One slight correction: The degree is value added; the product is the college-certified member of the workforce. Don't worry about how this degree translates into "job-readiness" for whatever role or what actual knowledge-added it represents, the pressure from state legislatures is on colleges to produce degrees that are in turn advertised as part of the process of luring employers to a state.
How can we subsidize colleges? As part of the many subsidies we offer corporations, of course.
But that's also where the university lost its way, not just running on the business model -- and therefore valuing output in quantity without quality control because publish or perish (publish or Parish at the Jesuit schools) plus directives not to consider quality, only quantity as part of the tenure and promotion process -- but accepting the outsourcing of job training and selling itself to corporate R&D with proprietary research undertaken with public funding. We're not cultivating citizens, much less individuals, but that's rarely the subject of these critiques.
This is excellent. Sharing to Gulf Coast Freethinkers.
Nice essay as always, Keith.
One slight correction: The degree is value added; the product is the college-certified member of the workforce. Don't worry about how this degree translates into "job-readiness" for whatever role or what actual knowledge-added it represents, the pressure from state legislatures is on colleges to produce degrees that are in turn advertised as part of the process of luring employers to a state.
How can we subsidize colleges? As part of the many subsidies we offer corporations, of course.
But that's also where the university lost its way, not just running on the business model -- and therefore valuing output in quantity without quality control because publish or perish (publish or Parish at the Jesuit schools) plus directives not to consider quality, only quantity as part of the tenure and promotion process -- but accepting the outsourcing of job training and selling itself to corporate R&D with proprietary research undertaken with public funding. We're not cultivating citizens, much less individuals, but that's rarely the subject of these critiques.