{"id":5750,"date":"2013-04-30T20:52:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T20:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2013-05-08T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T20:07:25","slug":"5750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/04\/30\/5750\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future&#8217;s Rosy for KSC Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5751\" style=\"margin: 4px 3px\" alt=\"Happy Grad photo\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2013\/05\/HappyGrad.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"261\" \/>The College&#8217;s Office of Institutional Research recently conducted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/ir\/CLASS%20OF%202012%20SURVEY_ABRIDGED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">survey of last year&#8217;s grads<\/a> (May 2012) that showed that 94% of the respondents are either employed or engaged in further education. And that&#8217;s just part of the impressive news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among those who are employed, about three-fourths report that their current position is related to their studies at Keene State College, and 85% of these indicated that Keene State had prepared them &#8220;well&#8221; or &#8220;very well&#8221; for their employment.<\/li>\n<li>About one in five respondents is engaged in further study, mostly pursuing master\u2019s degrees.<\/li>\n<li>Among those who are engaged in further education, 95% reported that their current studies are related to their studies at Keene State College, and 87% judged that Keene State had prepared them &#8220;well&#8221; or &#8220;very well&#8221; for this next step in their education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the graduates surveyed, 46 percent still reside in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis survey demonstrates that Keene State College is a major contributor to the success of graduates entering the workforce or gaining post-graduate education. An investment in public higher education is also an investment in our state\u2019s workforce and economic development,\u201d said <strong>Jay Kahn<\/strong>, Keene State College Interim President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College&#8217;s Office of Institutional Research recently conducted a survey of last year&#8217;s grads (May 2012) that showed that 94% of the respondents are either employed or engaged in further education. And that&#8217;s just part of the impressive news: Among those who are employed, about three-fourths report that their current position is related to their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/04\/30\/5750\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Future&#8217;s Rosy for KSC Grads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":5751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-parents","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5755,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}