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...report stated that 88 per cent of the class planned either full-time graduate study or full-time employment in the year after graduation. No class in the last decade has had so high a percentage of graduates committed to full-time employment or study...
...percentage of students naming only one vocation, a figure which had decreased steadily from 75.8 per cent in 1973 to 56.3 per cent in 1979, rose to 62.8 per cent for the Class of '80. The report stated that many students who had listed themselves as "undecided" about their eventual vocation were actually "focused on two or three career fields which they hoped to combine, integrate, or pursue sequentially...
...students' desire for secure careers is evidenced by the 49 per cent that plan careers in business, law, or medicine, the report said...
...Each vocation is selected by graduates from a broad distribution of concentrations," the report said. Of all the career fields, medicine had the most clustered distribution, with 74.9 per cent of those interested in medicine concentrating in science and math. This percentage, however, represents a 5 per cent decrease from last year...
Novelist James Michener criticized last night the current American educational system and the rare of a mass-media culture. Speaking at the Ask with Lecture at Longfellow Hall, Michener predicted that television will become the sole means of education for 70 per cent of Americans in the near future...