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Texas Group Will Offer Scholarships To White Men Only
A new Texas non-profit plans to extend scholarship support to those they say are undersupported in higher education: white men. The group, called the Former Majority Association for Equality, was formed by Texas State University student Colby Bohannan and others and hopes to provide four $500 scholarships to white men by July (donations are being accepted via the group’s website).

Cornell Student’s Body Found In Sigma Alpha Epsilon House
A Cornell student was found dead in a fraternity on campus Friday, the Cornell Daily Sun reports. The student has been identified as George Desdunes, a member of the class of 2013. Desdunes was from Brooklyn.

Parent Offers Body Parts On Craigslist To Pay Off Child’s Student Loans
An anonymous parent in the Boston area recently posted an ad on Craigslist offering to sell their body parts to pay off their child’s student loans. The ad detailed a person 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 200 pounds with “organs in working order.” The writer offered blood, plasma, kidneys in place of the $200,000 in education bills.

A Generation Lost in Space: Overeducated and Underemployed in America

Originally posted on the Huffington Post – written by Amy Langdon and Nicholas Padiak ==> My partner Nicholas and I were given 10 weeks to film and edit a short documentary. The topic could be anything we wanted. And being members of a generation of twenty-somethings obsessed with both ourselves and sharing our every emotion, we chose a subject matter that was constantly on our mind and about to become deeply personal — the growing population of over-educated and underemployed young people in this country.

The (Un)employment Chronicles: Voices Of The Degreed And Jobless
More students are enrolling in college today than ever before — a staggering 2.8 million signed up in 2008 alone.  But the job market is not so kind as to warmly receive the surplus of well-heeled graduates. The Economic Policy Institute puts the current unemployment rate for college graduates aged 16 to 24 at nine percent — the highest number in 25 years.

Hey high school seniors. I have bad some news for you, according to the video and articles link (see link below), you guys are not ready for college.

It seems that several groups from teachers, to parents to administrators and so-called experts are greatly concerned.

High School Students Not Ready for College

Question for you… Are you as dumb as they say you are? or Is there a need for a new way to measure your kind of intelligence in the new millennium?

A second question for you… If the numbers are true (I personally don’t agree with them), who’s at fault you or them?

Are parents, teachers and school administrators only looking for a scape-goat, someone to blame because they have not done what they needed to do… and that was… teach you and provide you with a quality education.

Let me know what you think. Are you what they say you are or are they passing the buck. Sound off!

Also Worth Reading:

Don’t Blame the High School Guidance Counselors, Fix the System

College Planning Calendar for High School Seniors

Does Going to College Really Pay Off?

Myrna Brady, a 79 year old woman, graduated from Governors State University this past Saturday, June 12, 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts. Governors State University is located in the Chicago South Suburbs, just 35 miles south of Chicago.

This story is near and dear to my heart because Myrna happens to be my mother-In-law.

It was always her dream to return to college and graduate. But she was willing to delay finishing college when she was 18 to get married, then assist her husband in his new ministry and over the years raise 6 daughters.

By the way, each of her daughters are college graduates, three of them have advance degrees. Yesterday she joined them as a college graduate.

In an age where people are always leaving things undone, we salute you for never giving up on your dream!