Emmy Award-winning Feagler & Friends is a lively, weekly half-hour television discussion of local and national issues impacting lives in Northeast Ohio. Hosted by award-winning journalist and former Plain Dealer columnist, Dick Feagler, Feagler & Friends explores the various issues behind today's news. With a changing ensemble of "friends" ranging from journalists to community and political leaders, Feagler & Friends takes on issues from many different perspectives. Always entertaining and never boring, Feagler & Friends is the program for people "in the know" in Northeast Ohio.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Topics: Education, Politics, Other
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A special edition of Feagler & Friends: College Graduates

Some wag said the purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. A lot of people are approaching college graduation day. They’ll get their B.A. or perhaps their M-B-A, but will they get a j-o-b? Newly-minted college grads are gazing down from the towers of academe at a bleak landscape. The economy is in the tank, unemployment is the highest it’s been since these graduates were in first grade and most companies have decreased their hiring plans. The report 2008-2009 Recruiting Trends from Michigan State University shows just how grim things have become in the entry-level job market. The report says “In two short years, we have moved from a zenith of exuberant and aggressive college hiring, through a period of cautious optimism, to a place of quiet desperation.” This week on Feagler and Friends we talk with four of the best and brightest from local colleges about their hopes and dreams.

Program Guests:

Brandon Bradford, Case Western Reserve University
Janda Vest, Cleveland State University
Ashley Kennedy, Baldwin-Wallace College
Peter Niro, John Carroll University

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