This morning I’m thinking about whether or not I should take up the teaching mantle again.
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Makes me wonder if I am doomed to become a member of the unemployed because I have no college education. Not even sure what I would go to college to accomplish.
Very good post today, thank you for the thoughts!
Shawn
I don’t know, Shawn. It’s one of the questions.
FWIW, I just accepted the July teaching job. That will probably become my topic for July 🙂
If the Bachelor degrees are becoming so worthless, why are so many Vo-Techs moving to being “Community Colleges” and handing out 2-year Associate degrees?
Oh, and as for e-book sales: FOX had this, which struck me as something of a DUH!
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/14/force-behind-kindle-nook-ebook-sales-heaving-bosoms/
I have to suspect that e-book sales, within some limits, mirror paper editions, and have you seen how much of the rack in Wal-Mart is taken up with these junk romances? (Which, incidentally, have a nasty habit of showing that “no means no” is something of a lie… I’ve read a few hundred – I know what I’m talking about.)
The community colleges are getting it. I’m increasingly impressed with the caliber of the community college offerings. They’re very focused and provide the skills that people can use for their own needs.
The other thing that they’re doing is setting up the “proving grounds” for later degrees. The local one here has an arrangement with the university to fast track their Associate Degree students into the Bachelor’s program. For the students it means dealing with a smaller school, lower costs, and less distractions for the first two years and then moving up to the university in what would be their junior year. The cost saving is around 30-40% so it’s significant. Almost a BOGO sale by comparison to university fees.
This is a movement across the country and university reception to the idea of losing what amounts to the revenue from sophomores is not universally accepted. The upside for them is that by the time the undergrad attrition levels out, there’s a herd of entering juniors to take up the slack. For students, it’s a chance to find out if they really like their early choices before they’ve invested a lot in them.
On balance it works out for everybody I think.