Posted on 02/19/2015 9:34:24 AM PST by Academiadotorg
Reports that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did not graduate from college have provoked a stream of broadsides, most of them misleading.
For starters, he left after three and a half years “in good standing,” according to all accounts. That would put him just a half year shy of graduation, with roughly five courses to make up.
In an era in which many collegians get their degrees in six years, it is easy to forget that, not long ago, four was the standard. “A little more than half of students who enter four-year colleges earn a bachelor’s degree from the same institution within six years,” David Glenn wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2010.
“The 2012 graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduate students who began their pursuit of a bachelor’s degree at a 4-year degree-granting institution in fall 2006 was 59 percent,” according to the National Center for Education Statistics. “That is, 59 percent of first-time, full-time students who began seeking a bachelor’s degree at a 4-year institution in fall 2006 completed the degree at that institution within 6 years.” The percentage of students who graduate in four years is closer to 30.
“We don’t have answers to parents who ask us if spending one-third of their income on a college education is worth it,” Sarah Martinez Tucker then at the U. S. Department of Education said in 2007.
Why doesn’t he just take the 5 courses and get the stupid degree to shut up the idiots.
So to answer the question, no.
So? He’s a few credits short of graduation. So what?
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Did Obama? Let’s compare their school records, OK?
The Republic has been managed by pointy-headed academics for long enough. Look where that’s gotten us.
Give me a non-graduate for once. I don’t think he could do any worse, no?
I don’t care. He’s obviously a competent, resourceful man,
diplonatic enough to deal with the unions and stubborn enough not to bend to their demands.
“Why doesn’t he just take the 5 courses and get the stupid degree to shut up the idiots.”
While he was there for 3 1/2 years, I think the contention is that he has quite a bit more than one semester to go (though to my knowledge, neither he nor anyone else has officially said how much more he had to complete). He was very heavily involved in campus politics and freely admits that school was not his priority at the time.
That said, he’s had 20 years. If he was truly interested in finishing, he could have done so long ago, no matter how much he has left to go.
“So? He’s a few credits short of graduation. So what?”
Makes him a far better choice in my book!
We’ve also seen no documentation attesting Obama graduated from anywhere.
Jimmy Carter and Woodrow Wilson were two of the most educated presidents in American history.
They were also among the worst presidents in American history.
We’re still paying the price, to this day, for Carter’s failure to support the Shah of Iran in his hour of need.
Also, Harry Truman, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington never went to college.
I don’t care in the least that Walker didn’t graduate from college, but I don’t see how this blog post contributes to the discussion at all.
Dude became the Governor of a State without a degree.
In my world that says that he is the smartest person in any room he enters.
I hope the Dems keep going down this path because it is yet another great example of how college is largely unnecessary and how Dems are out of touch.
“Why doesn’t he just take the 5 courses and get the stupid degree to shut up the idiots.”
It is idiotic for a man to waste his time on 5 courses for no reason just so he can symbolically apologize to his enemies for not having done it previously.
A college degree is worthless to a man who has already succeeded in his trade.
Joi Ito - Director of the MIT Media Lab - never got a diploma either. That’s as cutting edge as cutting edge gets.
The free publicity he’s receiving from this attack/revelation has been worth millions
A college degree is worthless to a man who has already succeeded in his trade.
As one of my professors at Georgia Tech said to the class back in 1966, "If and when you guys get out of here in four or five years with your degrees, you will not be engineers. You will be able to speak the language and will have proved that you can show up for class and can be taught. Once you get to your first real job, they will begin to teach you to be real engineers."
At the age of 50 I had an HR bureaucrat tell me I needed to go back to college and complete my degree before she could approve my being paid as a salaried employee rather than hourly. I had just been hired for a salaried position as a software programmer in a group within the engineering department. The man who hired me was a graduate of the Naval Academy and a former nuclear engineer on a ballistic missile sub. After I had worked for him for several years, one day he made the comment that I was a better engineer than half of the guys in the department who had their degrees. I was honored.
HR - "Bah Humbug!"
when you look at the mess college educated people made of the world, can this really be a bad thing?
Exactly. Quietly take the courses and finish.
Why doesn’t he just take the 5 courses and get the stupid degree to shut up the idiots.
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Because appeasing one’s enemies is not a good thing to do.
He doesn’t need it and they would just find another thing to whine about.
He doesn’t need it and a big SO WHAT? is a perfect response.
I like the way he turns it back on them.
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