08 MAR 2015 by ideonexus

 Law School is a Cash Cow

In the Wonderland of these statistics, a remarkable number of law school grads are not just busy — they are raking it in. Many schools, even those that have failed to break into the U.S. News top 40, state that the median starting salary of graduates in the private sector is $160,000. That seems highly unlikely, given that Harvard and Yale, at the top of the pile, list the exact same figure. [...] IT is an open secret, Professor Henderson and others say, that schools finesse survey inform...
Folksonomies: academia debt tuition
Folksonomies: academia debt tuition
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20 JUN 2012 by ideonexus

 Learning About Forestry

How to start on my adventure—how to become a forester—was not so simple. There were no schools of Forestry in America. ... Whoever turned his mind toward Forestry in those days thought little about the forest itself and more about its influences, and about its influence on rainfall first of all. So I took a course in meteorology, which has to do with weather and climate. and another in botany, which has to do with the vegetable kingdom—trees are unquestionably vegetable. And another in ...
Folksonomies: study forestry
Folksonomies: study forestry
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How Pinchot studied forestry, a subject that did not exist in his time, so he studied meteorology, geology, and botany.