 144 pages, and listings of computer- and electronic engineering-related courses have dropped from about 90 pages to 10. (0) comments
(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) - MCT - When Al Lodwick graduated from pharmacy school in 1965 and got a job as a pharmacist, all he was allowed to do was give people the right medications. "We weren't allowed to discuss their medications with them. If they asked us questions, the law required us to tell them to talk to their doctor," said Lodwick, who runs St. (0) comments
(BEAUFORT, S.C.) - MCT - On the second floor of a training building in Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort on a January night, security didn't come from the barrel of a gun or the buzz of a Taser. It started with rote memorization of obscure foreign capitals: Riga, Latvia, and Skopje, Macedonia, and Vaduz, Lichtenstein. (0) comments
