Pay Scales for Most Common Disciplines

Students graduating from Presley University or any other university are most interested in knowing the pay scales for the degree that they wish to pursue. They are interested in getting this information as to see will their degree be worth the money they are spending studying. 

In this regard, Presley University conducted a survey and more than 463 worldwide universities and institutes participated in it. Below is the list that shows the average pay scales for the most common disciplines:

• Accounting
• New Hires at Public Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 67,100

o   New Doctorates: 136,300 

o   ABD: 106,900

§  New Hires at Private Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 78,500

o   New Doctorates: 138,600

o   ABD: 115,200 

• Behavioral Science/Org Behavior

§  New Hires at Public Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 65,800

o   New Doctorates: 127,300

o   ABD: None reported

§  New Hires at Private Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: None reported

o   New Doctorates: 137,800

o   ABD: None reported

 

• Computer Information Systems/Management Information Systems
• New Hires at Public Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 64,300

o   New Doctorates: 110,700

o   ABD: None reported

• New Hires at Private Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 63,700

o   New Doctorates: 119,900

o   ABD: None reported 

• Economics
• New Hires at Public Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 55,700

o   New Doctorates: 87,300

o   ABD: 56,500

§  New Hires at Private Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 54,900

o   New Doctorates: 97,100

o   ABD: None reported

• Entrepreneurship/Small Business Administration

§  New Hires at Public Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 68,100

o   New Doctorates: 119,200

o   ABD: None reported

§  New Hires at Private Institutions (Average in USD):

None reported. 

• Finance

§  New Hires at Public Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 76,500

o   New Doctorates: 131,800

o   ABD: 101,300

§  New Hires at Private Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 91,700

o   New Doctorates: 159,000

o   ABD: None reported 

• Management

§  New Hires at Public Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 61,100

o   New Doctorates: 127,000

o   ABD: 84,400

§     New Hires at Private Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 78,000

o   New Doctorates: 118,100

o   ABD: None reported

• Marketing

§  New Hires at Public Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 63,300

o   New Doctorates: 120,900

o   ABD: None reported

§  New Hires at Private Institutions (Average in USD):

o   Instructors: 77,600

o   New Doctorates: 116,100

o   ABD: None reported

Lessons From “Up”

We are sure that you all must have seen the movie “Up”. The film critic Roger Ebert famously called the “Up” series “an inspired, even noble, use of the film medium.”

The movie provides insights into life that we dismiss as clichés. These are:

• Life Goes On

Science says that there is no course to happiness and no course towards misery either. You can sure be happy by cultivating an approach to life that emphasizes appreciation for the good things, as well as qualities like forgiveness and compassion. Cultivating positive experiences, especially with people you love, broadens and builds your permanent happiness. 

• Count Your Blessings

You should always be grateful for what you have.   

• Relationships Matter

The movie shows how important friends, family, and social connections are to an individual’s success and happiness in life — which is also one of the most important takeaways from decades of research into positive emotions. Invest in your life in caring for others.  

• Money Also Matters

Research also shows that once we secure food, shelter, and a minimum level of comfort, happiness springs from meaning and relationships much more than money. “You don’t have to be rich to be happy, but instead be a valuable contributing member to your groups,” says Cameron Anderson, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. “What makes a person high in status in a group is being engaged, generous with others, and making self-sacrifices for the greater good.” 

• Don’t Compare Yourself To Others

Research also found that inequality makes us unhappy — but it turns out that this has little to do with absolute amounts of money. It’s the comparisons that hurt. The strongest lesson we can take from the movie is that each life must be judged on its own terms.

 

How To Turn Free Lancing Jobs Into Great Careers?

Freelancing jobs have taken up the labor market by storm. According to a study from Freelancers Union, more than one third of workers are now freelancers even though the job market is improving and full time jobs are being created.  

While being Presley University students, freelancing is a great idea as it helps to build your resume and shuns any employment gaps. It also helps you earn an income till you find a full time job.  

Who are Freelancers?

Freelancers Union defines freelancers as everything from contract workers to temporary staff.

