The higher-ed bubble: ready to burst?

NY Post ^ | September 6, 2010 | Michael Barone

[Dr. Sivana]

How about tech schools?

Technical schools are just fine. Some of them are overpriced. Many of them call themselves colleges when they really aren't. They can have an important role for proper credentialing in any number of fields and careers.

[jazzlite]

It is about time some light was cast on this scam which has been going on for years.

[jazzlite]

Even there, changes are needed. For example, nursing programs..A long time ago in the old “Diploma” programs, nursing was properly taught. Then, academia took over and 90% of the program was book learning with only a day a week for practice in a clinical setting with a group under the auspices of one instructor. Now, that is fine if you are training a group of LPNs already familiar with the hospital setting, but with a group of novices, it is not even close to adequate training. I hear that now, nurses do go through an internship, much like doctors do, and that would be a great improvement, especially for patients who are under the care of new nurses. However, it is my view that apprenticeship is preferred over the methods which directly feed the greed of academia. I have two sisters who are nurses.

[Mr. Blonde]

You can test out of a lot of at least first year classes already.

[chae]

Or you can send your children to a Southern Baptist college. At SBU in Bolivar Missouri there are no frats or sororities, except academic ones. There are no on campus dances, and no opposite sex students are allowed in the female or male dorms, except on open dorm night, and then dorm room doors must stay open.
Back in 1994 there was some big dramam. A cheerleader had sex with a basketball player in an off-campus apartment. The student who owned the apartment knew about it. When it came to light, all 3 students were expelled. Roy Blunt was the college president at that time. Teachers are expected to obey a certain code of conduct and and at HLG there was a campus republicans club, but no democrats club. But at HLG in Hannibal, they will fine you for wearing a corset and dancing on the hood of a car.

[Siena Dreaming]

Barone is the most consistently right writer around.

[anton]

The way to end affirmative action and race quotas would be to announce an across the board race quota system whereby Mexican and Asians would be entitled to participate in college admissions, government jobs and other affirmative action based on their respective representation in the population.

You'd have Jesse Jackson down in Az helping build the fence.