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Opinion
It Takes a Mentor
Gallup says successful students had one or more teachers who were mentors, and they had an internship related to what they were learning in school.
Opinion
Ways to Look at a College Education
Readers respond to a column by Frank Bruni and letters about career training.
Business Day
Do You Hire Employees on a Trial Basis?
Do you think job candidates are willing to work for three months on a contract before being hired full-time?
Business Day
When Employees Knock Their Bosses on Social Media
Can an employee be fired for making derogatory comments about a business? How do you think the owners of Triple Play should have handled this situation?
Business Day
Weekly Jobless Claims Rise Modestly
Applications for unemployment benefits increased by 11,000 last week, but the jump is unlikely to cause concern about the broader health of the labor market.
Opinion
Invitation to a Dialogue: Working for Nonprofits
A writer describes the benefits of taking a job in the public sector and urges new college graduates to do so. Readers are invited to respond.
Business Day
Representing Programmers as if They Were Celebrities
One client was hesitant to sign on with 10x Management, mostly because of the 15 percent fee. “That could be $30,000 or $40,000 a year,” he said. “That’s a lot of money.”
Business Day
Be Nice to Underlings, Jefferies Bankers Are Told
“Creating unnecessary projects or deadlines, or just being insensitive makes you a jerk,” two top Jefferies executives write in a letter to their bankers.
Business Day
Here's How to Keep Competitors From Poaching Your Employees
It hurts when a company invests time, money and resources to train new hires, and then sees them walk out the door for a few dollars. It can be a huge and demoralizing loss for the culture and the profits of a company.
U.S.
California Bill Sets Sights on Curbing Campus Sexual Assaults
The state is poised to become the first to require all colleges receiving state funds to bolster their efforts and require that students give active consent before all sexual activity.
Business Day
A Simple Equation: More Education = More Income
The United States trails nearly all other industrialized nations when it comes to educational equality, and it shows in income inequality.
World
Group Urges Action Against Sexual Harassment on University Campuses
A group of professors and students have called on Chinese education officials and university administrators to take more vigorous action against sexual harassment on university campuses.
Opinion
Requiring Consent to Sex on Campus
Readers respond to an Op-Ed article by Michael Kimmel and Gloria Steinem praising such policies.
Opinion
A Summer Job Isn’t What It Used to Be
A summer job flipping burgers or bussing tables used to be a way for teenagers to earn some money and gain work experience. Increasingly, it’s an indicator of life in the working class. What changed?
The Upshot
Top Colleges That Enroll Rich, Middle Class and Poor
A new index measures which colleges have the most economically diverse student bodies — and charge the least to lower-income students.
N.Y. / Region
At Surgery Clinic, Rush to Save Joan Rivers’s Life
New York City officials said 10 emergency medical workers had arrived at a medical center in Manhattan after receiving a call that Ms. Rivers had gone into cardiac arrest.
World
Obama, in Speech on ISIS, Promises Sustained Effort to Rout Militants
President Obama expanded the campaign against ISIS to include airstrikes in Syria and more American advisers in Iraq, but he sought to distinguish the new action from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Technology
The iPhone 6 Goes Big, as Apple Aims Small With a Smartwatch
The company introduced two new smartphones with larger screens and the Apple Watch, entering a crowded field that has yet to capture popular enthusiasm.
U.S.
Seeing Abuse, and a Pattern Too Familiar
After Ray Rice’s football contract was terminated by his team on Monday, Janay Palmer Rice became a public example of the complex psychology of women abused by men.
