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"Intellectually-qualified" means selective admission based on aptitude, prior work, and initiative. There are too many students in four-year colleges (public o
by daviddever23box 4y ago
"Intellectually-qualified" means selective admission based on aptitude, prior work, and initiative.
There are too many students in four-year colleges (public or private) who might be better suited for technical / trade schools, or, alternately, traditional career-based training (e.g., the older two-year, non-college nursing school model). This creates a scenario where negative achievement is built into the coursework of larger-sized classes, in order to reduce demand to those students who have the aptitude and initiative to achieve positive results in a smaller class size.
We need to remove the stigma associated with an, errm, associate degree. Nothing about academic credentialing matters at the corporate level when the actual work starts, hence the "or equivalent work experience" callout in most modern job postings.
And–at the opposite extreme–some highly-motivated persons might not benefit from post-secondary education at all, which is the recruitment challenge that many top schools face (i.e., the talent and achievement exceeds the formation and knowledge transfer that can be provided by the school at its price).
I cannot solve the problem of existing debt, for which capped loan forgiveness (as currently proposed) is a first attempt. How does one deal with evil in the world? Don't be evil, for starters.