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Recent college graduates tend to grab many of the employment-related headlines, as reporters and columnists seek to help them on the path to their first full-time jobs. But what about the vast majority of the workforce? The journeyman professionals and mid-level executives who are discovering some challenges mid-career? Just because they are road-tested doesn't mean they have all the answers. Fortunately, taking a cue from those recent graduates, experts agree that there's a solution that can help mitigate mid-career curveballs -- continuing self improvement.
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As public school officials grapple with crowded classrooms, high dropout rates, teacher shortages, and low test scores, a privately funded program is aiming to improve education by bringing best business practices into urban school districts. The concept is the brainchild of Eli Broad, a Los Angeles-based developer and philanthropist who sponsors the Broad Residency in Urban Education. The program trains former investment bankers, business school grads, and other professionals to utilize their best business practices in scholastic settings.
Recognizing the skyrocketing gas prices consumers are facing at the pumps, the Internal Revenue Service announced yesterday that it is raising the standard mileage deductible rate by 8 cents to 58.5 cents a mile, a rare midyear adjustment by the federal agency. The new optional rate goes into effect July 1 and is scheduled through the end of the year.
The Fresno Valley needs more Asian, black and Hispanic doctors -- and the University of California is trying to "grow" them in three Fresno County high schools. UC runs a Doctors Academy at Sunnyside, Selma and Caruthers high schools -- which have diverse student bodies -- to give academic help, counseling and mentoring opportunities to students interested in medicine. The goal is to help some of them become doctors who then will work in the Valley -- helping solve the region's doctor shortage.
Duke's Fuqua School of Business is in the midst of planning a massive gathering of students to sign a document that binds them to a promise that they won't cheat. The move comes more than a year after the business school came under a national spotlight in April 2007 when students were found to have cheated on a take-home exam.
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