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Why College Graduates Are Unemployed

January 17th, 2012

Tony Carnevale, Ban Cheah, and Jeff Strohl’s new publication: HardTimes: College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings, states that unemployment for new BA graduates is “an unacceptable 8.9 percent,” acknowledging that it is an even worse 22.9 percent for recent high school graduates. Their publication showcases the reality that different BA degrees have different unemployment rates, with Architecture among the worst and Law and Public Policy among the best percent.

But why the high unemployment rates for recent graduates?

Here are my four non-empirical suggestions :

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One Response to Why College Graduates Are Unemployed

1. kymillia barnes Says: January 16th, 2012 at 4:29 am

   I agree. Definitely the numbers of graduates are overflowing but we need better graduates. It is not just graduating but learning and to know what to contribute on the future. They should know and learn what is needed. Choos

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Minnesota State Baseball Names Captains for 2012

January 8th, 2012

   Mankato, Minn. —  Head coach Matt Magers has announced that senior infielder Matt Kuchenbecker, senior third baseman Pat Dockendorf and senior outfielder/1b Jeremy Sudbeck have been named captains for Minnesota State’s baseball team for the 2012 season.

Kuchenbecker, a native of Burlington, Wis., led the Mavericks in doubles (18), RBI (56) and sacrifice flies (7) in 2011 and was the owner of a .320 batting average.  Named to 2011 NSIC All-Conference First Team, 2011 NSIC Gold Glove Team, 2011 Daktronics Central All-Region First Team, 2011 NCBWA All-Region First Team, 2011 Rawlings/ABCA Central All-Region Second Team and 2011 Rawlings/ABCA Central Region Gold Glove Second Team, he was also named was named honorable mention All-America by the NCBWA and Daktronics.

Dockendorf (Eagan, Minn.) played in 51 games and ranked second on the team with a 369 batting average as a junior in 2011. Doc Read more…

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Animal Studies Continues to Grow

January 3rd, 2012

A recent article in the New York Times explored the immense intellectual energy currently driving animal studies. Weve been publishing in animal studies for several year now, including our most recent title Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory, edited by Marianne DeKoven and Michael Lundblad.

Similar to our list in animal studies, the field itself has expanded to include works coming from a range of fields in the humanities, including philosophy, art, literature, film, theater, and religion. The expanding number of classes and programs in the field consider issues ranging from the treatment of animals and the ethical questions that raises to exploring what animals think and what they have to say.

Among the various scholars interviewed about the nature and direction of animal studies is Kari Weil, author of the forthcoming book, Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now?.

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California Study Finds That State k-12 Test Predicts Student Performance As Well As SAT

December 8th, 2011

Like most other universities in the country, the University of California requires that students submit scores from either the SAT or ACT exams as part of their application package. These tests have their origins in the efforts of a handful of elite colleges and universities to expand the socioeconomic diversity and enhance the academic promise of their admissions pools; to reduce the number of tests students must take to apply to college and the burden this places on both prospective students and postsecondary institutions; and to provide a means of comparing students who attend different schools with potentially different grading standards. Despite the appeal of a nationally standardized college entrance exam, critics have asserted that standardized college entrance exams suffer from several important flaws.

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Glynn Selected to Manage Twins AAA Team

November 28th, 2011

  Mankato, Minn. — The Minnesota Twins have announced that former Minnesota State baseball and basketball stand-out Gene Glynn has been selected to manage the Rochester (N.Y.) Red Wings.

Rochester is the AAA-affiliate of the Twins and is a member of the International League.

Glynn, who was a baseball infielder and a guard on the men’s basketball team during his time at MSU from 1975-79, signed as a free agent with Montreal after graduating from college. Inducted into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1991, Glynn spent seven seasons as a player in the Expos organization.  He started his professional coaching career in 1986 and went on to serve on the major league coaching staffs of the Expos, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco and Colorado. A native of Waseca, Minn., Glynn has spent the last five years scouting for Tampa Bay. 

Glynn’s son, Geno, played baseball for the Mavericks for two seasons (2008 and 2009) and was selected by Tampa Bay in the 43rd round of the 2009 MLB Draft.

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Why We Overeat — An Excerpt from “Neurogastronomy”

November 22nd, 2011

Why do we stuff ourselves at Thanksgiving? The following is an excerpt from Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, by Gordon Shepherd. In the excerpt Shepherd begins by looking at fast food and then looks at some of the neurological reasons for why we overeat at Thanksgiving and other times of the year.

[F]ast food contains a variety of food types and flavors. This is called the supermarket, smorgasbord, or buffet effect. This idea actually originated with a blind French scientist named Jacque Le Magnen in Paris, who became a legend in research on feeding. In the 1950s he began detailed studies of laboratory rats fed different kinds of diets. He found that on daily lab chow they showed little weight gain, but if he offered them chow with different flavors they quickly began to gain weight. This effect was rediscovered in 1981 by Barbara Rolls and her colleagues at Oxford, who called it sensory-specific satiety, meaning that with one flavor the animal quickly becomes full and bored with eating more, whereas a new flavor stimulates renewed eating.

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