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Why College?
- A college degree helps one achieve professional goals.
- According to the research being done at Georgetown University, by 2018 63 percent of all occupations will require a post-secondary education. (Carnevale, Anthony P. et al. “Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018” – Executive Summary, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce June 2010: 1).
- Average annual incomes increase as education level increases.
- College graduates have more jobs to choose from and more flexibility to change career paths throughout their lives.
- College graduates are more likely to own high-value assets (e.g., homes, investments).
- Opportunity to develop a broad professional network.
- College graduates have more flexibility over where they want to live.
- College graduates have more options for raising children due to fewer financial barriers.
- More capable of giving back to the community financially or through work that requires a high level of education.
- Opportunity to develop a broad social network
- Gain information and skills that one will use for the rest of one’s life.
- Improve one’s ability to express one’s ideas.
- Increase one’s understanding of the world and community.
Closing...
Write the answer to this question on the back of your do now.
Your friend has received good grades in school and above average test scores. However, she does not think she should go to college right away after high school because it is too expensive and she does not know what career she wants. She's going to wait and will see if she wants to go later. How might you persuade her to consider going to college?
Group Activity
Count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
All 3s are in a group
All 4s are in a group
All 1s are in a group
All 2s are in a group
What are your concerns or fears regarding college?
All 5s are in a group
Together...
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- Read the concerns
- Decide which statement is a solution to the concern
- Write the letter of the statement next to the comment.
- Under the concerns write why the solution helps ease the concern and help.
What are the benefits of earning a college degree?
Professionally
Personally and Socially?
Knowledge?
5 minutes of silent writing
What choices can I make to achieve my dreams?