Comments on: Disinvest in higher education https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/05/disinvest-in-higher-education/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:34:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: C.J. https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/05/disinvest-in-higher-education/#comment-7713 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:47:04 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=37562#comment-7713 The fact that nearly half of college grads held jobs that didn;t require degrees reveals a bias inside most HR departments.
I was shocked a few years back when, while looking for a job, I discovered that one needed a bachelor’s degree to drive the Coke delivery trucks.
The college degree has become the basis for a new form of discrimination in this country.

]]> By: BobA https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/05/disinvest-in-higher-education/#comment-7712 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:42:14 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=37562#comment-7712 Colleges would do a lot better if they stop offering worthless degrees like ethnic studies or sociology and they wouldn’t have to lower their standards if they started putting an emphasis on science and engineering.

You can’t lower the standards on physics, chemistry, mathematics and course of that nature. Either you have the aptitude or you don’t. Those who don’t have the aptitude will drop out at the end of the first class.

Yes, I’m biased because my degree is in electrical engineering with a minor in applied mathematics which took long hours of studying and I didn’t have time to party my way through college or hang out with the losers in worthless degree programs.

By the way: many of the people I know with worthless degrees went into a union job where there’s a ceiling on how much you’re ever going to make.

]]> By: Ian Random https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/05/disinvest-in-higher-education/#comment-7711 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:39:48 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=37562#comment-7711 I would disagree about the community colleges since they actually teach useful skills. Now having Monterey State, UCSC and San Jose State so close might benefit from culling.

]]> By: Hondo https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/05/disinvest-in-higher-education/#comment-7710 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:05:17 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=37562#comment-7710 Put the public teachers unions outa biz by schooling online at the Khan academy. Almost everything is free online. Wadda we need the teachers unions for. Just some people to administer tests.
Hondo…

]]> By: Rex the Wonder Dog! https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/05/disinvest-in-higher-education/#comment-7709 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:39:36 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=37562#comment-7709 Indeed, all one has to look at is how much UC and CSU schools have lowered admissions standards over the years to enroll so many students who otherwise would not qualify.

Joseph, don’t know where you found this lie but the admissions standards are going UP, and have been, virtually Evey year at CSU and UC.

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