College scholarships: Show them the money
November 15th, 2011by Jane S. Shropshire, Lexington, KY – Imagine that you are a college admission dean charged with enrolling a freshman class. Your goals are attracting a certain number of students, achieving targets for quality measures such as GPA and ACT, factoring in diversity, and doing all of this within a prescribed budget.
Now imagine that you’re a hiring official for a large company. Certain jobs require special skills or characteristics, and the candidates you want may have plenty of other choices. You, too, have targets to meet and a budget to consider.
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From high chairs to Harvard
March 3rd, 2011Lexington, KY – When I sat on college admission committees, I occasionally took calls from parents of young children wondering what they should be doing to pave the path to admission 15 years down the road. The first time I heard the question, I confess I laughed, but soon I realized that these were serious, well-intentioned individuals who simply wanted to give their children every educational option possible. However, along with their good intentions, their anxiety level was unnecessarily high.
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Adults find a new sense of direction on campus
March 3rd, 2011Lexington, KY – People are scared out there,” said Jerry Price, coordinator of Adult Student Services at the University of Kentucky. Indeed, recent years have given folks good reason to be scared. Economic challenges make many want to sharpen skills to hold onto jobs that may be in danger, or to position themselves for greater responsibilities at work. A compelling question runs like a silent creek through their lives: How and where can a person find opportunity?
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Green careers make ag school sexy
October 21st, 2010Lexington, KY – Although the population pursuing agrarian interests in the United States has diminished, our need for agricultural solutions has grown. How will we feed and provide fresh water for a global population projected to double by 2040? Manage climate change? Develop renewable energy sources? Manage land-use issues? The mere fact that more people are living in urban settings does not eliminate the need for effective agricultural practices. Instead, it underscores their importance as well as the ongoing relevance of schools of agriculture within the nation’s land-grant institutions.
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