Summer Classes

If you go to most colleges, you are going to have to take a certain number of required courses. If you attend Columbia University in New York, for example, here are core curriculum courses that you will be required to take . . .

Contemporary Civilization
Literature Humanities
University Writing
Art Humanities
Music Humanities

In addition to those courses that Columbia [...]

Not too many years ago, entrepreneurs were people with big ideas who were interested in making a lot of money. Social activists were people who wanted to improve the world. Very different people, right?
But that has changed. Today, we have social entrepreneurs. They are people who want to use their vision and business skills to [...]

Dr. Jonas Salk, social entrepreneur, holding two bottles of his life-saving polio vaccine in 1957

If you have been reading recent articles about social entrepreneurs, you’ll be tempted to believe that they are a completely new breed of human that burst upon the scene about a decade ago. Sure, lots of today’s most noted social [...]

By Brittany Hege
Ahh yes, Summer. A time for chocolate malted milkshakes, dancing to some good ole' fashioned doo-woop, and rubber-necking down at Lover's Lane. Oh, wait-wait-wait. Sorry, wrong decade. But, that's pretty much how summer goes: sweet treats, letting loose on the dance floor, and spending time with that special (or somewhat special) someone. Squeeze [...]

If you’re graduating high school or college in the next few weeks, you’ll be expected to sit in your folding chair while you listen to the philosophical outpourings of your commencement speaker.
Of course, the inspiring speaker that your high school or college recruited is going to have some wisdom to impart to you. But just [...]

It’s May. Why would you be thinking about September? You should just kick back and enjoy summer, right?
Well, maybe. But the fact is, May could be the best time of all for students to be planning for September, for some pretty compelling reasons like these . . .

You’ve got to take some MONSTER COURSE in [...]

I have the following conversation at least five times a year. I had it again just the other day. Here’s how it goes . . .
“I need to pick up three college credits this summer before I can graduate,” a student says to me.
“Well, you can do that for a few hundred dollars at StraighterLine,” [...]

Are you about to graduate from high school? Do you still have a year or two to go? In either case, here’s a suggestion for the months ahead . . .
Take a few college courses online this summer. 
Maybe you’re thinking that other priorities that come first, like taking an SAT prep class or attending a [...]

I got a brochure in the mail a few weeks ago. It was attempting to sell me a summer program that my kid – a recent college grad - could take to learn how to find a job and launch a business career.
The company that had created the program knows all the marketing “buttons” to [...]

You’re an online student. So when summer hits, chances are you will take your laptop along on your summer vacations and adventures.
If you like the great and rugged outdoors, here’s some great gear that you’ll enjoy taking along to the beach, to a yurt in the Himalayas – wherever.
Industrial-Strength Laptops for Rugged Terrain
If your summer [...]

I was having lunch last week with three other people. I started to talk about StraighterLine. The more I talked about StraighterLine’s low cost, opportunities to transfer credit, and other positives, the more intrigued my friends became.
“Man,” one of them said, “StraighterLine is like the ultimate form of home schooling.”
When you start to think about [...]

Earn some college credits over the summer. You can use the credits to lighten your course load in September, complete a required course – maybe even graduate from college a semester earlier and save a lot of money.    

If you’re a high school student, you can use summer courses to improve your chances of getting into college. The right online course can even help you pass AP and CLEP exams and earn valuable credits before you arrive on campus. 

So, is this a difficult time to find a summer job? Could be, but you know the old saying about what tough people do when times are tough, right? Now get out there and do it.

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.