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College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one.

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Post by Turtleneck 2016-01-18, 22:38



The results of this kind of thinking are pernicious. Governors and legislators, as well as the media, treat colleges as purveyors of goods, students as consumers and degrees as products. Students get the message. If colleges are responsible for outcomes, then students can feel entitled to classes that do not push them too hard, to high grades and to material that does not challenge their assumptions or make them uncomfortable. Hence colleges too often cater to student demands for trigger warnings, “safe rooms,” and canceled commencement speakers. When rating colleges, as everyone from the president to weekly magazines insist on doing nowadays, people use performance measures such as graduation rates and time to degree as though those figures depended entirely upon the colleges and not at all upon the students.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/09/college-is-not-a-commodity-stop-treating-it-like-one/
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Post by xsanguine 2016-01-18, 22:45

This is why I majored in Women's Studies. I wanted a degree that would prepare me for the real world.

College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. 3742235224
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Post by DWags 2016-01-18, 22:59

True this.
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Post by Turtleneck 2016-01-18, 23:02

xsanguine wrote:This is why I majored in Women's Studies. I wanted a degree that would prepare me for the real world.

College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. 3742235224

I do not understand your point. I'm not sure you read the article.
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Post by xsanguine 2016-01-18, 23:03

Turtleneck wrote:
xsanguine wrote:This is why I majored in Women's Studies. I wanted a degree that would prepare me for the real world.

College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. 3742235224

I do not understand your point. I'm not sure you read the article.

It has nothing to do with it. Don't act surprised.
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Post by Travis of the Cosmos 2016-01-18, 23:03

Can someone define pernicious for me? My college degrees didn't cover that.


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Post by Son of Sparta 2016-01-18, 23:05

xsanguine wrote:This is why I majored in Women's Studies. I wanted a degree that would prepare me for the real world.

College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. 3742235224

I though that was so you could meet dames...
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Post by Turtleneck 2016-01-18, 23:06

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:Can someone define pernicious for me? My college degrees didn't over that.

Thank you for your succinct summary of the article. I think your post is exactly what the author is trying to say.
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Post by xsanguine 2016-01-18, 23:06

Son of Sparta wrote:
xsanguine wrote:This is why I majored in Women's Studies. I wanted a degree that would prepare me for the real world.

College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. 3742235224

I though that was so you could meet dames...

I can't say that during an interview, though...
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Post by DWags 2016-01-18, 23:06

Son of Sparta wrote:
xsanguine wrote:This is why I majored in Women's Studies. I wanted a degree that would prepare me for the real world.

College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. 3742235224

In my day, the women who took those classes were mostly on the other team.

I though that was so you could meet dames...
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Post by xsanguine 2016-01-19, 00:08

I'm sorry I didn't take your thread srsly and just typed the first thing that popped in my head, TN.

This is me on tSwill...
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So.... How do you think we stop the millenials from turning college into their coddle-me party?
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Post by Turtleneck 2016-01-19, 00:22

xsanguine wrote:I'm sorry I didn't take your thread srsly and just typed the first thing that popped in my head, TN.

This is me on tSwill...
College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. Computing

So.... How do you think we stop the millenials from turning college into their coddle-me party?

You don't have to apologize. There are no apologies on tSwill because there are no apologies in war.
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Post by xsanguine 2016-01-19, 00:30

Turtleneck wrote:
xsanguine wrote:I'm sorry I didn't take your thread srsly and just typed the first thing that popped in my head, TN.

This is me on tSwill...
College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. Computing

So.... How do you think we stop the millenials from turning college into their coddle-me party?

You don't have to apologize. There are no apologies on tSwill because there are no apologies in war.

No wonder the Japanese were destined to lose.
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Post by Blanch32 2016-01-19, 08:11

Well stop making college cost more than a first home and I think the author may have a point. Sorry, but when you overcharge people expect a premium experience idiots
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Post by Turtleneck 2016-01-19, 08:26

Blanch misses the point. No surprise.
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Post by Robert J Sakimano 2016-01-19, 08:34

my wife and I have had similar conversations - it's actually an ongoing conversation - with our daughter (sorry For bin), relative to what she expects from higher education, what their obligations are and the trends associated with each.

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