Entries for month: February 2012

If you’re studying college algebra – or haven’t in a while and want to brush up – now’s your chance to review and learn college algebra online, thanks to a series of free new videos that StraighterLine has just launched on YouTube.

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College grads are much more likely to be employed.  The unemployment rate for high school dropouts peaked in February 2010, hitting 17.9%. In that same month, unemployment for Americans with bachelor's degrees was only 5.9%.  

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Are you a working mother or a single mother who would like to earn a college degree? If so, you already have earned our respect, because you are thinking about taking on one big challenge.  Raising your children is a big enough job to take on, all by itself. When you add the additional challenges of earning a living and going to college, you could be taxing your resources to their limits.

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Are you about to graduate from college? If so, congratulations. But . . . how are you going to get a job?

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Not too long ago, the idea of an online college seemed pretty far-fetched to most people. But as we know, online colleges, and online college courses, are widely available today. What was once unthinkable is now becoming commonplace. Those changes make us wonder, is there such a thing as an online prep school too? 

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If you’ll be taking some college courses this summer – maybe to speed up your college studies or help you decide on a college major – you have two ways to do it.   

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In only the last five years, internships have become one of the most popular strategies that college students are using to find jobs after graduation.  If you haven’t been thinking about finding an internship too, this could be the time to start looking for one. Summer is coming up. And summer is the time when most companies welcome interns through their doors.

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“I completed a year of college before I joined the Marines and now I want to go back and finish up,” a veteran named Jeremy emailed us recently. “Am I alone? Do you have any idea how many other veterans completed some college before going into the service?”

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Dixie State College tried selling naming rights to bathroom stalls, but failed.  If you want to leave a permanent mark on your alma mater, what could be better than having a plaque engraved with your name and screwed onto the door of a bathroom stall?  Nothing we can think of. And in fact, Dixie State College in Utah did try to sell naming rights to toilet stalls on campus for a while, then pulled back when the plan didn’t work. You can read all about it in USA Today.

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Create your own clever misspelling of StraighterLine and submit it as a comment below after registering on our website. You could win a new StraighterLine t-shirt with our name spelled correctly on it we hope, as a prize.

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