Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, told us what criteria a word needs to meet in order to be added to the dictionary. Following is a transcript of the video. In order to enter a word in the dictionary it needs to meet three […]
Excuse us while we pack our bags and plan our new lives as teachers in Luxembourg. According to new data released by the OECD, the starting salary for a high school teacher with no experience in the country is $79,000. The peak salary for a veteran teacher is $137,000. The OECD’s full data set reveals […]
Theo Epstein, the president of operations for the Chicago Cubs, gave a rousing Class Day speech at his alma mater Yale University in May that struck at the heart of finding success in the most difficult situations. Speaking to the graduating class of 2017, Epstein recounted the feeling of desolation that he and his team […]
An MBA from a top business school can set you up for a lucrative, successful career. In fact, average graduates of a top-20 program earn starting compensation packages of at least $130,000. That’s according to the latest list of top business schools by U.S. News & World Report, which ranked 131 MBA programs based on […]
Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, may be one of the happiest retirees in tech. He left Microsoft in 2014 and is now splitting his time between being the owner of the LA Clippers basketball team and helping his wife, Connie, run their charitable foundation, the Ballmer Group. Business Insider met with Ballmer at […]
On the whole, Harvard grads make more money and land better jobs than students who graduate from, say, your average state school. After all, they go through a uniquely rigorous academic program and are educated by some of the finest scholars in the world — they’re pretty much primed for success. Except that’s not actually […]
All it takes is a single tweet or text for some people to reveal their poor grasp of the English language. Homophones — words that sound alike but are spelled differently — can be particularly pesky. Regardless, you should never choose incorrectly in these nine situations: 1. ‘Your’ vs. ‘You’re’ “Your” is a possessive pronoun, […]
High-school students all over the country are putting the finishing touches on their college applications. While the decision process may appear shrouded in mystery for college hopefuls, admissions officers know the intricacies that take place on campus. Reddit hosted an AMA, or Ask Me Anything, that featured former Cornell admissions officer Nelson Ureña answering questions […]
The summer vacation, while sometimes reserved for summer lovin’ and fun in the sun, is also a prime time to earn some extra cash and learn valuable lessons about hard work and responsibility. To find some of the best opportunities out there for college students, we asked FlexJobs, an online service specializing in telecommuting and […]
The Trump Administration is considering moving oversight for more than $1 trillion in student loan debt from the Department of Education (ED), where it currently resides, to the Treasury Department, The New York Times reports. The possible change was referenced in the resignation memo of James Runcie, which The Times obtained. Runcie led the ED’s […]
“If I get through this speech, it’ll be the first time I actually finish something at Harvard.” On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg gave Harvard’s 2017 commencement address and received an honorary doctorate degree. The 33-year-old CEO and world’s fifth richest man famously dropped out the university 12 years ago to create Facebook, which is now valued […]
In testimony to Congress on Wednesday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos refused to say whether the department will withhold funding from private schools that discriminate against students, The New York Times reports. DeVos testified in front of a House Appropriations subcommittee on the Trump administration’s 2018 budget proposal, staunchly defending the $1.4 billion school choice […]
Mark Zuckerberg is giving the commencement address at Harvard on Thursday after famously dropping out 12 years ago to create Facebook. And it looks like Harvard’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, has been hacked to show fake stories trolling Zuckerberg. We noticed the changes to the Crimson’s website Thursday afternoon, just minutes before Zuckerberg was […]
12 years after he famously dropped out of Harvard to run Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg finally returned on Thursday to receive his degree. Zuckerberg will give the commencement address for his alma mater’s class of 2017, making the 33-year-old CEO the youngest commencement speaker in Harvard’s history. You can watch Zuckerberg’s speech live at 3 pm […]
Across the US, thousands of college graduates are taking the final steps in their education. A lot has happened since they were born in the mid-1990s, and perhaps no one has seen the effects of those changes on future generations than teachers. Business Insider spoke with a handful of elementary, middle, and high school teachers […]
