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Is Higher Education Too Expensive for the Middle Class?

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The middle class has traditionally believed that higher education was crucial for climbing the success ladder and making money. However, many boomer college students decided to take more liberal education options having little fear of finding careers that paid well.

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Overcoming the Oxymoron: Family Business

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Over the past few years, more family-firm leaders have been turning to executive-education courses tailored to their needs. Currently, the Family Firm Institute lists 182 schools offering family-business courses, including two dozen targeted executive-education programs throughout the world.

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NCAA's Leadership Failure in Governing the Commercialization of College Sports

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The NCAA's core purpose is to: govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount. Source: The New York Times, August 21, 2011.

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Where Do You Rank?

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According to Michael Bastedo, an educational sociologist at the University of Michigan, "rankings drive reputation." Source: Malcolm Gladwell, The Order of Things in The New Yorker, February 14, 2011. Penn State does have a law school today, by the way.). And where do these kinds of reputational prejudices come from?

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When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women

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In the book, we deftly examine the reasons behind why so many articulate and well-educated women today feel overwhelmed and underappreciated. Agno, ISBN-10: 0983586527, Availability: August 2011 . We believe this book deserves to be read by all women who strive to achieve fulfillment in both their personal and professional lives.

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Self-Knowledge Through Self-Assessments

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Mayer says the roots of modern personality tests date back to the early 1900s, when French psychologist Alfred Binet created an intelligence test predicting which children had special needs requiring alternative education. Source: The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2011. Testing spread to the U.S. Self-awareness facilitates change.

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Entrepreneurship: Transforming Nothing into Something

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By Scott Adams, the creator of " Dilbert ," abstracted from How to Get a Real Education in The Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2011. If you're having a hard time imagining what an education in entrepreneurship should include, allow me to prime the pump with some lessons I've learned along the way. Combine Skills.