College has become a participation trophy anymore. I do not accept 4-year college degrees because of this.
Far too many kids in college ‘graduate’ with so little knowledge or skills. They feel entitled to be patted on the head for anything and everything. They have failed to achieve and cannot grow as they did not learn the life skills necessary to achieve.
Also, most of their classes are “Introduction to...” type of classes. That is for High School, not college.
I know a number of large companies going back to internally publishing colleges and degree programs they will accept for employment. They are also reviewing transcripts for grades and course content. They take out “Women’s Studies” and other useless classes from the transcripts. What is left had better have the required courses or the degree program is rejected.
I, personally, only hire doctorate graduates from specific programs. College is far too soft on education for a Bachelor or Master’s program to be accepted. No online programs qualify, too much fraud.
I taught college, and was a student up until two years ago, and I saw the utter contempt for education in universities. I saw a black female in a Calculus course get passed with a D- because she simply wrote her name on the test paper. I saw students who couldn’t write a complete sentence get a C if they turned in a paper because the submission rate was only 15% for the class. I saw capstone projects with 5 people on a team and only 1 did any work but all passed. Colleges are money mills now, not institutions of education.
The Big Education Cycle
Make unlimited borrowed funds available to students from govt
Schools raise prices to scoop up available cash
Schools pay profs and admins big salaries
Profs and admins donate to Democrats
and repeat
Wow—you only hire PhDs? Only 2% of the United States population has a PhD. Very rare.
Well, the Bell Curve does suggest that the very brightest should be hired for any job—bus boy, whatever. Choosing from only PhDs would be one way to guarantee you are indeed hiring the brightest people.
“ capstone projects with 5 people on a team and only 1 did any work but all passed.”
Group work is becoming more prevalent in many law schools. This may be why some people who appear to be very lacking in intelligence have law degrees.
Unfortunately, I have heard that it is beginning in medical school. This will lead to a serious decrease in the ability of our doctors. We know because of Covid that so many doctors are beholden to big Pharma and big medical conglomerates but hopefully they will still have knowledge and be able to think.