The Harvard Crimson published the results of its annual survey on the Harvard graduating class, offering a glimpse into the makeup of the class of 2017. The Crimson received 790 responses to its survey questions, reflecting nearly half of the class. The survey reflects student sentiment about academics, social life on campus, and employment after […]
Comedian and actress Maria Bamford used her graduation address to provide a lecture on the art of negotiation to the University of Minnesota class of 2017. Bamford, who graduated from the school in 1993 with a degree in creative writing, expounded upon the necessity for liberal arts majors to care about money in a hilarious […]
Americans like standardized tests. We evaluate kids at multiple parts of their academic careers, and high-stakes tests, like the SAT and ACT, are a rite of passage for entrance into college. Still, many people believe IQ scores aren’t the determining factor for success in life. While researchers haven’t definitively pinned down how much a person’s […]
Within Excel you can conduct calculations on multiple worksheets and workbooks open at the same time. Each workbook acts as its own separate window on your PC or Mac, while each worksheet acts as a tab within a workbook with separate cells. This section of the Excel Guide offers all shortcuts you need to open, […]
A report released on Monday by St. Paul’s School, an elite boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, details the “substantiated claims” of sexual misconduct by 13 former faculty and staff members at the school. The investigation, conducted by Casner & Edwards law firm in Boston, Massachusetts, was requested by the school in 2016 following an […]
Martin Casado is a legend in his own corner of the tech world for inventing a technology that radically alters the way computer networks are built. He invented the tech while he was a PhD student at Stanford. He took that invention, and two of the professors advising him (legends in their own right) Nick […]
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill stepped up to the podium at a tiny college in rural Fulton, Missouri. Flanked by US President Harry Truman, the former British prime minister proceeded to point out the cold war brewing between America and Soviet Russia. This speech, titled “The Sinews of Peace,” ended up sounding the alarm […]
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who recently said he has accepted a position as assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, plagiarized at least 47 parts of his master’s thesis, CNN’s KFile reported on Saturday. Clarke, a controversial figure and prominent Trump surrogate during the 2016 presidential campaign, received his master’s degree in security […]
On Wednesday, thousands of students across the US headed to their campus stadium or lawn for their commencement ceremonies. Students at NYU took a different route. Venturing far away from their lower Manhattan and Brooklyn campuses, they streamed up the subways en route to the Bronx. Their destination? The iconic Yankee Stadium. The stadium, which […]
Apple is currently rebranding its stores as a place that doesn’t just sell iPhones or fix Macs. Apple wants its retail stores to be a place where people feel comfortable gathering. A big part of this push is a new program called “Today at Apple,” which schedules free classes, concerts, and other programming that people […]
Before Mark Zuckerberg was the fifth richest person on earth and one of the world’s most powerful CEOs, he was a teenager with aspirations of studying at Harvard. He ended up dropping out of Harvard to work on Facebook, but next week he’ll return to give this year’s commencement address and receive an honorary degree. […]
Yale University has placed Pierson College Dean June Chu on leave after after insensitive Yelp reviews mocking service people as “morons” and referring to restaurant patrons as “white trash” were discovered by students. Chu will not participate in commencement activities or work with students through the end of the academic year, according to an email […]
We already know what fields are hiring grads like crazy. But what roles are recent grads flocking to after college? Job site Glassdoor recently released a list of the most common job titles that college grads hold in the first five years of their professional lives. The results are all based on Glassdoor’s research from […]
First Lady Melania Trump announced Monday that her son Barron will start school at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, this fall. Barron currently attends Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, an elite school located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan that runs students about $47,000 a year. After President Trump was elected, speculation […]
The man who spent years ruling on Wesleyan University’s sexual misconduct hearings has been charged with trying to meet with a minor for sex. Scott Backer, 39, was arrested four months after a man not connected with the police posed as a 15-year-old girl on the phone messaging app “Yik Yak,” the Hartford Courant reports. […]
