If we give thousands a worthless degree and a big student loan to pay back, then we'll lead the world in the number of college graduates
Posted on 10/05/2010 2:35:57 AM PDT by Zakeet
As the White House stages a first-of-its-kind community college summit Tuesday, the Obama administration is proposing that stronger partnerships between two-year public colleges and big-name U.S. employers such as McDonald's and The Gap will help better match workers with jobs during the economic recovery and beyond.
Community college officials welcomed the new initiative, "Skills for America's Future."
But it's unclear whether the project will help meet Obama's education goals. Community colleges are short of cash, jammed with laid-off workers and students who in better times would attend four-year schools and spending heavily on remedial education for students ill-prepared for college.
For years, community colleges have worked with local employers to identify employment needs and train for them. But most efforts have stayed local, or been limited to pilot programs.
"These employers are well known and very important employers and this is being done at a national level," said Thomas Bailey, director of the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College. "It's not at the local, local level where people don't see it every much."
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Obama has set a goal of 5 million more community college graduates and certificate-holders by 2020, part of broader push for the U.S. to again lead the world in number of college graduates.
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If we give thousands a worthless degree and a big student loan to pay back, then we'll lead the world in the number of college graduates
Cheeseburger 101?
” .. Obama administration is proposing that stronger partnerships between two-year public colleges and big-name U.S. employers such as McDonald’s “
they just don’t get it, unlike the politician, young adults shouldn’t want to pay $100,000.00 for a $17,000.00 a year job
Gee, It's a good thing she got an education so she could work at the family rag factory.
What a pitiful article! This is nothing more than a payoff for teachers and so called academia.
LOL, that was so cruelly true!
And I am sure it is a fine viable and honorable company, but seriously!
President Obama’s Department of Education, where Secretary Arne Duncan appointed a longtime homosexual activist who was part of the sometimes-violent Act Up organization to head his “safe schools” office, now is proposing to force colleges and universities to submit to a political agenda, according to critics.
Under the proposed federal rule change, institutions of higher education “would be required to have a document of state approval … to operate an educational program, including programs leading to a degree or certificate,” explained an analysis by Shapri D. LoMaglio for the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.
“I think it is the greatest threat to academic freedom in our lifetime,” former Sen. Bill Armstrong, now president of Colorado Christian University, told WND. “But only if you love liberty.” ....
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=209589
Yes it does sound like a good thing:
“As a result, Safier said she expanded her distribution area and diversified her product line to include custom quilted covers and sound-absorption blankets that muffle things like loud band practices. She said the company has added five employees to grow to 23 employees and has experienced big sales growth”
what’s the point of a degree in humanities at a bad university? it’s useless.
Whatever happened to Trade Schools? Wasn’t this their “mission” to teach skills to people who were not “college material?”
Many two year community colleges are just that now days.
Communism, Marxism, Nazism, they are all taught in schools
Capitalism is lived and worked, essentialy, with some feminine clinical brief/debrief aspects of it.
The formers are based on tribalistic political hubris and single tribe world, while the latter remove or gentlemanize the tribalistic and replace it with high spirits and cooperation.
Zero needs not tell how the terms of partnership will be, because those who do capitalism know how to partner with worthy partners already. This is all “solutions” he brings about that were either given as ideas to him by capitalists and which are sadly being twisted around to bring the government grab your money nose into it.
Yeah, well, they have pedophiles your family center service factories in cities...
We all need to be taught, you know, how to not make or abuse children. These people are of death and they are like jackals, always looking for exciting the disgusting appetites of theirs and having those financed in the name of the “humane” and gay rights/love.
The business makes a useful product, don’t disparage it, she needs the education to deal with all the crap the government throws at a small business, they act as if it is a danger to the community and needs to be harassed out of existence.
I’m going to Prexy’s—I want a hamburger with a college education.
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