Educational attainment in a global society

The Education Trust released a report this week showing that the U.S. is falling behind other industrialized countries when measuring high school graduation rates.  What makes this even scarrier (Happy Halloween, by the way) is the fact that my generation of 20-something year olds is actually worse off than our parents’ generation in terms of educational attainment.  Wait.  Let me say that again. My entire generation, the “Baby Boom Echo,” is actually LESS educated than our parent’s generation.  It’s true, you gotta see it to believe it (here).

Podcasts on enrollment management

Check out these podcasts by the USC Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice if you’re interested in enrollment management, college finance, or college access. They’re interviewing some of the nation’s experts on these topics, so hopefully these podcasts will have some nuggets of wisdom for folks to think about. Just passing it along.

Higher Ed Job Search Links

Even though I’m not officially on the job market (yet), I search for jobs almost daily. It’s good to get an idea of what skills etc. are needed to make yourself marketable, so I’m sharing some good resources that I’ve found handy in the world of higher education policy studies:

Higher Ed Jobs – here
Chronicle of Higher Education – here
Inside Higher Ed – here
Assoc for Institutional Research – here
Society for College & Univ Planning – here
Assoc for the Study of Higher Ed – here
American Educational Research Assoc – here
PhD’s.org Social Science Jobs – here
Educational Leadership Jobs – here
University Council for Educational Administration - here
Northern Arizona University Job Bank – here
Vanderbilt University Fellowship Link – here
Education Keys – here
American Planning Assoc – here 
Planetizen – here
Chronicle of Philanthropy – here

You’ll notice that a lot of jobs are cross-listed among these sources, but my philosophy is that it’s better to search too much than not enough.  Happy hunting…