college graduates

Explores various career paths for liberal arts majors, including teaching, corporate communications, media, advertising, social work, and law, and includes tips on interviewing, networking, career research, self-assessment, and creating successful resumes.

A guide to foreign language majors to discover their career options, to target the ideal career, and to follow through to get results.

Guide to employment opportunities for English majors with information an assessing strengths and interests, choosing ideal location, and exploring unusual career paths.

Provides information on the various career paths available to criminal justice majors, and includes advice on self-assessment, resumes and cover letters, networking, interviewing, and advanced degrees.

"The central motivation for this book is imagining an alternative to the student loan program that better aligns with America's belief that effort and ability should be the deciding factors in determining economic differences. It positions postsecondary education properly as the central lever by which American children can secure for themselves promising futures, and it supports analysis of the extent to which current policy interventions facilitate these mechanisms, or not"--Provided by publisher.

"The commencement speech is the most popular public address of our time, shared every spring and remembered for years. Here, in an anthology of some of the finest of the genre, brilliant creative minds in every sector offer their wisdom: David Foster Wallace on living a compassionate life, Debbie Millman on the importance of taking risks, Michael Lewis on the responsibility that good fortune merits--and so many other greats. Some of this advice is grand (believe in the impossible), and some of it is granular enough to check off a life list (donate five percent of your money or your time). All of it is universally uplifting. Handsomely packaged with a cloth spine and energetic typography throughout, this book is a smart, special gift for graduates and anyone embarking on a new adventure"--.

Contains primary and secondary source documents that provide varying perspectives on the issue of whether or not a college degree is valuable.

Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.

High school senior Quentin Coldwater's real world never quite measures up to Fillory, the enchanted land in his favorite fantasy novels, and even an education at the mysterious Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy leaves him without purpose, but when he discovers a way into Fillory, his life becomes a dangerous adventure.

Presents eighteen graduation speeches from journalist Anna Quindlen, jazz virtuoso and educator Wynton Marsalis, feminism of Gloria Steinem, and others who used the podium to champion for peace, justice, protest, and a better world.