Alex Chediak

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Alex Chediak

Pursuit 2014 – First-Ever Boundless Weekend Event

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For many years I've appreciated the ministry of Boundless (a Focus on the Family online magazine for young adults), having first written for them in 2006.  I'm excited to pass along that Boundless, under the fine leadership of Lisa Anderson, has announced their first-ever weekend event: A gathering of single young adults, Pursuit is part conference, part meet-up, part adventure and all awesomeness. … [Read more...] about Pursuit 2014 – First-Ever Boundless Weekend Event

Higher Ed Reform Starts With Good Data

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Questions like "Is college worth the expense? If so, for whom? Which colleges? What are the job prospects for various majors?" are controversial in part because it's so hard to find accurate data. Senators Ron Wyden and Marco Rubio explain: In order to bridge the data gap, we introduced the Student Right to Know Before You Go Act, which would make the complete range of comparative data on colleges and universities easily accessible to the public online and free of charge by linking student-level academic data with employment and earnings data. … [Read more...] about Higher Ed Reform Starts With Good Data

What’s Happening to the Middle Class?

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I’m not one that has a problem with the rich getting richer. For one, it’s inevitable: Having more money invested means making more money over time. More importantly, jealousy is a cancer worth avoiding. And lastly, I don’t think that someone getting rich means that someone else is getting poor. But the poor not getting richer? The middle class going in reverse? Those are devastating problems. Perhaps you're wondering just how wide of a gap is growing between the haves and have-nots. Here's a provocative article in the NYT which argues that a shrinking middle class has become a foregone … [Read more...] about What’s Happening to the Middle Class?

Why is Higher Ed Reform Inevitable?

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In the words of Clay Shirky (professor at NYU and a few other things): Of the twenty million or so students in the US, only about one in ten lives on a campus. The remaining eighteen million—the ones who don’t have the grades for Swarthmore, or tens of thousands of dollars in free cash flow, or four years free of adult responsibility—are relying on education after high school not as a voyage of self-discovery but as a way to acquire training and a certificate of hireability. Though the landscape of higher education in the U.S., spread across forty-six hundred institutions, hosts … [Read more...] about Why is Higher Ed Reform Inevitable?