Deciding on a major? Read on

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Choosing a Major Helps Determine Possible Career Paths

Narrowing down a major from the dozens of available options is overwhelming for students who either find joy in a wide range of subjects, or have not yet found any of the choices appealing. It's best to begin exploring your options, even if you aren't sure yet which university you'll attend or what classes you're taking your first semester. Jumping into a major without researching it will only temporarily relieve the pressure you're feeling from your university, parents or peers to make a decision. Doing so might mean more pressure later on in your college career, when you have to shift into reverse and reevaluate which major will truly make you happy. Get the researching and soul-searching out of the way before nailing down a subject.

Argosy University: Your Word

Let the Argosy University community know what you plan to do, or are doing now, with your degree. What are your word of wisdom for the next generation of scholars?

Keywords From a Librarian

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/keywords_from_a_librarian

This is the first of a series of occasional posts I call FUNQs, for Frequently UNasked Questions. These are perplexities that anyone new to an institution — whether faculty, freshman, or employee — is sure to have about the campus library. Some FUNQs, like that below, appear to be straightforward, one-time issues. After someone has discerned the answer, they think they can check it off their agenda for good. But no. Unlike species on a birder’s lifetime list, certain FUNQs need to be checked off anew for each library a person confronts. Many arrangements, both physical and virtual, vary from library to library, some to good purpose and some to no purpose. All a fresh student or scholar can do is accept that the campus library is not Walmart and proceed with caution as they would when encountering a foreign culture.

Some Parents Oppose Obama School Speech

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/us/04school.html?ref=education

President Obama’s plan to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday has set off a revolt among conservative parents, who have accused the president of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas and are asking school officials to excuse the children from listening.

What are your opinions about the president addressing school children?

News: SAT Scores Drop, Gaps Grow

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/26/sat

While College Board materials stressed those increases in participation, the data released also included news that may concern many educators: gaps in scores -- both by race and ethnicity, and by family wealth -- grew this year.

What are your own opinions of why SAT scores have dropped this year?

Cyber Safety for College Students

http://www.acmefiles.com/blog/2009/08/cyber-safety-guide-the-teen-and-college-years/

What cyber safety tips have you accumulated?

Ditch the Homework!

http://www.edarticle.com/homework/ditch-the-homework.html

According to educator Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth, multiple educational studies have found that contrary to our currently accepted thinking about schooling, “all empirical evidence dispels the notion that there is any causal relationship between compulsory homework and increased student achievement. Do you agree with this statement, or do you believe doing homework helps you learn?

Improving College Readiness & Success

http://www.highereducation.org/news/claiming-advisory.shtml

A new report released today says states can significantly improve students' college readiness and success by taking action in four key areas of statewide policy. Do you agree with the report? What are some other ways we can prepare prospective college students?

What type of school did you/do you envision attending?

http://chronicle.com/news/article/6749/most-graduating-seniors-will-attend-the-kind-of-college-they-prefer-survey-finds

Are you attending the type of college you thought you would, or are you a "switcher?"