Comments on: Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years https://hechingerreport.org/momentum-builds-behind-a-way-to-lower-the-cost-of-college-a-degree-in-three-years/ Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:15:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris Cha https://hechingerreport.org/momentum-builds-behind-a-way-to-lower-the-cost-of-college-a-degree-in-three-years/comment-page-1/#comment-38239 Sun, 17 Apr 2022 03:50:41 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=86208#comment-38239 The Utica approach is the exact opposite of the approach colleges should be taking. Emphasize the major and minor classes and eliminate unnecessary general education classes. High school is supposed to prepare you for life. College should prepare you for your career.

]]> By: Matt https://hechingerreport.org/momentum-builds-behind-a-way-to-lower-the-cost-of-college-a-degree-in-three-years/comment-page-1/#comment-38186 Sat, 16 Apr 2022 10:27:38 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=86208#comment-38186 Maybe universities should consider offering 3 and 4 year acredited bachelor degree programs. 3 year Sydney Accord or 4 year Washington Accord. The students can decide what works best for them.

]]> By: Robert James https://hechingerreport.org/momentum-builds-behind-a-way-to-lower-the-cost-of-college-a-degree-in-three-years/comment-page-1/#comment-38180 Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:42:02 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=86208#comment-38180 Too much focus on college athletics. Spend that money on educating students.

]]> By: Jamaal https://hechingerreport.org/momentum-builds-behind-a-way-to-lower-the-cost-of-college-a-degree-in-three-years/comment-page-1/#comment-38177 Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:31:31 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=86208#comment-38177 There are NO profitable businesses around anymore which require any type of “degree”. Hopeful college-bound students are urged to get a marketable skill in trade schools since these schools will give sound training and won’t include the eating habits of grasshoppers (et al) found in the majority of today’s vaudeville colleges and universities. Add the fact that most colleges receive a kick-back for enrolling any student which shows that money and numbers is the only concern. With such a mentality and being greed-saturated, any sort of education supposedly offered is entirely pretentious and bogus. Trade school is the only way to learn a good skill.

]]> By: Pharmer1 https://hechingerreport.org/momentum-builds-behind-a-way-to-lower-the-cost-of-college-a-degree-in-three-years/comment-page-1/#comment-38133 Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:47:17 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=86208#comment-38133 We never expect things that have been happening in flyover country to be noticed in the media, and it has become amusing to us. For years, students have been bilked for low quality gen-ed classes. It’s time for this to stop altogether. https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/degreein3/plans.php

]]> By: CommonCents https://hechingerreport.org/momentum-builds-behind-a-way-to-lower-the-cost-of-college-a-degree-in-three-years/comment-page-1/#comment-38132 Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:38:31 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=86208#comment-38132 In fact, 25% of credits for most ‘4 year degrees’ are in classes which only serve to keep herds of tenured liberal professors employed and pump up the money machine which has become ‘higher’ education.

A typical engineering or technical degree could be completed in ~ 3 years at most public universities, except 30+ credit hours (one year) are often mandated for unrelated classes in order to fulfill dubious ‘humanities & social science’ requirements. i.e. To force-feed liberalism into otherwise practical and logically oriented degree candidates… while charging them another year for the privilege.

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