by BlackEnterprise.com
January 19, 2012
Your Major Matters: How You Can Strengthen Employment Prospects
There’s been plenty of talk, rightfully, of how colleges and universities are complicitin the situation many college graduates find themselves in–unemployed or underemployed and facing a staggering level of student loan debt. Youth unemployment is at 18.1%, the highest it’s been since 1991 — when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track.  And for blacks it’s nearly double, at 31%. Which leads to a crude but, unfortunately, true calculus: Black students have the least amount of wiggle room, and by choosing a major that is more in demand, they have the most to gain. So they must take that responsibility seriously. They can’t afford not to.