Where Is the Value in a Four-Year Education?

Originally posted on the Huffington Post. I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Value. Okay, that wasn’t exactly how it went. But just as our view of plastics has changed significantly since the era of The Graduate, the American dream of the 1960s—marriage, a family, a house in the suburbs [...]
Jun 02, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Technology, Trends | Tags: American Dream, Bill Gates, college, college education, Dutch universities, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, higher education, Maastricht University, Mark Zuckerberg, New York City, online education, online university, open textbooks, Pew Research, science, Social Media, Technology, The Wall Street Journal, U.K. universities, university, university education, University Facts, University of Phoenix, University of Warwick, value | Leave A Comment »
Booting Up

This is the fifth in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter. Watch out in 2011 for the return of skin-thickening boot camps to toughen up kids and employees for the rigors of the [...]
Dec 03, 2010 | Categories:Features, Trends | Tags: "60 Minutes", achievement gap, African American, Asian American, authoritative, boot camps, California, Caucasian, China, competitiveness, Deloitte, engineering, entitlement, experience, helicopter parents, Hispanic, India, kids, Michael Bloomberg, millennials, New York City, overprotection, parenting, Pew Research, resilience, Ron Alsop, science, self-discipline, team-oriented, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tom Friedman, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, trophy kids, young people | 5 Comments »




