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How to protect your professional reputation as more businesses use social networking to check out applicants

As graduation rapidly approaches, students have been frantically searching for work after college. And while they’ve likely bought a new, more professional wardrobe for upcoming interviews, such a move isn’t the only necessarily course of post-grad action.

More and more colleges are now suggesting that students also give their social networking pages a second look as well

As The Valley Vanguard, the student paper for Saginaw Valley State University, reports, employers now use sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to learn more about their applicants, since those sites have made it very easy for friends-and employers-to find one another.

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When it comes to hate and racism, there is a tendency to think that certain places are above such pettiness. Our college campuses are thought to be one of those places.

However, we eventually come to the realization that college, like any other place will always be a reflection of the greater society.

The incidents mentioned in this article do not surprise me nor should they catch you off-guard, because it is clear that America has (and may always have) a race problem.

Excerpts from the article appear below.

“It’s tempting to think of college campuses as islands of enlightenment, places where students embrace new ideas, people and cultures without the specter of hate hanging overhead.

Tempting. But it’s not always the case, as demonstrated by events on campuses across the nation in recent months…”

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This article was taken from the Seattle times, April 16, 2010, but was actually originates from Tim Barker of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 

Photo is courtesy of: Pauuwithw’s photostream

What I paid to to attend college in comparison to today, is literally night and day. The cost of college today is astronomical. Is it out of control? 

In a recent interview with salon.com, author Anya Kamenetz says that college has become way too expensive. As a result, she is all for students seeking much cheaper options such as online classes, even classes on YouTube (YouTube?).

In an article with salon.com title “DIY U”: The end of university prestige, Anya discusses her book “Generation Debt”, argues that a decentralized college experience — in which the least effective parts of college life are replaced by technology, social media and self-directed learning — can limit dropout rates and reverse the devastating cost spiral.  The interview is a must read…[DIY U]