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« on: November 28, 2012, 11:16:08 pm » |
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"Weeding out the joke schools" is easier written than done. The Independent Colleges accredidatio is a joke - one of my colleagues from the Palm Beach are told a group of us that a school had been approved to do surgical tech training. The "school" was in the back side of a ahir salon and the students practiced making stiches in bags of hair.....
This is, as the letter from Martinez hints, a nice little sound bite.
A Bachelor's degree is not just a starting point - for some, it is the ticket to a career, an entree into a career field. MS/MA and PhD are not guarantees of employability.
I think the way to make higher education more affordable will also remove the most barriered folks from the process. Most freshman and sophmore basic courses can be offered to high acheiving HS students through dual enrollment and on-line for others. If you can chip away at a degree that way (and require that the state colleges reduce tuition for those classes) the cost of a BS/BA can go down. Once the junior and senior level classes are broached by a student more specialized (expensive) instruction kicks in. A little old History major like me didn't cost FSU that much because all I needed was professors and classroom space. A STEM major requires a more highly skilled instructional staff, lab space and supplies. Health care majors cause even bigger capacity problems because they need clinical hours either in a facility or in a really good sim lab.
In short, this is a bigger problem to solve than Mr. Business Man Rick Scott makes out.
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