Presley University advises its students that freelancing is the first step in finding a great job. It encourages its students to have some work experience before entering into corporate world. Following are a few tips from the Presley University:

• Climb the Company Ladder

Doing a freelancing project for a company will give you an inside scoop when a job opens up as well as insight into what the position entails.  

• Show Your Worth

It is important that you show your hard work and provide suggestions to the company, if any. Regular meetings with supervisors can help remind others of your value – and strengthen your relationship with the team, putting you in good stead when a full-time position presents itself. 

• Join the Team

If you are freelancing at a company you like and want a full-time job, you should make a personal connection with your co-workers by mingling with the team, going out to lunch, or stopping by their desk to chat. You should also stay in touch once your project is over. 

• Start Small

Presley University advises its students to never turn down a small project as it might turn into a grand opportunity. Getting your foot in the door is the first step to showcasing your skills. Employers don’t want to have to start fresh for every project.

Summing it up, it is important that you take up freelancing projects, no matter big or small and paid or unpaid. Consider these projects as your probation period for the companies. During this time you can see if you are a fit for the company and want to work from them or not, if offered a full time job. In case you are not offered a full time position, stay in touch with them every now and then. It will keep your file on the top, in case there is a vacant position or a new position opens up. Keeping in touch updates the former colleagues about your work and roles and gives them a clear picture of what you are doing and managing multiple priorities.

 

Importance of Adding Custom Tab On Your Facebook Page

Presley University has received a lot of questions from folks wanting to know how we added a custom tab to our university’s fan page.

Below we have shown how to do it and see  if there are easier ways to accomplish what we have.

Develop a “Welcome” tab on your page with some general campus information. It looks like this:

Here’s how to add a similar tab to your institution’s fan page. Keep in mind you must be an administrator of the page you want to add the tab to.

First, search for the FBML app. You can just enter in FBML in the search box on any page.

You’ll want the application called Static FBML. It will look like this. You can click for a larger size image.

Visit the application’s page, which looks like this. You’ll want to say “Add to my Page.”

When you add it to your page, you can choose what pages or applications you want to add the FBML to. You can add it to multiple pages, but be aware that you can only have 1 FBML application on a page, unfortunately.

At this point, begin editing your page. Find the FBML area and click on the pencil icon to start editing it.

You’ll be given an area where you can title your box as well as edit the content. In box title, enter what you want the text of your tab to say. Don’t worry if you don’t know FBML, you don’t need to. You can put straight up HTML in here, complete with images and more.

Once you’ve got your content in the box (and don’t worry, you can always edit or add more later), it’s time to add it to your page. Go back to your fan page and click on the plus sign (+), which should be the last tab in the row, like such:

When you click the plus sign, you should see all the applications and content you can add as a tab. One of the choices should be the box name you entered when editing the FBML box. Click on it and it will be added to your page.

Click on the tab and if everything’s gone correctly, you should see the HTML content you entered in.

There you go – you should now have a brand new tab on your fan page you can add all sorts of neat content to.

 

Twitter In Education

Higher education colleges and universities use Twitter in different ways. Some are very engaged, some are not. Some see it as a great resource and others as a great bane. Twitter is great and an intriguing tool because it allows you to engage your followers in a way that you cannot do via email or a blog. Whether you update via text message or use a client for your phone, being able to update the world with what you’re doing anywhere in the world anytime is pretty crazy. It is real time, always changing and very participatory.

Higher education institutions can use it as a very valuable resource, such as the recruitment department can use it to monitor accounts and answer questions and re-post headlines. Institutions can help its audience – be it prospective students or alumnus to get connected.  They can ask them to come to an event or share with them a YouTube video or blog post they’d be interested in. They can ask for their help and feedback, and help them feel part of the loop and still part of the campus, even if they graduated 30 years ago. 

Presley University uses it Twitter account to market to students. It uses the Twitter’s text messaging powers to accomplish this. It helps the University to get new students to use Twitter without ever knowing they are using Twitter.  This was adapted from Brad Ward idea which is:

 

Once you have a Twitter account, and you’re feeding it content using a service like TwitterFeed or by posting at Twitter.com, you advertise to students that if they text follow youraccountname to a certain number they will get updates on their phone. That’s it. Not once have you mentioned you are using Twitter to send updates.

