America's College Bubble Next to Burst, Says NIA ('College Conspiracy' documentary)

PR Newswire ^ | May 7, 2011 | Gerard Adams

[2ndDivisionVet]

College of the Ozarks, Hard Work University
http://www.cofo.edu/future.asp

[cripplecreek]

I don’t think that Hillsdale College accepts taxpayer money.

Exactly my point. There used to be lots of private colleges around but once they started to realize they could get the federal grant money they just couldn't resist. As with all federal money, strings will be attached at some point.

[Porterville]

I teach accounting at a college. I am a damn good at it.

I also teacher computers. A moron could teach what I teach in the computer lab.

So there are classes that must be taught at school and there are classes that do not need to be taught at school.

[tbw2]

I was at a birthday party for one of my son's friends, all kindergartners plus some older siblings. The mother was talking about going back to school and she's working on her nursing degree. I congratulated her for going back now that her youngest was in school. She said no, that wasn't the factor, it was because she had 2 business degrees (BS and MBA) but had been laid off so long she needed a degree she could find work in. So she's back to nursing school, despite having dropped out of medical and into business 15 years prior. Another mother commented how she'd finished her nursing degree at said school and was working. Might go back to get physician assistant, due to the pay. Third woman had to leave early, to go to her nursing clinicals that afternoon at the hospital, while the child was running around at the party. 1 nurse, 1 almost nurse, 1 in training nurse. 2 of whom had other degrees but no longer had work in it.

All I could think of was the wasted time and money spent getting the useless degrees, and how glad I was to seek alternative employment instead of racking up additional credentials because the bosses said "we'd consider you for a promotion if you got an MBA, Master's, etc.".

[Porterville]

Aside from technical or other schools that teach a specific trade, colleges are utterly worthless. During my working career, I’ve found that the more “educated” someone is, the more dumb/stupid they tend to be

I have heard this from the Starbuck's barristas while I'm preparing a lecture that pays me 50 - 100 dollars per hour.

Time is money... ignorance is eternal... ugliness is to the bone.

[jobim]

Father Fessio & Ignatius Press are establishing the following online opportunities:

With the assistance of Ignatius Press and the Angelicum Academy, the College of St. Thomas More is launching the first comprehensive (48 credit hours) Great Books courses online—complimented by 12 credit hours of Catholic theology taught by Ignatius Press Founder and Editor, Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., Th.D. These classes will all begin this Fall term (Sept. 1, 2011), with more to follow in subsequent years, leading to a bachelor’s degree in the liberal arts (BA).

An Affordable College?!

Online education reduces so many costs associated with a campus (such as expensive dorms, board, campus maintenance and staff). It offers a new opportunity for students and their families to afford college once again, without incurring crushing student loan debt. Compare the average costs at various types of colleges in the chart below, including tuition, fees, room, board, books, etc. as calculated by the College Board.

COLLEGE COST COMPARISON CHART

COLLEGE TOTAL ANNUAL COST*SEMESTER COSTPER CREDIT HOUR

Private 4-year College Average$ 39,028$ 19,514$ 1,174

Public 4-year College Average (out-of-state)$ 30,916$ 15,458$ 930

Public 4-year College Average (in-state student)$ 19,388$ 9,694$ 583

Public 2-year Community College Average$ 14,285$ 7,142$ 430

U. of Phoenix (online)$ 12,100$ 6,050$ 403

College of St. Thomas More Online$ 7,099#$ 3,550$ 214

*College Board Annual College Cost Calculator (for all costs) ^Assuming 33.25 credit hours per year ( 1/4th of a 133 hour, 4-year bachelor’s degree)

# with CSTMO April Early Enrollment Discount; 15 hours would be $ 3,230

The College of St. Thomas More is an accredited, Catholic college, approved by the State of Texas to award a bachelors degree (BA) upon completion of a unique curriculum based on the Great Books.

JOIN US FOR LIVE, ONLINE GREAT BOOKS COURSES (WITH TWO TUTORS IN EACH CLASS)AND FATHER FESSIO FOR THEOLOGY ONLINE.

[cripplecreek]

Private 4-year College Average $ 39,028 $ 19,514 $ 1,174

College of St. Thomas More Online $ 7,099 $ 3,550 $ 214

[M-cubed]

Young people today form their personas behind computer screens and the psychological repercussions have yet to be fully examined. Perhaps that will be the next expose. <<

next time u see a reasonably bright kid with iron attached to their nose...face .. ears or ass...or God knows wherever

ask How much education they have...It will amaze ya!

Having said that..Most are all unemployed or working at temporary jobs...Happy as hell living with Mom or Dad..

(P.S... I like to engage them at McDonalds...They cant work there becauce they wont give up their “identity”...I like to have that conversation in front a somewhat new friend that works for Micky D's...She had to move to get the raise to 45K, and she doesn't have a HS diploma

[Mortrey]

Ping!

My sister went to Harvard.....

She voted for Little Stevie Dunham....

(”Ivy League Idiocy”)

[Matchett-PI]

Exactly! bttt

[Oratam]

bump for later to see if I benefited from said college bubble.

[BallparkBoys]

bump for later

[familyop]

Yes, the college bubble will burst. If not sooner, then it will after the bond collapse and interest rate hikes. Academics had best hope that their Uncle Ben makes that ride to the bottom as gradual and smooth as possible. Otherwise, their free traitor relatives will dump employees in efforts to drop oil prices and seize the economy up in a day.

It’s late. Government spending has already taken us to the precipice, and favored constituents are surely taking us over it now.

Have fun!

[latina4dubya]

College of the Ozarks, Hard Work University

my kids' babysitter went there... it was a good match for her...

[Immerito]

I’m sure Hillsdale college is a fine college for those students who have ~30,000 socked away to pay for college next year.

http://www.hillsdale.edu/admissions/financialaid/costs.asp

[Immerito]

I’ve heard good things about College of the Ozarks.

Thanks for the link.

[latina4dubya]

The College of St. Thomas More is an accredited, Catholic college, approved by the State of Texas to award a bachelors degree (BA) upon completion of a unique curriculum based on the Great Books.

thank you so much of for this information... we are not Catholic, but the schools we are interested in are the Catholic colleges because that's where we have found the top-notch Classical studies... we were looking into Santa Clara University and St. Mary's (Belmont) both in California... both are very expensive--but their classical studies are impressive... my son has been studying Latin for six years now, and will start Greek this summer... again, thanks much!

[rbg81]

Yes. At its core, computer science is about problem solving and organizing information [for problem solving]. The amount of information is only increasing, so I expect the need for computer scientists will do likewise. Its not as easy to outsource software development tasks as people imagine. Getting it right demands tons of communication, coordination, and testing. Cultural differences don’t help that. We have no trouble placing our grads and are constantly bombarded for requests for interns.

[rbg81]

Thanks. Remember—just because you’re biased doesn’t mean you’re wrong.

[AndyJackson]

decade. During the financial crisis of late-2008/early-2009, almost all goods and services in America at least temporarily declined in price. The only service in America that continued to rise in price throughout the financial crisis, besides health care, was college education

And what do these two things have in common: enomrous governmet subsidies and enormous government involvment/interferrence. Market forces are not at work in either of these.