A diploma from a prestigious university only means you can go through better gilded doors. After that, your measure is how much money you helped your employer make.
After a while, the metric becomes what you've done (in the past) to prove your worth.
If MOOCs are taken seriously, and can compete with prestigious diplomas when it comes to that first job, then you've got a game changer.
Sadly, the only way to make a business (again, pains me to say that) pay attention is if they lose money.
You go to Oxbridge/ivy league universities for the contacts not just the piece of paper
Those contacts you make in big-name schools are mostly wishful thinking. Those places don't train you to be a friend. They train you to be ruthless, efficient "winners".
Make your FU money and bail. Nietzsche explained why;
> He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
p.s. a white collar mcjob makes more than an adjunct "professor".
Going to eaton then oxford and the bullingdon club opens far more doors look at the UK Cabinet.
Do you think Pres Obahma would he be where he is today without going to Harvard and had just a community organizer with just a local Chicago high school education.
He won't rock the boat. He won't go JFK on people and cause a ruckus.
Do you really believe an upper-middle-class lawyer can breeze past the multi-billionaires?
Look at what's happening in Detroit. Who the scapegoat is for the downfall of an entire city.
Best way is to force them to adapt. MOOCs seem to be the thing that will make education assess its business practices.
I wish I didn't have to refer to education as a business, but alas, the idea that you can fine-tune any organization through business cases has been perpetuated.