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When did college turn from learning institutions into career factories?
by bluntfang 8y ago
When did college turn from learning institutions into career factories?
- bonniemuffin 8y agoWhen it got this expensive. It's hard to imagine a private university providing enough value as a "learning institution" to justify the cost to the student. Community college, on the other hand, is a wonderful learning institution--my local CC has continuing ed classes that are basically free for city residents, and anyone can learn nearly anything there, without going into life-altering debt.
- nemo44x 8y agoWhen we scaled it to the level it’s at today. A university education was at one time for academics and our best minds. There were plenty of jobs for everyone else. Those jobs are gone and a university degree has scaled to a level where many students wouldn’t be there under the original intent of the university. The purpose of the university has changed as our society has changed. But we are using the old, unscalable model to try and scale a university degree for the many.
- coredog64 8y agoI describe this as the last bastion of socially acceptable racism. PoC are less likely to get a college education, so requiring a degree helps to restrict the labor pool without bringing the EEOC down on the company.
- nemo44x 8y agoIt’s more a socio-economic thing than racist I think. It’s disproportionately affects you the lower on the wealth heiarchy you are.