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Solutions...with Courtney Anderson! (SwCA)
Episode 197 -
Originally aired 9/24/2014 9:00 AM -
HELP! SITUATION SPOTLIGHT series -
"Does It Really Matter Where I Go To College? Yes."
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TALK SHOW EPISODE NOTESIn our HELP! SITUATION SPOTLIGHT™ series, we shine the light on challenges that community members have shared. This episode is, “Does It Really Matter Where I Go To College? Yes.”
In this show we discuss A Stone* of Solutions™ including: 1) Why your education providers (or institutions of higher learning) matter. 2) It depends on what you want to do. 3) If you want to earn the most money, you have to have the best skills. 4) If you want the best skills, you have to go to the schools with the best teachers. 5) Revisit our show "I went to school, but never finished! How can I use the education I have?” RADIO SHOW/AUDIO PODCAST Solutions...with Courtney Anderson! (SwCA) Episode 129 - Originally aired 6/20/2014 9:00 AM 6) Americans with four-year college degrees made 98 percent more an hour on average in 2013 than people without a degree. That’s up from 89 percent five years earlier, 85 percent a decade earlier and 64 percent in the early 1980s. (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/upshot/is-college-worth-it-clearly-new-data-say.html?_r=0) 7) Revisit our show “How Do I Pick 'The Right' College for My First Degree?” RADIO SHOW/AUDIO PODCAST Solutions...with Courtney Anderson! (SwCA) Episode 082 - Originally aired 4/16/2014 9:00 AM 8) "At Harvard, 45.6% of undergraduates come from families with incomes above $200,000 — in other words, incomes in the top 3.8% of all American households." (http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2013/11/27/the-challenge-of-being-poor-at-americas-richest-colleges/) 9) Revisit our show “How Did You Graduate From College With Your Bachelor’s Degree at 20 Years Old?” RADIO SHOW/AUDIO PODCAST Solutions...with Courtney Anderson! (SwCA) Episode 179 - Originally aired 8/29/2014 9:00 AM 10) “Poor, brilliant students get a free ride at Harvard or Princeton. Rich families don’t care about costs.” (http://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2013/01/02/12-insider-tricks-to-pay-for-college/) 11) Revisit our show "What 'Rich' families know about college that 'Poor' families don’t.” RADIO SHOW/AUDIO PODCAST Solutions...with Courtney Anderson! (SwCA) Episode 118 - Originally aired 6/5/2014 9:00 AM 12) “Little-Known Colleges Exploit Visa Loopholes to Make Millions Off Foreign Students” (http://chronicle.com/article/Little-Known-Colleges-Exploit/126822/) 13) “…in 1979 when the first wave of Baby Boomers were the same age that Millennials are today, the typical high school graduate earned about three-quarters (77%) of what a college graduate made. Today, Millennials with only a high school diploma earn 62% of what the typical college graduate earns.” (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of-not-going-to-college/) 14) MOOC - https://www.coursera.org/ or https://www.edx.org/ Let’s share solutions for ensuring that you achieve the educational experience most transformative for your life! * A stone is unit of measure equaling 14 pounds |
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