News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:University of California launches $250M fund for student ... by superuser2 on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:03AM (#10749654)
The lofty ideal is still alive and kicking at Berkeley's peers on the Top 20 lists. College as a box to check off disinterestedly is more the purview of a mediocre football-obsessed and frat-oriented institution than an intellectual beacon like Berkeley.
Re:University of California launches $250M fund for student ... by lint_roller on Thursday December 17, 2015 @08:35AM (#10751340)
You picked an outlier top university frequented by the offspring of the upper middle class and wealthy. My point stands -- the notion is elitist and has no hope of reflecting the reality of most Americans' relationship with higher education.
Re:University of California launches $250M fund for student ... by superuser2 on Thursday December 17, 2015 @11:17AM (#10752315)
I picked Berkeley because it's what TFA is about, and it's ridiculous that higher education should be one-size-fits-all. Such a move might be less disturbing, even welcome, from an institution which is already a job training center. It's still problematic that it's happening at Berkeley.