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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by zamfi on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:42PM (#16444295)
> Lately, academics seem to be shifting their value proposition to the instillation of this undetectable unmeasurable X-factor. We can't see it, we can't prove that it exists, but it's there, and its value is absolutely incalculable.

Historically, college was a finishing school for the wealthy. This is not a new argument.

The new argument is that colleges should provide job training. Previously, this was the role of vocational or training schools.

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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by justin66 on Friday February 23, 2018 @12:20AM (#16444412)
> The new argument is that colleges should provide job training. Previously, this was the role of vocational or training schools.

And employers.

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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by thanksgiving on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:11AM (#16445149)
My economics professor used to insist that colleges don't prepare you for a job because if they did, then McDonald's University wouldn't exist.
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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by emodendroket on Friday February 23, 2018 @08:31AM (#16446168)
I don't necessarily disagree with the claim but that seems like a bizarre choice of evidence considering McDonald's is an employer hiring many people who did not attend college.
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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by raverbashing on Friday February 23, 2018 @09:15AM (#16446397)
Vocational or training schools don't graduate physicians, engineers, architects, lawyers, etc
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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by abakker on Friday February 23, 2018 @10:32AM (#16446895)
Neither do undergraduate colleges. Graduate programs are almost by definition vocational.
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