A community I am becomming more familiar with recently is that of St. John's University. I attended school there for 3 years and then made the decision to leave based on personal, academic, and an assortment of other reasons. It had been 2 years since I attended school before this current semester and my long or I guess short term plan depending on how you look at it is to return to school there again in the fall. So I have been visiting up there recently, A. because I still have some friends that attend there, but also because I know the transition to going back to college will be difficult and I am trying to make the transition as smooth as possible, so I figure a little time here and there in that enviornment is good for me.
That being said in that community many of the leaders are the Brother, Sisters, Priests, and Nuns and on my last visit over the weekend I ran into Father Bob, who was the Faculty Resident on my hall my last year I was there. He said a very big issue that he is seeing right now is the uncertainity of the job market. Many students who are leaving with four year degrees, who a few years ago were shoe ins for higher level positions are having a more difficult time getting "career orientated" jobs, where many are just trying to find something that can pay the bills. The economy is also an issue. With the cost of tuition being where it is at private schools he wonders if that will play a much bigger role in where students choose to attend school in the near future. He says he is still very optimistic on what the future holds, but yet these are key issues that we are being faced with right now and hopefully we have seen the worst, but only time will tell!
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Probably a good time to "hide out" in school, if you can do it! Enjoyed your post, nice job.
ReplyDeleteAs I recommended to others, don't be afraid to title your blog. It draws people in and you can strategically use it to your advantage. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteA title's a good idea.
ReplyDeleteGenerally a good post, but could be strengthened in a couple of ways:
1. As I mentioned on another blog I reviewed today, you take too long to get to the interview. How and why you left St. John's are certainly important and worth a mention, but don't need to take up as much room in such a short text.
2. There are ample opportunities -- opportunities that should be taken advantage of -- in this blog to link readers to St. John's website, at minimum, perhaps Father Bob's cyberpresence (does he have a Facebook page? His own blog?) and any other thing that might enhance the information offered here. We need to think of our blogs as not an end point, a billboard on a blank wall, but as a portal to information, only some of which will actually be posted in the blog, the rest made available to readers through handy links.