Helping teachers in and out of the classroom while applying themselves to their own studies is hard work; so, why aren’t graduate students given the right to unionize? Is it because they do not earn much money for their work? Frankly, being able to unionize seems like it would at least be a bit of compensation to earn for working for little pay. Take away the title “grad student” and the job is similar to that of an instructional assistant.
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It’s that time of year – internship time. Hopefully you’ve already nailed down your internship for this summer, but if you haven’t this article includes a few tips for doing that as well as great tips for rocking your internship. These tips should get you extended, or at the very least a great recommendation at [...]
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I wish beyond all reason that I had kept a binder of every rejection letter and email I have received in regards to jobs and internships since graduating from San Francisco State University. You may be one of the lucky college graduates who finds yourself in a decent position after school, but for a lot [...]
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As graduation approaches (and thus the real world looms ahead for college seniors ready to walk the stage with pomp and circumstance) more and more people from various walks of life are going to start offering advice to the newest generation to academically inclined. Yet I can’t help but wonder if this soon to be [...]
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Although colleges offer their students health plans for attending their school, the cost and coverage may not be worth the hassle of applying. Having an optional health plan for students is actually mandatory for many colleges; however, some recent investigations have shown that many of the plans are not upholding the newest federal laws.
While some [...]
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Internships can be illegal if they do not follow the six guidelines laid out by the Labor Department, and California has recently updated their policies – making it easier for employers to hire unpaid interns.
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Lauren Felix is one of the most successful college fashion bloggers in the country. She has hundreds of readers from all over the world, companies send her free stuff to review on her site (some of which she gives away to readers), and she just landed an impressive internship in the buying department of Land’s [...]
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Although few internships will pay their interns anything in exchange for actual work, now there’s an Old Spice Fresh Adventure Internship that seems more like a vacation. Plus, the position offers a salary of $5000! That’s not too shabby considering the duties of this job include flying to Fiji or Switzerland for the summer. Unfortunately, [...]
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In the Major Breakthrough series, I interview former students who have lived through, and lived with, their majors during and after college. This week, we’re playing with the building blocks of the Architecture Major.
“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”
Ezra Cornell, 1868
You can’t find the Architecture major at [...]
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Are unpaid internships fair? What kinds of rules govern companies who employ college kids for free? It’s time we talked about the not-too-much-talked-about trend of working for nothing.
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