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Language and Tolerance, College Grad Jobs, Parent Previews
The Matt Townsend Show - Season 6, Episode 5
- Jan 6, 2017 7:00 am
- 2:23:54 mins
Dr. Amy Thompson - How learning a new language improves tolerance Dr. Amy Thompson is the Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Florida. Less than 1% of American adults today are proficient in a foreign language that they studied in a U.S. classroom. With that in mind, Professor Amy Thompson sees that there are benefits that make learning a second language worthwhile when it come to improving tolerance. College Grads and Jobs Dr. Michael Betz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at The Ohio State University. His expertise is in regional and rural/urban economics. His research explores factors that drive local labor markets and demographic change in the United States with a particular focus on difference between rural and urban areas. Finding a job afer college graduation can be tough. Are college graduates looking for the same things as they did in the earlier decades? Or has a changing world affected what attracts educated workers...