Posted on 06/14/2014 4:17:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
Someone needs to check their premise.
Around here, welders and oilfield truck drivers out earn the college grads. Kids right out of high school are making $150k/yr. Most degrees are worthless. Liberal arts? I’m not hiring.
It all comes back to what you major in. In general, people who get job and careers skills do well. Examples are those who major in accounting, nursing, engineering.
People who major in fields such as women’s studies are not getting job or career credentials in the process. There is simply no demand in the job markets for women’s studies majors.
It’s also the result of a government subsidized education system, By subsidizing the education system, it has made on-the-job training more expensive by comparison and, consequently, the business community will not train most of it’s workers. Most jobs don’t really need two or four year degrees to do their jobs, if employees can get their training while working.
I cannot argue that this is what college has turned into, i.e., job training. Once upon a time the purpose of college was to educate people.
Short and sweet, they’re are too many college graduates out there with degrees in non-marketable skills who, by all rights, have the mental ability to do only those jobs we are bringing in illegal aliens to do. Higher education IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY. Someone with a degree in Angry French, Lesbian Women Studies/Basketweaving isn’t something employers are really looking for. Colleges and Universities should be prohibited from offering these types of degrees. If it isn’t a marketable skill, these schools shouldn’t be allowed to waste money teaching this garbage. It’s time for “comprehensive college and university reform”. Tuition rates are “skyrocketing” to teach this useless garbage and no one is doing anything about it.
If someone can’t get an education without college, they won’t get one with college either.
That's where the blame lies.
Yeah, but if they pair that Women’s Studies degree with a minor in Sub-Saharan Homoerotic Literature and Dance, they’ve got a very powerful combination. :=)
The best education for the money is from the School of Hard Knocks.
The one time I have agreed with Obama. Of course, he had to apologize because the liberals went nuts. LOL
“Here’s what he said: “[A] lot of young people no longer see the trades and skilled manufacturing as a viable career. But I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree. Now, nothing wrong with an art history degree — I love art history. So I don’t want to get a bunch of emails from everybody. I’m just saying you can make a really good living and have a great career without getting a four-year college education as long as you get the skills and the training that you need.”
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/31/obama-becomes-latest-politician-criticize-liberal-arts-discipline#ixzz34f2MLlGb
Inside Higher Ed
Colleges Soak Poor Students to Funnel Aid to Rich
U.S. colleges such as Boston University are using financial aid to lure rich students while shortchanging the poor, forcing those most in need to take on heavy debt, a report found.
Almost two-thirds of private institutions require students from families making $30,000 or less annually to pay more than $15,000 a year, according to the report released today by the Washington-based New America Foundation.
The research analyzing U.S. Education Department data for the 2010-2011 school year undercuts the claims of many wealthy colleges that financial-aid practices make their institutions affordable, said Stephen Burd, the reports author. He singled out schools — including Boston University and George Washington University — that appear especially pricey for poor families.
Colleges are always saying how committed they are to admitting low-income students — that they are all about equality, Burd said in a phone interview. This data shows theres been a dramatic shift. The pursuit of prestige and revenue has led them to focus more on high-income students.
At the end of 5, 6 or more of fun filled years at party central, a significant number of students are awarded a bachelors degree of entitlement which employers are failing to honor.
Wish I still had the picture of the OW student lamenting the fact that she had $90,000 student debt and no employer would “give” her a job in her course of study .... Hispanic gay, lesbian, and transgender studies.
The new victim class, expecting employers to bow to their masters: the bureaucrat parents of those victims.
That's an understatement.
In fact if someone came to me looking for a job and had THAT on their resume, it would be a huge red flag to keep this person far, FAR away from my business.
I wouldn't even hire them as a janitor.
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