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The Experience Paradox, And How To Beat It: Using Project-Based College Work to Land Your First Job

When freshly-minted college graduates are looking for their first jobs, many are frustrated by what can best be described as the experience paradox. Many supposedly entry-level post-college jobs ask for one or two years of experience. I’ve heard many graduating seniors exclaim, with warranted frustration, “How can I get my first job, if all of these supposedly first jobs want one or two years of experience?”

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Applying the ACE Framework: An instructor shares her course design

My name is Kayla Gaudette and I teach Tackling a Wicked Problem (TWP): Pandemics at Plymouth State University (PSU). This is a project based first year seminar that incorporates the

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North Country Community Development: Growing a Project-Based Cluster Initiative

by Roy Stever. In the Fall of 2016, our group of three PSU faculty members embarked on a cluster adventure in the North Country of New Hampshire. We were interested in addressing underlying economic and social challenges in the region and engaging students in both learning and “solving.”

Two students in a closet holding an old book they found

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North Country Community Development: Project-Based Learning Blog Installment II

In this second post for the CoLab’s Project-Based Learning Series, Business and Marketing faculty member Roy Stever talks about how he involves external partners with his students in the large-scale projects he facilitates in the North Country.

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North Country Community Development: Project-Based Learning Blog Installment I

In this first post for the CoLab’s Project-Based Learning Series, Business and Marketing faculty member Roy Stever talks about his work developing the North Country Community Development project with his colleagues and students.

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