Take a moment to put yourself in a student's shoes. You are at a crossroads in life and desire something more. You know you'll have to work hard for your future and stretch yourself to accomplish your dreams and so you do what it takes. The economy and the pressures of your social image, family expectations and the promise of a career path point you to continuing education. The words from admissions departments, former graduates, publications, marketing, etc. all draw you to accept huge loans that you can't imagine ever paying off in your current life. But your current life is about to change, isn't it?

Recreate your greatest strengths in those you mentor, while helping them hold onto the strengths they brought to the relationship. Sharing how their strengths have helped you often shows them just how much they have to offer, and that by applying what they learned from you, they are NOT YOU, a a better them for that which they have learned.

Offers contingent on something such as background or reference check are not offers but mere suggestions of what an employer would offer you if their area of concern about your candidacy is put to rest.  Therefore never submit a resignation to your current employer without an offer letter in hand free of contingencies. 

Vincent Scaramuzzo, President, Ed-Exec, Inc.

One casualty of Ohio budget cuts could be state financial aid to students at for-profit career colleges.

With the state facing a budget gap that could reach $3 billion during the next two years, need-based funding for more than 22,000 students statewide at schools including Kaplan College and National College appears unlikely.

Those students include Belinda Shuler of Mount Healthy, who is pursuing an associate's degree in accounting at National College in Bond Hill. She has gotten as much as $4,000 a year in state funds toward total tuition of nearly $10,000 a year.

Even as colleges nationwide celebrate commencement season, hundreds of schools are failing to graduate a majority of their students in six years, a report says today.

Nationally, four-year colleges graduated an average of just 53% of entering students within six years, and "rates below 50%, 40% and even 30% are distressingly easy to find," says the report by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. It's based on data reported to the Education Department by nearly 1,400 schools about full-time first-time students who entered in fall 2001.

Delegation is about empowering employees to act and make decisions. When you delegate, you are assigning authority, responsibility, and accountability. Managers and supervisors who delegate effectively will always accomplish more than those who try to do all-important activities themselves. The free tutorial below discusses the important steps required for effective delegation.
Upon completion of this tutorial, you should be able to identify:

• Good delegation practices
• The importance of defining job functions
• The conditions that promote a sense of ownership among employees

This is a free tutorial! Enjoy!
How To Delegate Effectively

Roadblocks are opportunies...or they're just roadblocks. You choose how to relate to them.

Colleges must recognize students as customers buying into theirhigher education services. This is essentially the theme central to Dr. Neal Raisman's The Power of Retention:  More Customer Service for Higher Education. And, given the examples he cites throughout this intensive read, it's nearly impossible to disagree with that assertion.