NY Times Praises Wake

[deac_tracy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/m...e.html?emc=edit_tnt_20130913&tntemail0=y&_r=0

No other school has marketed its career center quite as successfully as Wake Forest (which, at No. 27, falls between the University of Virginia and Tufts on the U.S. News & World Report rankings but has struggled with name recognition nationally). In 2009, the university hired Chan, who was running Stanford Business School’s career center and had led a Silicon Valley start-up. Chan has made a name for himself as an oft-quoted expert on getting young people employed. He has given a TEDx talk on the subject of reinventing career services and hosted, at Wake Forest, a symposium that was attended by representatives from some 75 schools. His theme: If universities want to preserve the liberal arts, they have a responsibility to help those humanities majors know how to translate their studies into the work world.

Meant to put in The Pit. Mods please move.

 

[DeaconWalker]

That was a fantastic article.

 

[PhDeac]

Agreed. Two questions:

1. What is Chen's compensation package so that he "can" earn up to $350,000 a year?

2. Why can't Wellman hire like that?

 

[DeacsPop]

Make's you wish that the athletic department was as innovative and responsive, doesn't it?

 

[sailordeac]

Very interesting article. Glad to see Wake embrace innovative teaching and solutions.

 

[PhDeac]

How is there not more discussion of this? This is GREAT press for Wake in the freakin' NYTimes for stepping up to address one of the big challenges to liberal arts education.

 

[deac_tracy]

How is there not more discussion of this? This is GREAT press for Wake in the freakin' NYTimes for stepping up to address one of the big challenges to liberal arts education.

It's the first good news in a while.

 

[Deacfreak07]

It's the first good news in a while.

Since we moved up in the USNWR rankings 72 hours ago.

 

[TownieDeac]

How is there not more discussion of this? This is GREAT press for Wake in the freakin' NYTimes for stepping up to address one of the big challenges to liberal arts education.

It'd get more views on the pit.

 

[PhDeac]

Thanks Liquid Karma.

 

[ProfessorDeac]

Good press, and good to see wake actually leading the pack on something. Nice seeing hellyer and rupp quoted, too. I enjoyed both of their classes, but rupp's 20th century Eastern Europe, almost all novels and memoirs, was one of the best I ever took.

 

[Deacsfan27]

Really great article. Also insightful for a philosophy major haha.

 

[bernbp5]

Agreed. Two questions:

1. What is Chen's compensation package so that he "can" earn up to $350,000 a year?

2. Why can't Wellman hire like that?

probably something that has him get incentives if x% of graduates are hired or go to grad school.

a great career center can really earn back its money. by helping grads get good jobs, they are more likely to get donations in the future.