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Re:A new trade and liberal arts school: “College of St. Jose... by IncRnd on Sunday July 10, 2022 @11:05PM (#32051732)
> My understanding of this new college is that it's aimed at solving the perceived problem of four-year Catholic liberal arts schools, namely that they graduate a lot of young adults with the same (or roughly the same) degrees, but without an obvious career path laid out for them.

The top of the home page states their aim, "Learn a trade,earn a degree, and graduate without crippling debt. The College of St. Joseph the Worker forms students into effective and committed members of their communities by teaching them the Catholic intellectual tradition while training them in skilled and dignified labor. We teach our students to think, but also to pray, to love, and to build."

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Re:A new trade and liberal arts school: “College of St. Jose... by tptacek on Sunday July 10, 2022 @11:54PM (#32051994)
That's their stated goal, but their staffing suggests a truer revealed goal, which is political rather than practical: they aren't accredited to offer a degree, the degree they offer isn't valuable in the trades they hope to serve, they don't have instructors with credentials in the trades, and they cost more than a community college. What they do have is a founder and coterie of teaching fellows that share a peculiar ideology.

By way of example: "electrician" is one of their 5 trades, and they have no listed electrician faculty.

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