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I was thinking the same thing. If degree is a meaningless checkbox for most jobs then someone will serve the market for meaningless degrees. There really shoul

I was thinking the same thing. If degree is a meaningless checkbox for most jobs then someone will serve the market for meaningless degrees. There really should be some kind of free on-line federal school for the underprivileged that would be like these online schools but with a decent curriculum and ethical testing and is accredited. The whole thing would probably cost annually what the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq cost in a few days. I'd rather talk to someone with a degree from the "US Federal Online" and know that he/she at least learned something than some random on-line diploma mill. Especially, if they put in two years at a community college.

robryan 16y ago
I guess the issue there is that the service could get the stigma of not counting towards a degree requirement. Employers see some random Lorenz university and think that it could possibly be a decent university vs the online school which they know all about. Given these guys are already enacting a check box degree requirement they probably would be irrational about something like this. I'm glad that the programming field is in general a lot better about this, recognizing that the degree isn't the be all and end all of an applicants ability to do a job.
TomOfTTB 16y ago
What you're talking about essentially exists in the form of Western Governors University. It was a project started by the Governors of the 19 western states to supply accredited online degrees to the under privileged (as a new Governor is elected to one of the member states s/he becomes a member of the board of trustees) Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University It isn't free but the cost is something like $2,000 for every 6 month period and you can take as many classes as you can handle in that time frame.
- drzaiusapelord 16y ago
  Oh wow, thanks for the info!

robryan 16y ago

I guess the issue there is that the service could get the stigma of not counting towards a degree requirement. Employers see some random Lorenz university and think that it could possibly be a decent university vs the online school which they know all about. Given these guys are already enacting a check box degree requirement they probably would be irrational about something like this. I'm glad that the programming field is in general a lot better about this, recognizing that the degree isn't the be all and end all of an applicants ability to do a job.

TomOfTTB 16y ago

What you're talking about essentially exists in the form of Western Governors University. It was a project started by the Governors of the 19 western states to supply accredited online degrees to the under privileged (as a new Governor is elected to one of the member states s/he becomes a member of the board of trustees) Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University It isn't free but the cost is something like $2,000 for every 6 month period and you can take as many classes as you can handle in that time frame.

drzaiusapelord 16y ago
Oh wow, thanks for the info!