 

Presley University started doing this last fall for people to get athletics updates on their phones and a decent number of people signed up. Now, when a new story is posted by our athletics staff, followers of that account get a text message with a headline or the score of a contest. The people getting the SMS messages don’t need to know what Twitter is or how it works, they just get the updates as regular texts. Don’t forget – after all that setup – you still have a regular Twitter feed you can promote and people can follow. It’s a win-win.

 

Presley University plans to initiate this for incoming students also as part of its orientation program. For this they have set up a Twitter account for our orientation team and have also trained them in how to post updates from the web as well as from their phones as they are out and about during the program.

 

Now that the Presley University and any other university has set up the team and the account, it’s time to start telling the students about it.

 

 

Traditional Essay Writing Vs Blogging

Presley University teachers ask their students to write weekly blog posts on subjects of their choosing. Students at Presley University are inspired and willing to embrace blogging in addition to a formal research paper due at the end of the semester.

The professors at Presley University are thrilled that the students are doing this. The students wrote thoughtful posts and the teachers read that the blogs were freeing for the students and made it not seem like work. The teachers felt liberated too and reading their blogs doesn’t seem like work to them either.

This isn’t to say that they are not work, for the students or for teachers. But the Presley University teachers want to defend the traditional research essay a little bit. One of the students observed that it wasn’t a very useful exercise because students generally procrastinated about it, leaving it until the last minute, and thus crafting a sub-par product. Now, this isn’t an essential feature of the research paper, but it seems to have become its defining characteristics for most students, making it essentially meaningless in terms of a) evaluating what they’ve learned and b) getting the students to think critically about a topic.

Another student pointed to the fluid nature of the blog versus what they perceived as the concrete nature of the research paper, not just in terms of format, but in terms of perception and reception. For that student, blogs are eternally unfinished and incomplete, leaving room for revision, refinement, and further conversation. Research papers, on the other hand, become final and definitive. Again, if that’s an essential feature of the research paper, but it certainly seems to be how the students see it. A research paper is supposed to participate in the larger scholarly discussion of a topic, but with a built-in audience of one, they can see how students think that the paper only serves the purpose of earning a grade.

And maybe once the novelty of the blog wears off, students will see the blog as a chore to be avoided, same as the research paper. But while they are embracing the challenges of thinking and writing, the teachers at Presley University want to take full advantage.

Why Students Work?

Given a busy student life at Presley University, we need to encourage them to become less productive. Make time to not work. Make time to think. Make time simply to be. As time is all we have. One day, we’ll reach the last page of the calendar, the clock will stop, and our time will cease. While it is a privilege to pursue interesting work, we also need to make time to live. 

But why do students work so much? 

• Habit:

When we’re just starting out, we learn to say “yes” to everything. Remember, tenure is good, but portable tenure is better. So you just get on that treadmill and never get off. 

• Economics:

We work just to make the ends meet. 

• Busy-ness:

The more you do and the longer you’re in the profession, the more opportunities and obligations accrue. Some of this work is interesting, but it’s still work. 

• Work that is fun is often not perceived as real work:

Do What You Love mantra may be the most elegant anti-worker ideology around. This philosophy’s ability to refashion academic labor as a form of leisure contributes to the unrelenting sense of busy-ness. We work because we love it. Or because we think we should love it. 

• Technology:

It is both help and hindrance. Email, accessing databases from your laptop, and Skyping with collaborators in distant cities all help us be more productive. We respond by doing more work, and foregoing leisure. Social media informs us not just about friends and family, but about new articles and ideas, upcoming conferences, planned essay collection and can be an unrelenting time-suck. You can be selective about technology (attending to emails and social media only during certain hours), but can you turn it off? If you do, you may miss an important conversation.

• The volume and nature of academic work erases the boundary between work and not-work:

Because we have too much to do and because much of what we do is genuinely interesting, work always spills into the rest of our lives. There is the problem of imposing limits on ourselves. This limitlessness is a big problem.

