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Congratulations to the Class of 2012 at the University of Massachusetts! Photos by Brian McDermott
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See a slideshow of pictures from the Community Journalism class visit to Washington, D.C., along with 15 Commerce High School students. Community Journalism partnered with the Springfield, Mass., high school throughout the year. Photo by Stacey Linehan
Check out this audio slideshow and story about new Hampshire College president Jonathan Lash on the Huffington Post. It was produced by Hampshire College students Duncan Sullivan and Remy Schwartz for their journalism classes at UMass.
And, to complete the Five College circle, UMass Journalism alum Will McGuinness published the piece in his capacity as editor of the Huffington Post’s College section.
Commencement 2012- with legendary journalist Ted Koppel as the speaker, no less- is only two weeks away! Senior journalism majors are all welcome at the senior lunch in Bartlett 107 at noon on Thursday, May 3. Photo from 2011 graduation by Brian McDermott.
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53% of Recent College Grads Are Jobless or Underemployed—How?
More than half of America’s recent college graduates are either unemployed or working in a job that doesn’t require a bachelor’s degree, the Associated Press reported this weekend. The story would seem to be more evidence that, regardless of your education, the wake of the Great Recession has been a terrible time to be young and hunting for work.
But are we really becoming another Greece or Spain, a wasteland of opportunity for anybody under the age of 25? Not quite. What the new statistics really tell us about is the changing nature, and value, of higher education. […]
As the AP notes, recent graduates are now more likely to work as “waiters, waitresses, bartenders and food-service helpers than as engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians combined.” This is a problem for any number of reasons, but here are two big ones: First, a degree is more expensive than ever, and students are piling on debt to finance their educations. It’s much harder to pay back loans while working for tips at Buffalo Wild Wings than when you have a decent office job. Second, when college graduates take a low-paid, low-skill job, they’re probably displacing a less educated worker, For every underemployed college degree holder, there’s a decent chance someone with just a high school diploma is out of work entirely.
So is a college education simply less valuable than in the past? In some respects, yes. According to the Census, the number of Americans under the age of 25 with at least a bachelor’s degree has grown 38 percent since 2000. Not nearly enough jobs have been created to accommodate them, which has resulted in falling wages for young college graduates in the past decade, as well as the employment problems we’re now seeing.
That said, not all degrees are created equal. The AP reports that students who graduated out of the sciences or other technical fields, such as accounting, were much less likely to be jobless or underemployed than humanities and arts graduates. You know that old saw about how college is just about getting a fancy piece of paper? Not true. For an education to be worth anything these days, it needs to impart skills.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2y5oepXGh1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
53% of Recent College Grads Are Jobless or Underemployed—How?
More than half of America’s recent college graduates are either unemployed or working in a job that doesn’t require a bachelor’s degree, the Associated Press reported this weekend. The story would seem to be more evidence that, regardless of your education, the wake of the Great Recession has been a terrible time to be young and hunting for work.
But are we really becoming another Greece or Spain, a wasteland of opportunity for anybody under the age of 25? Not quite. What the new statistics really tell us about is the changing nature, and value, of higher education. […]
As the AP notes, recent graduates are now more likely to work as “waiters, waitresses, bartenders and food-service helpers than as engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians combined.” This is a problem for any number of reasons, but here are two big ones: First, a degree is more expensive than ever, and students are piling on debt to finance their educations. It’s much harder to pay back loans while working for tips at Buffalo Wild Wings than when you have a decent office job. Second, when college graduates take a low-paid, low-skill job, they’re probably displacing a less educated worker, For every underemployed college degree holder, there’s a decent chance someone with just a high school diploma is out of work entirely.
So is a college education simply less valuable than in the past? In some respects, yes. According to the Census, the number of Americans under the age of 25 with at least a bachelor’s degree has grown 38 percent since 2000. Not nearly enough jobs have been created to accommodate them, which has resulted in falling wages for young college graduates in the past decade, as well as the employment problems we’re now seeing.
That said, not all degrees are created equal. The AP reports that students who graduated out of the sciences or other technical fields, such as accounting, were much less likely to be jobless or underemployed than humanities and arts graduates. You know that old saw about how college is just about getting a fancy piece of paper? Not true. For an education to be worth anything these days, it needs to impart skills.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
Here’s our Tumblr S.E.O. exercise for the week: can the UMass Journalism website get a hit from North Dakota?
“After watching the large Secret Service apparatus that surrounds the President around the world, I realized many of their duties are a study in contradictions,” Kraft told me. “They are close to the President, but rarely interact with him. They are surrounded by excited crowds and movement, but must remain calm and focussed. They observe the ultimate power and privilege, but are there to protect it instead of experience it. Despite long days frequently filled with monotonous and repetitive duties, they maintain a steely decorum and laser focus. It is not the James Bond movie most imagine.”
- Veteran photographer Brooks Kraft, who has been covering the White House for the past twelve years, became drawn to those people who, as he describes it, “shield the President from the world by creating a secure bubble around him, where he is visible, yet almost untouchable.” For more of Kraft’s photographs of the Secret Service: http://nyr.kr/JqkGGl
Mark Stencel, the managing editor for digital news at NPR, spoke last night to a good crowd and has been visiting UMass journalism classes this week as our first Howard Ziff Journalist-in-Residence. Here he is in B.J. Roche’s 301 class on Wednesday. Photos by Brian McDermott
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Sara Ganim- who is 24!- won a Pulitzer Prize with colleagues at the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News for her coverage of the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State. This photo is by Christine Baker of The Patriot-News.
Huffington Post Wins Pulitzer
“HuffPo is the first online daily to win a Pulizer.” - FJP
Right on!
The Huffington Post’s David Wood won a Pulitzer for national reporting for a 10-part series called Beyond the Battlefield that explores the challenges Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans face after a decade of war.
HuffPo is the first online daily to win a Pulizer.
Via Mashable:
The award may be Wood’s, but Huffington Post cofounder Arianna Huffington is a clear beneficiary. Over the past few years, Huffington has made a point of hiring experienced, well-known and (no doubt) expensive reporters like Wood.
The hirings are part of an effort to position the Huffington Post as a serious news organization — not, as former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has described it, as an “overaggregator” of “celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications… [with] a left-wing soundtrack.”
The complete list of winners is available at Pulitzer.org.
