Walmart to Help Associates Get College Degrees

[sanantone]

You all totally misunderstood the point of my comments. My comments are made in the context of this thread. A few of you have touted this as a way for your average high school graduate to get a degree for free, but this really isn't an appealing option for your average high school graduate. This is an option for people who would have ended up at Walmart regardless of the education benefit, and most of them will likely be non-traditional college students.

I know how tuition reimbursement works at most companies, so I didn't need that explained. Similar to Walmart, most companies' education benefits are not ideal for your average kid coming out of high school.

But, you have all unintentionally made an argument that goes against your typical views. There has yet to be a private sector solution for the widespread issue of high tuition and growing student loan debt, and we'll likely never see one. There is no incentive for the private sector to help solve this issue in any meaningful way.

I don't really get the whole "Walmart degree" thing. If you earn a BSBA from UF, then you have a BSBA from UF. But, just because every business has business needs (that's kind of a given) it doesn't mean that the market needs a half a million new BSBAs every year. There is evidence that it doesn't.