We have written about Presley University students because we are talking about academicians. We are aware that many jobs encroach on what was once private time, that fewer and fewer people have a boundary between office and home, and that many of us feel the pressures of our thin-boundaried lives. We expect people in other careers could write a similar diagnosis of their busy lives. If they could find the time.

Time is all we have. We need time to think: thought requires time. Ideas need some idle, non productive space in which to thrive. This kind of sustained thinking is an important part of being human, but it’s also vital for good academic work.

 

Managing Your Finances

Anyone who has studied the recent recession and other financial crises understands the importance of financial planning. For more than a decade, indiscretions from consumers and businesses alike have had a profound impact on the global economy. It seems as though every year is spent collectively reevaluating the way we go about our finances as both individuals and as pieces of a greater economic whole.

But financial planning need not be complicated, nor does it have to keep you from using your money the way you want. It’s really about being aware of the money you have and creating priorities for how to spend it. This guide has been designed to help Presley University students learn more about financial planning and the steps you can begin taking now to ensure that you avoid a “financial crisis” of your own in the years to come.

• Step One: Creating a Financial Checklist

Many college students and other young people will learn rather quickly how important it is to keep their expenses in check. It’s easy to become bogged down with ‘new’ financial obligations, such as college tuition, rent, food, and entertainment. Getting started now with a financial checklist of your own may save you time, stress, and money.

Creating a checklist is simple. All you need to do is record your monthly income (from parents, part-time employment, financial aid, etc.) and your recurring monthly expenses. The goal is to reconcile (or balance) your expenses with your income so you don’t end up spending more than you have. Doing this will help you avoid trouble with nasty credit card debt or a low credit score.

• Step Two: Cut Your Expenses

Now that you’ve successfully completed a financial checklist guided by microeconomics, cutting out unnecessary expenses from your checklist is the next step. There are three possible conclusions you can make upon reviewing your checklist:

• Your income is more than your expenses. (This is what you want)
• Your income is less than your expenses. (This is what you DON’T want)
• Your income and expenses are the same. (You don’t really want this either)

If you fall under the second or third categories with little chance of increasing your income in the near future, you will want to consider cutting your expenses where possible.Sometimes this process can be easier than you think. If you use a cell phone, for example, take a moment to consider how many minutes you use per month. In many cases, the number of minutes the average person spends talking on their cell will be less than the number of minutes for which they currently pay. Therefore, downsizing your cell phone plan is often an excellent way to cut expenses right off the bat. Here are some more great expense cutting tips for students:

• Consider taking the bus or your bike to school instead of driving.
• Cook your own meals instead of going out to eat.
• Sell your used textbooks online instead of going back to the campus bookstore.

Identify how much money you spend on “non-essential” items, such as movies, video games and going out on the town, and consider cutting back on some of those expenses.

• Step Three: Manage Your Cash

Once you have created your financial checklist and cut expenses where appropriate, the income you receive per month will ideally exceed your monthly expenses. This is known as “positive cash flow.” We realize that reaching this goal could be a challenge, given that students may not have a very substantial source of income while they attend college. Even if your cash flow remains slightly negative or just breaks even, learning how to manage your cash now is a great way to prepare for the future.

While this may seem counterintuitive to what we’ve discussed thus far, once you graduate college (or even before you graduate), you may want to consider applying for a credit card. This is an important step toward building your credit history. Building a good credit history now may allow you to borrow money later for important things you may not be able to afford with cash alone, such as a car or even a house. Having a credit card is a great way to show lenders that you have financial responsibility when it comes to using credit and following a sound financial plan.

Any time you have positive cash flow, saving a portion of your income will be a top priority. In the long run, saving money can help you afford the vacation you’ve always wanted, paying off unpredictable debts, or even retiring comfortably. The best way to save money is to not question the immediate value of doing so, and instead to just keep on doing it.

Conclusion

We hope you were able to take away a few things to help you get your financial plan started the right way. Remember, now is really the perfect time to start. Remember, what you do with your own money is entirely up to you, but achieving financial independence after college could entirely depend on the financial decisions you make today.