Comments on: From the convention: How can we fix higher education? http://hechingered.org/content/from-the-convention-how-can-we-fix-higher-education_5520/ By The Hechinger Report Mon, 13 May 2013 20:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lumina at the Conventions | Lumina Foundation http://hechingered.org/content/from-the-convention-how-can-we-fix-higher-education_5520/comment-page-1/#comment-1113 Lumina at the Conventions | Lumina Foundation Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:03:11 +0000 http://hechingered.org/?p=5520#comment-1113 [...] From the convention: How can we fix higher education? | Hechinger Report | Sept. 4, 2012 Categories: [...]

]]> By: Cindy Walsh http://hechingered.org/content/from-the-convention-how-can-we-fix-higher-education_5520/comment-page-1/#comment-1002 Cindy Walsh Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:16:08 +0000 http://hechingered.org/?p=5520#comment-1002 It is apparent to all that this push towards college degrees at a time when colleges are being turned into job training programs for corporate HR departments mirrors the Bush years of calling for everyone to pursue graduate degrees in order to get families to sign up for private loans all knew they couldn’t afford. As we watch these new vocational ‘degrees’ go out the door we hear already of the over-sized cost for undersized wages and the feeling of entrapment into a narrow education that leaves no room for growth.

Leave our community colleges alone. They are designed to place students on track for 4 year colleges with degrees that will give them a lifetime of job growth.

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