Posted on 08/03/2025 4:41:35 AM PDT by daniel1212
I refer you to The College of the Ozarks with a link to their ABET-accredited engineering program:
https://www.cofo.edu/Academics/Majors-Minors/Engineering
Feel free to search their further for their faith-based information plus how they require students to work as part of the educational program.
They also offer degrees in science, such as Chemistry, Biology, & Computer Science.
Hillsdale. My bad
Medical school is...nursing school is...MIT and Cal Tech are. Transgender Studies programs...no so much.
College education these days is indoctrination in political correctness.
And what cause to join to prevent MAGA.
What if that youth has the IQ and desire to be a nuclear physicist? Or an aerospace engineer? Are you going to force him to learn to weld?
Why don’t you want to put the burden where it belongs? On the colleges and universities.
Home ec for the girls shop for the boys.
If you diy it is cheaper to replace entire toilet with a new one than pay someone to fix it. I can install a toilet in 1 hour. Lowe’s delivers.
Is it possible to get a doctorate in carpentry, welding and soldering, machinist work (traditional and/or CNC), tool and die, or metal fabrication?
Have 1 of my kids working and going to school for accounting. She’s been very disappointed in all the crap classes she’s been forced to take. I mean, you’ve just got to have art classes, Alaska culture, anthropology and all that to be an accountant, right? 🙄
Twenty years from now: "Why did my conservative son become a transsexual leftist attorney? Oh yeah, we encouraged him to go to college".
A STEM degree is always worthwhile. It is based in reality, and that translates across all endeavors.
Actual ART degree (music, painting, etc — physical stuff) is also of value, but you are gonna need a sponsor to make a living.
The other stuff is just crappola. Ask any child thinking about that to list five jobs they will get because of that kind of degree.
BTTT
I would not make any conditions for what the Universities should teach or “teach.” Cut off ALL federal funding of anything to do with schools and the schools will be forced to enter the real world and to vastly reduce tuition. Harvard and others with endowments so large will be forced to begin using their endowments productively.
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“I mean, you’ve just got to have art classes, Alaska culture, anthropology and all that to be an accountant, right? 🙄“
From the POV of those teaching the courses, it’s necessary so they can continue to eat. IOW, the academic approach to full employment.
As to your basic & most important point, a bachelor’s degree used to be achieved through 120 hours of course work but inflation has struck such that many degree programs are 130-140 hours. The academics will say this confers more necessary knowledge while the rest of us can see it is a clear cash grab.
A college education or degree on a young person’s resume’ no longer represents a person’s education, maturity or readiness to enter the job market. Recruiters are realizing that many college educated kids are a detriment to their companies well being because of their college experience.
Its called the Harvard Law Review and it is garbage. I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder working side by side with some Harvard Law grads until I subscribed for a year and read it. Mostly I had to teach my co workers the law they should have learned in school.
College has only ever been worth it if you were in something like engineering, medical, maybe legal, etc. It’s only ever been a participation ribbon for most of the degrees they give out.
That’s only been true rather recently, due to the fact that grades 4-12 no longer teach what they once did and which, sadly, many colleges and universities do NOT teach FACTUALLY, now.
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