Princeton mom to female students: Find a husband in college, or else
Forgive my lack of a proper set up for this story, one with wit or something deep to draw you in. I can’t pull one together right now that has more depth than, “what the entire **** is going on?” So instead of giving you a bunch of symbols to replace the string [...]
10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Turning Pro
1. The difference between playing basketball and a basketball career. Playing college ball was relatively easy because it was only one part of my life. I also had my classes, which I loved, and the general carefree attitude of most college students: Adult responsibilities were way off in the future, along with flying cars [...]
Missing: Leadership and Core Values
“It will not be sufficient for Morehouse College, for any college, for that matter, to produce clever graduates, men fluent in speech and able to argue their way through; but rather honest men, men who can be trusted in public and private–who are sensitive to the wrongs, the sufferings, and the injustices of [...]
College Degree Attainment Lags For Young Men, Minorities, Study Shows
* 30 pct of women earn bachelor’s degree vs. 22 pct of men * Whites twice as likely to graduate college by age of 25 * Implications seen for future employment * 14-year study highlights challenges for U.S. youth By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) – Wide racial and gender gaps persist [...]
Damario Solomon-Simmons: Football Recruits Warned About NCAA Fine Print
There is no time in which promises, potentiality, and pleading are more celebrated than during college football recruiting and the upcoming National Football Signing Day. Whether it be the daily phone calls, mountains of letters, or in-home visits, college recruiters will tell top recruits just about anything to get them to sign, and usually the recruiter [...]
Damario Solomon-Simmons: Report Cites NCAA’s Failure to Graduate Black Athletes
by Damario Solomon-Simmons Outside the fact that we now have our first Black President, no other area has had more sustained and visible growth for African-Americans over the last fifty years than the number of Black Male Student Athletes (“BMSAs”) participating in revenue-generating college sports (football and men’s’ basketball). In fact, today, BMSAs are 57.1% [...]
What Not to Say to a Working Mom
Recently, Amy Shearn shared a list of things not to say to stay-at-home moms. She could have just cited anythingElizabeth Wurtzel has written in the past year, but that would have been too easy. Instead, Shearn came up with a list that was funny and clever and pointed in all the right ways. Which got [...]
Running Scared: GOP Spreads Rumor That Obama Had 2.6 GPA in College
You know how you know that President Obama has surpassed Mitt Romney in the polls? The right wing smear campaign goes into overdrive. This week we reported the story of how some right wing outlets were disparaging Michelle Obama, accusing her of being a ‘black radical’ while in college. Well the GOP is still in [...]
Hey Kids, The Old Model of Success is Obsolete, So What Do You Do Now? [Video]
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Should you go to college? Should your kid go to college? If so, why? If not, why not? What is college all about? And in the age of globalization, how does going to college really help you stand out? A 4.0 doesn’t guarantee success in the real world anymore, so what can you do? Well [...]
Happily Ever After?
Every sports fan was outraged by the video of former Rutgers men’s head basketball coach Mike Rice physically and verbally assaulting his players. Lebron James and New Jersey Gov. Christie spoke for most of the country when expressing anger and disappointment in the behavior of head basketball coach Mike Rice. As the video [...]
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