So....uh, should people stop bothering to apply to college next year or drop out now ?
What matters most is that they pursued their education and hopefully were successful at it. What they choose to do with it after the fact is not necessarily the same issue or point.
For many people today, as in the past, they are the first in their families to even go to college, and for many too, to have completed high school.
Guess it would depend on one's perspective. Does everyone think about "job" when they are going to college? I remember years ago working at Columbia University libraries where some of my co-workers had their day/night job at the library - not as "professional" staff either, but had 2-3 other careers going at the same time.
Maybe some people just are not used to doing both, i.e. work / education, for some it is the norm, it just takes much longer to get there.
cheers, KarenW
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
---Eleanor Roosevelt
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Irene Lopatovska
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On a similar(?)
note:
17 Million Kids Went To College And Became
Waitresses Or Flight Attendants
As more students obtain bachelor's degrees, the importance of
higher education is getting watered down. In fact, millions of graduates are settling for
underemployment.
Richard Vedder of The Chronicles of Higher
Education writes, "Some 17,000,000 Americans
with college
degrees are doing jobs that the Bureau
of Labor Statistics says require less than the skill levels associated with a
bachelor’s degree." These alumns are becoming flight
attendants, retail sales people, and even shampooers at hair
salons.
Read more at:
Irene Lopatovska, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor, Pratt
SILS
From: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010 8:27 PM
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Subject: Enrollment in Online Courses Increases
at the Highest Rate Ever
Please excuse any duplication - from the Chronicle /
kw
"Enrollment in Online Courses Increases at the Highest Rate
Ever"
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/enrollment-in-online-courses-increases-at\
-the-highest-rate-ever/28204
November
16, 2010, 12:01 am
By Travis Kaya
EXCERPTS BELOW:
"Despite
predictions that the growth of online education would begin to level
off,
colleges reported the highest-ever annual increase in online
enrollment—more
than 21 percent—last year, according to a report on an annual
survey of 2,600
higher-education institutions from the Sloan Consortium and the
Babson Survey
Research Group."
"In fall 2009, colleges—including public, nonprofit
private, and for-profit
private institutions—reported that one million more
students were enrolled in at
least one Web-based course, bringing the total
number of online students to 5.6
million. That unexpected increase—which
topped the previous year's 17-percent
rise—may have been helped by higher
demand for education in a rocky economy and
an uptick in the number of
colleges adopting online courses."
"Although the survey found sustained
interest in online courses across all
sectors, there was a spike in the
number of for-profit institutions—a 20-percent
increase over last year—that
said online education is critical to their
long-term strategies. However,
more public colleges than private
for-profits—74.9 percent versus 60.5
percent—say it's part of their long-term
plans."
...
EXCERPTS:
..."Administrators also continue to wrestle with the
question of quality in
online education. According to the survey report,
"Class Differences: Online
Education in the United States, 2010," 66 percent
of college administrators say
that online education is the same as or better
than face-to-face classes—a
slight decline from last year. Still, Ms. Allen
said it appears that more
faculty members are warming up to online education
as a quality alternative to
face-to-face learning and are finding new ways to
use the technology." ...
Excerpts from the article
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"No artist is ahead of his time.
He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time."--Martha
Graham
