Email: reference-flint@umich.edu
Phone: (810) 762-3400
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This guide is designed to point you to online resources that will enhance your college experience, and help you with your plans for your career and/or graduate education. The Thompson Library also has print resources that you might find useful; please feel free to ask a librarian for help in locating these materials.
Includes a resume builder you can save, edit, and print. Over 700 courses, practice tests, tutorials, eBooks, and flashcards. Practice tests include GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, PCAT, MAT, and DAT, as well as trade certification, civil service, math and reading tests, and U.S. citizenship. Create a free account to access tools to help you do well on your college admissions tests and essay.
LearningExpress is also available to Michigan residents using their Michigan Driver's License or State ID:
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Resources to help citizens of one country find jobs or internships in another country (including the U.S.).
Provides world-wide job openings, internship listings, industry profiles and country-specific career information designed to help citizens of one country find employment in another country (including the U.S.). Constantly-updated content, including topics such as: work permit/visa regulations, resume writing guidelines and examples, employment trends, salary ranges, networking groups, cultural/interviewing advice, corporate profiles and worldwide job listings. Includes a directory of U.S. employers who hire holders of H-1B Visas, the most common non-immigrant category for university graduates who wish to work in the U.S. in their field.
Online edition of the weekly newspaper, plus data from the Almanac of Higher Education, blogs, job postings, etc. Covers 2015 - present.
Online edition of the U.S.'s major news source for higher education. Includes text of every news article and essay from all weekly print issues published since September 1989, supplemented with all daily website-only updates and new-media extras such as slide shows, podcasts, and videos published since May 1998. Also includes blogs, job postings, The Chronicle Review weekly magazine and complete data from the annual Almanac of Higher Education since 1995, including demographics, enrollment, staff salaries, tuition fees, test scores, and more state by state, with additional sections for: Administrator Data, including pay and benefits of presidents; Financial & Institutional Data, including gifts and endowments, statistics on crime, graduation rates, degrees conferred, and Congressional earmarks for higher education; Faculty Data, including salaries, race and ethnicity, and scholarly productivity; and Student Data, including characteristics, enrollment, financial aid, foreign students, and test scores.
About personal Chronicle.com accounts (optional):
Current U-M Flint faculty, students, and staff may create personal Chronicle.com accounts that will also give them full access to the Chronicle website from anywhere provided that they enter their personal U-M email address (ending in @umich.edu) as the email address for the account. To create a personal Chronicle.com account, click on the Sign In link that appears at the top right of the Chronicle website or visit https://www.chronicle.com/account/profile, and then click on the "Sign Up" tab and complete the form.
After creating a personal Chronicle.com account, you can sign up for the Chronicles newsletters which provide daily and/or weekly updates of academic news of particular interest to you and which arrive via email. If you have previously created a personal Chronicle.com account, and have used your personal U-M email address (ending in @umich.edu) to do so, your account should automatically give you unrestricted access to the entire Chronicle site.