Laura Pappano

An online correspondence study was conducted to explore whether professional recruiters screening candidates for entry-level corporate jobs would view leadership skills acquired through high level participation in amateur sports at the collegiate varsity level more favorably than those acquired through non-sports activities. The experimental manipu...

Massive open online courses are the educational happening of the moment. Everyone wants in. No one is quite sure what they’re getting into.

Tickets to college sports--and men's and women's Division I college basketball in particular--may appear on the surface no different than tickets members of the public may buy to attend professional sporting events. But unlike professional franchises, colleges are non-profit organizations and, in many cases, public institutions. Decisions around ti...

In this issue: Women and Children: The Human Rights Relationship Adolescent Literacy and Achievement: Widening the Path to Success Is Literacy Enough? Squeeze Play: Why Title IX Is Not Enough

William Klein's story may sound familiar to his fellow graduates. After earning his bachelor's in history from the College at Brockport, he found himself living in his parents' Buffalo home, working the same $7.25-an-hour waiter job he had in high school. It wasn't that there weren't other jobs out there. It's that they all seemed to want more educ...