I assumed he was attracted by the artificially high placement rates created buy paying temp agencies to employ recent graduates. While I was shocked by this practice but it goes to show that institutions will find ways to achieve by whatever metric is used to measure success and many times what is measured is what sells (or what is easy to measure).
If I could go back in time I would stop colleges and universities from ever promoting better jobs and higher wages as an outcome (no matter how true it is and was) it was the beginning of the commodification of education. Doug Doug Peterson, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology The University of South Dakota Vermillion SD 57069 605.677.5295 ________________________________________ From: Annette Taylor [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 9:19 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE:[tips] Corinthian Colleges Closed Today -- Forever Interesting part of the article: interview with a student 3 classes away from graduation. Lives in the OC, socal. Educational goal: associate's degree in criminal justice. What kind of associate's degree is he buying for the high tuition rates that he cannot get a community college? A quick perusal of the internet showed dozens and dozens of programs in criminal justice at community college in California. It must have been some heck of a sales job that Corinthian was able to put on people. Thank goodness it will no longer prey on people who are not smart enough to figure out that they don't need to pay top dollar, financed heavily with student loans, to buy their education in socal--or probably anywhere! They can just go to their local community college. But it does raise the larger question of how and why would people be persuaded to pursue an AA or AS degree at such a high priced institution? The California Community Colleges advertise all the time on radio about how affordable it is, how widespread it is, how anyone (I hope within reason) can be admitted...so the persuasion here must have been something truly extraordinary! Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 [email protected] Subject: Corinthian Colleges Closed Today -- Forever From: "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:58:15 -0400 X-Message-Number: 2 The for-profit Corithinian Colleges (which consists of several colleges, both physical and online) closed down operations today. For one source on this, see the link to the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-corinthian-shutdown-20150427-story.html#page=1 and HuffPo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/26/corinthian-colleges-closing_n_7147380.html Thousands of students are affected as well as faculty and staff. One wonders what the long-term consequences will be. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=12991.6a54289b29ceb58cb7609cc50e0dc1c8&n=T&l=tips&o=44370 or send a blank email to leave-44370-12991.6a54289b29ceb58cb7609cc50e0dc...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=44374 or send a blank email to leave-44374-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
