Education

This Wednesday, the area’s largest employer has scheduled an education fair for individuals on post and is open to the public.   Fort Gordon’s annual Education Fair is set for June 24. It brings together representatives from more than two dozen colleges and organizations with information on all levels of post-secondary educational options. The Fort Gordon Education Center coordinates it. “The education fair is designed to bring community partners, colleges that we normally don’t have on the installation, to allow them to talk to colleges face to face,” Myron Latham, Supervisory

Since graduating from high school nearly 50 years ago, I have spent about 40 of them on college campuses, with almost 30 of them as a business school faculty member and/or administrator. Much has changed in higher education in that time, and in my opinion, mostly for the better. However, in recent months, I have heard from many colleagues, particularly “Baby Boomers” (born 1945-1964) like me and Gen Xers (born 1965-1980), that the higher education value to students is eroding, and I think they have a point as well.   However,