Making sure you can afford college is a very important consideration.  Looking to the future, after you graduate, is no less important in terms of managing your budget and borrowing responsibly.  Here is a great resource from UD on making sure you can afford college and making it after you graduate:

http://www.udel.edu/npc/

The use of technology in the university classroom is in a sea change.  Today, professors are increasingly using technology that caters to enhanced learning and course content rather than contorting their material to fit antiquated or limited technological approaches (think 1000 bullet PowerPoint slides).  Recently, I was featured as a professor trying to enhance learning through multi-ensemble technological approaches in the classroom.  Check out the videos of some of my recent innovations and class activities here:

http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2013/sep/tech-class-perez-091412.html

As soon-to-be Blue Hen alumni, I want to congratulate all of you on your accomplishments and earning your degrees.  If you are going straight into the job world, here’s some research on how graduates pre- and post-recession have fared:

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/05/20/47361/

Additionally, here’s some advice on emboldening your chances at a job with the use of Internet-based self-promotion:

http://sbcmurphy.com/the-death-of-the-resume/?goback=.gmp_2163388.gde_2163388_member_91049716

Here’s a nice piece that hopefully will answer a question I hear all too often: what do you do all day?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-herbst/what-do-professors-do_b_1396783.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false