They should use the language of the left in these circumstances. They are predatory degree programs run by greedy professors and colleges.
Instead of creating a requirement for colleges, it would be far wiser and more effective to accurately and adequately council, advise and educate students about the real world and the earning potential of various careers.
It would be far more cost effective to hire advisors than it would be to hire “watchdogs” to study, recommend, and evaluate programs.
Student success (or lack thereof) is hard to fake, curriculum evaluators can be bribed…
It seems like the left turns everything into just a hang out feel good social group, college, the military, the corporate office, the basic workplace, everything becomes a place that the average female enjoys being in, it becomes pleasant and undemanding, and never crushingly challenging and brutally competitive, everything moves downward in standards, it starts slowing down and becoming more welcoming to mediocrity and average.
Cosmetology is a 4 year degree? I thought the discussion about eliminating programs that went on here the other day was about liberal arts -type degrees where a 4 year time-frame is unrealistic.
Here’s how it should be:
Naive freshman: I want to major in Medieval French Poetry.
Advisor: That’s a worthless degree. I urge you to pick something else.
Here’s how it is:
Naive freshman: I want to major in Medieval French Poetry.
Advisor: Sign right here.
My husband spent his entire career as a high school college counselor fighting some of these for-profit “colleges” - that promised degrees and great JOBS - that never materialized -while the students had to take out student loans.
He always said these “colleges” charge students tens of thousands of dollars - for which they’d take out loans - for $10/hour jobs.
He was a huge believer in the trades, coming from a blue collar family - and seeing how much we were charged by plumbers and electricians, something students could learn for free or low cost at a trade school.
I have to insert here than work is about more than just making money. I have two sons. My oldest is extraordinarily bright, went to MIT and now has a great job at a biotech. He met his wife at the company - she is also a college grad -and together they have a great life.
My younger son never liked school, never took a single college class, but found a great job running a small business. He actually makes more than my older son and his wife combined.
Here’s the big difference: my older son is mentally engaged in his job. It provides him far more “job satisfaction” than the money alone, and he feels that he is accomplishing something significant.
My younger son’s work is 100% transactional. There is little satisfaction beyond the paycheck. He has some customers that he genuinely likes, and many that he merely tolerates. His work does not make him happy.
We should never think that money is the only reward from a job, or think it is the only measure of success for an education.
End all government student loans. Government pisses away money like candy without regard for cost/benefit. The ridiculous push to make everybody go to college resulted in this mess.
If you want to go to college, do it on your own. My dad was smart back in the 40s. He worked in a copper mine drilling blasting holes during the summer, but, during the school year, he was a food server in a sorority! Smart guy, my dad!
There are only so many jobs for that doctorate in “Bikini inspection”
Make the colleges be co-signers on student loans.
The US education system at all levels, both public and private, has been deliberately sabotaged.
Medical Doctors are terribly inadequate in Ca. The nurses are medically trained well above Ca. doctors.
Mike Rowe, pick up the white courtesy phone, please…
I live in a flyover metro area. Big box stores are paying ~$18 per hour to start. If you are full time it is likely the job comes with full benefits including night courses at the the local community college.
I strongly believe in the benefit of double majors and also minors. Yes, Early French basket weaving is cool, IF you have another major that gives you a skill people will pay good money for. So, we should not subsidize non-remunerative degrees, but they are welcome in the curriculum. I still think a 4year college should provide a liberal education (in the 19th C meaning of the word. It is great for helping citizens think and become pillars of the community. It undergirded the minds of our great forefathers. But it’s not a career path for most.