Recent grads, try taking a page from someone else’s book. College may be over, but that doesn’t mean you should put away your reading glasses forever. Instead, curl up with some of the great reads that Chris Schluep, a senior editor at Amazon, recommended to Business Insider. These books all contain stories, advice, or insight […]
Princeton University may have an acceptance rate of just 6.5%, and Harvard 5.2%, but neither compares to the exclusivity of Yale-National University of Singapore. Its acceptance rate: just 5% — 1.2 percentage points lower than Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Yale-NUS is a joint university program between the New Haven, Connecticut school and NUS, […]
• Beta Theta Pi pledge Timothy Piazza died February 4 after a fraternity event. • 18 fraternity brothers have been charged in connection with his death; eight brothers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. • Piazza’s parents called the treatment of their son ‘torture.’ The parents of Timothy Piazza, the 19-year-old Penn State sophomore who […]
San Francisco teachers are some of the worst-paid educators in the state, despite living in what is by far the most expensive rental market in California, according to an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2016. Now the city is ponying up $44 million for San Francisco’s first teacher housing development, so public school […]
Bill Gates took to Twitter this morning to offer some words of wisdom to the class of 2017. Here’s what he had to say: SEE ALSO: This is the ‘safest’ age to give your child a smartphone, according to Bill Gates Like most good commencement speakers, he started out with some levity. Tweet Embed:https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/8641003576846090251/ New […]
Each year, the New York Times puts out a call for college-admissions essays to the newest class of applicants who have written about issues of money, work, or social class. In 2017, it chose four of the most poignant essays published them on its site to showcase the essays’ power and honesty. One of the […]
During her commencement speech at Virginia Tech on Friday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talked to the university’s class of 2017 about something that many in the college’s community know all too well: collective resilience. As Virginia Tech has done by grieving and overcoming together one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent US history, Sandberg […]
Looking for your dream job may feel like a full-time gig in itself, but don’t let that old cliché stop you from raking in the dough in the meantime. While it’s hard to find the time to fit it all in when you’re looking for a job, especially as a recent college graduate, part-time side […]
Minerva Schools, a college startup based in San Francisco, California, believes that the traditional model for college is failing students. Based on application numbers for the Minerva Class of 2021, it seems that there may be tens of thousands of students that agree. In just its fourth year accepting applications, the unconventional college received 20,427, […]
The rise of Internet-connected mobile devices has many parents worried for their kids’ online safety. Not only could they face harassment in the hallways at school, but they could deal with it in cyberspace, too. A new study should assuage those fears. Published in the journal Pediatrics, the study of nearly 250,000 American kids in […]
It’s graduation season, which means one thing: lots of unsolicited advice for grads. So, what can we make of this flood of insight? Well, some of it’s good. Some of it’s bad. Some of it’s downright ugly. And then there’s the stuff that’s quite spot-on, but seldom heard. Business Insider spoke with a number of […]
Betsy DeVos was met with raucous boos as she reached the lectern to deliver her commencement remarks at Bethune-Cookman University on Wednesday. For nearly the entire time the secretary of education spoke, she was booed, shouted at, and met with calls of “Go home!” from students and audience members. About two minutes into DeVos’ speech, […]
There was a clear pattern running through this year’s list of America’s best public high schools, compiled by US News & World Report. It wasn’t that four of the top five schools are located in Arizona — though that does happen to be true. It’s that those four schools, and one other in seventh place, […]
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is set to deliver the commencement speech at Bethune-Cookman University on Wednesday, despite vocal opposition from students at the school, civil rights organizations, and Florida education groups. The historically black university in Daytona Beach, Florida, is at the center of criticism for providing a platform to the secretary to speak. […]
The spring semester is winding down for college seniors across the US, and graduation ceremonies will take place throughout May and June. Many colleges have lined up impressive commencement speakers, landing reputable industry leaders in business, politics, and entertainment, who will aim to impart wisdom on the class of 2017. But some colleges make more […]