Author Archives: jakehorne8216
The Gen-Z Generation and Confronting the Future
The transformations the Gen-Z cohort will have to confront encapsulate climate change, career adaptations, economic and financial disruption, rapid technological evolution, social and political instability and global migration. All of this on top of 20 years of social upheaval and … Continue reading
Bridge high school to college with a Gap Year(s) (What’s the hurry?)
High School ——> Gap Year ——> College —-> Life Gen-Z students, those who are in high school or college have considerably more challenges, now and into the future than their parents or grand-parents ever had. They are more stressed out … Continue reading
The Gap Year As a Critical Thread to Future Success
Jake Horne and The Student Compass is a Gap Year, and College and Career mentor, for Gen-Z students. Faced with a confusing and a disruptive future, Gen-Z students need support and care now, more than any previous generation. Starting by … Continue reading
Why Go To College? If you are going to college, do it for the right reasons.
If you have an active and curious mind, if you are an explorer of ideas, if you are an anthropologist of new social perspectives, if you want to surround yourself with vigorous intellectual debate and fascinating people who want to … Continue reading
The Trauma of the Gen Zers 2000-2022
(Excerpted from Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America – authored by John Della Volpe) For Generation Z, fear, stress, and anxiety have been the dominant forces shaping the generation. Why is that? What is the World … Continue reading
Retooling the Educational Model to Support the Gen-Z Generation
The fragmentation, isolation, insecurity which had seeped into the American psyche before Covid, has been magnified by Covid’s impact. Institutional confusion as to how to respond and the devastating results of very poor, self-promoting “leadership”, esp. in the initial months … Continue reading
Time to Grow Up
We are living in an increasingly small world, with borders and siloed thinking becoming the default reactionary behavior and damaging to the social, economic and environmental health of the entire world system. “First World” societies have been far too complacent … Continue reading
Preparing for the Future: Careers & Life Transformations Ahead for Our Kids
So what is coming down the pipeline for this next generation of young adults? What change, what transformations, what challenges???? A fusing of technologies; technologies embraced by half of the World population, instantaneously accessible and fluidly transferable through nanosecond-speed flows … Continue reading
Existentialism and Instagram by Andrew Housiaux November 25, 2019
from the Philips Andover Bulletin Teenagers reflect on technology and being human, with the help of Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Pascal, and Sartre. You might wonder what a group of American teenagers have in common with existentialist philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre. Three words … Continue reading
Opposite Direction: Today’s political and social wrangling deflect and set back serious action in the face of profound Future Disruptions. Time is running out fast!!
All of the political mayhem the USA and around the World is sucking the energy out of focussing on the enormous issues and disruptions that humans need to prepare for NOW; occurring in the present and increasingly in the future. … Continue reading
The Student Compass - Transition Mentors: High School to College to Career & Life 