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Personally, my college experience was mainly useful for discovering that my college experience wasn't going to be very useful for me.
(Mildly interesting: The author seems to be this woman. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/17/la-verne-seek...)
If people follow that, colleges might decide to lower the entry requirements and the amount of students who join this year might be similar to the usual amount. Perhaps a better approach would be to plan safe working conditions instead.
What are the practical, social negatives of this? Will in-demand schools hold a grudge on the thousands or more of students they would have liked to have in fall 2020 and skipped? "You weren't there for us in 2020 so we think you're better off elsewhere." Not that any university should behave this way; I'm asking if any quality ones would be.
(In principle, the rich ones like Harvard could, but they won't either. Falling enrollments just wouldn't look good.)
What are the practical, social negatives of this? Will in-demand schools hold a grudge on the thousands or more of students they would have liked to have in fall 2020 and skipped? "You weren't there for us in 2020 so we think you're better off elsewhere." Not that any university should behave this way; I'm asking if any quality ones would be.
I generally detest the large expense of universities given the difference between what they claim to offer and the actual value. That said, the options here seem to not be any better. Get a job? Fresh out of high school kidd are going to have a hard time finding gainful employment for awhile, especially in the hardest hit areas. Volunteer for a political campaign? Meh. That isn't much of a substitute, even if it has…
Get a job? Fresh out of high school kidd are going to have a hard time finding gainful employment In software I feel a strong guild/apprenticeship program could solve this.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get a job? Fresh out of high school kidd are going to have a hard time finding gainful employment In software I feel a strong guild/apprenticeship program could solve this.
The open source community serves as an ad hoc application of the apprenticeship / guild concept. I have some friends who don't have college degrees but have been hired due to their demonstrable and attested technical skill in serious FOSS projects
I think this is a great article, however, I think a more tempered approach may be to take online courses from a community college or similar to begin working on at least some gen eds. This frees you up to do some of these other things that article suggests, while still getting credits under your belt.
It's important to note that some colleges restrict the number of credits you can take/earn during the time between high school graduation and college matriculation. My alma mater, Purdue, permits incoming freshmen to take a gap year (but not purely due to Coronavirus [0]). During that year, the would-be freshmen may not take >=12 credit hours of courses or else their admission will be rescinded and the freshmen would…