[Diogenesis]

Fauxcahoness’ smoke signal today read:

“The SPICE must flow”.

[GOPJ]

Put a little differently, what is the value of a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies or sociology or any other fields that are not science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or business?

When free money flows and professors are needed for the influx of kids who can't read - the bottom of the barrel gets hired. And what can these new professors with IQ's around a hundred 'teach'? Grievance studies... how to hate. How to value 'feelings' over facts...

[grey_whiskers]

Fauxcahoness’ smoke signal today read:

“The SPICE must flow”.

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

Well, as an administrator, I would say that the primary problem is with the Faculty Associations' Collective Bargaining Agreements. These agreements are very costly because they include faculty that are tenured (or tenure-tracked), non-tenure tracked faculty, and civil service employees.

That said, I would submit to you, as a professor, chair of my department, former associate dean, and former associate provost at my university, a bachelor’s degree is not worth much (even from a university like Harvard).

In short, it really takes an advanced degree e.g., a Master’s or PhD degree that will make one’s career more viable. Further, students need to realize that it is the connections that they make at their respective college; which will in turn make them even more viable in the job marketplace.

To summarize, an undergraduate education can only act as an intensifier toward a more relevant course of experience; which is very expensive.

Sorry to say this, but that’s the way it is.