Another Day, Another Snowflake Meltdown

Discussion in 'Politics' started by JamesL, Feb 3, 2017.

  1. fhl

    fhl

    The gubbermint wants minorities who have no money and can't read to go to college. It just ain't fair if they can't! It's racist!

    So they'll make sure that loans can be provided to Levi so he can go to college. It's like the Community Reinvestment Act for real estate loans to minorities.

    And since they can't read and SAT is close to zero, how are they going to get into any decent school?

    Enter for profit schools. To fulfill the dream the gubbermint tells everyone they're supposed to have. To go to college. The for profit schools fill a niche the gubbermint desperately wants there to be.

    Subprime Students: How For-Profit Universities Make a Killing By ...
    www.motherjones.com/politics/.../for-profit-university-subprime-student-poor-minori...
    Sep 23, 2014 - The students most affected—minorities and the poor—are often the ones ... For-profit colleges can be up to twice as expensive as Ivy League ...

    For-Profit Colleges Draw Minorities, Stir Murky Debate On Student ...
    www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/02/as-minority-enrollments-s_n_916541.html
    Aug 3, 2011 - At a June Senate hearing on high student debt levels at for-profit colleges, civil rights advocate Wade Henderson pointedly criticized what he ...

    For Profit Colleges, Students Of Color And The Debt Crisis No One ...
    https://thinkprogress.org/for-profit-colleges-students-of-color-and-the-debt-crisis-no-...
    Aug 31, 2015 - For-profit colleges, which tend to be more expensive than comparable ... risky private loans on the low-income, minority students they recruit.

    Maybe, just like the CRA, it's not necessarily the for profit schools that are all to blame.
    Maybe the students coming into them had no business in college in the first place and are only there because the black congressional caucus wants their fair share.
     
    #21     Feb 3, 2017
  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Sorry, gwb. That's just not true. The president of one of the divisions in our company has a UoPH degree. In my previous company, the head of sales had one, as well as the marketing director. I originally thought as you did, but real world evidence is to the contrary. No HR group threw them in the trash and they did quite well for themselves.
     
    #22     Feb 3, 2017
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Let me state that every company I know of in the Tech, Banking, Insurance, etc. sectors tosses resumes with degrees from for-profit colleges directly in the trash.

    Previously I have posted articles about "graduates" of these colleges not being able to find any jobs (nor repay their loans). Their job placement rate is dismal with under 10% of "graduates" finding work in their degree areas. There are also numerous articles quoting corporations stating individuals from these institutions are not hired. The only place I see these "graduates" are in contact centers such as ACS (now owned by Xerox) as agents. Otherwise they are not found in the corporate workspace.

    Will a For-Profit Degree Get You a Job?
    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/will-a-for-profit-degree-get-you-a-job/430758/

    "New data from the Education Department suggest that for-profit schools usually don't deliver on their promises to prepare students for successful careers. Of the more than 5,000 career programs for which the agency has recent earnings data, 72 percent offered by for-profits produce graduates who earn less than high school dropouts."
     
    #23     Feb 3, 2017
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  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Employers Shy Away From Online, For-Profit Grads
    http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/10/17/employers-shy-away-from-online-for-profit-graduates

    Going To A For-Profit College Won’t Help You Get Hired
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/18/for-profit-colleges-hired_n_5689598.html

    "A new study comparing graduates of for-profit colleges with those of cheaper community colleges found attending a school like the University of Phoenix or DeVry doesn’t impress employers much.

    In fact, researchers concluded, the students would be better off attending community colleges for a much smaller tuition price."
     
    #24     Feb 3, 2017
  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #25     Feb 3, 2017
  6. Hi TT.
    I have to agree with GWB here.
    I was just wondering- were the employees you know that have UofPH degrees already working at the company and then got their degrees?
    I have friends who work for the state and needed a "college degree" to move up in rank/title and went the Online for-profit route just to satisfy the requirement.
     
    #26     Feb 3, 2017
  7. I heard a radio ad where Arizona State University was touting its online degree program. They said the degree is no different than resident students get.

    Taxpayer supported educational benefits should be limited to the most cost effective alternatives. If you don't like that, pay for it yourself, snowflake.
     
    #27     Feb 3, 2017
  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #28     Feb 4, 2017
  9. Obama responded forcefully to islamist horror:

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    #29     Feb 4, 2017
  10. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Are people advocating that for-profit colleges are legitimate institutions of higher learning? Haha; is it to make the Sec. of Education nomination more palatable?

    Time to go long on this fraudsters I guess.

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    #30     Feb 4, 2017