Accrediting Council for Independent College and Schools

[monchevy]

Corinthian was guilty of the same thing every school is.  They told the same lie that graduates make 1,000 times what non-grads make.  They were guilty of effective marketing.

Non-profits commit a different fraud.  They have the students and government pay $300,00 - 400,000 a year to tenured staff to teach a boner course or two a year instead of having a grad student do it for his tuition.  These are the guys that should be in jail.  Everyone is in it for the bucks.  The brick and mortars  just do a better job of camouflaging it.

That I agree with. Schools are in it for the money, no matter what their designation. Public or private, profit or non. The problem is when schools offer substandard education to anyone who can write a check, and promise them the world on top of it. There are so many people out there paying a fortune to schools that don't care what shoddy work they hand in. College is not for everyone. All schools should have academic standards. 

I work with someone who can't write, can't spell, and can barely express himself in English. Nor does he understand English very well. Yet he somehow has a degree from a CUNY university. How did he get through 4 years of classes without being taught English? How did he get passing grades on his assignments? Now mind you, I have nothing against people who speak English as a second language. His English is miles better than my Spanish!! But again, how do you get a degree from an American university without being able to read and write in English? 

I'm also in CC classes online with people whose discussion posts I can barely make sense of (most of them speak English as their native language). How did they graduate high school? How are they passing any classes at all?

The main point of this rant is that people are graduating from college woefully unprepared for the working world, simply because they paid for a degree. Yet folks like me, with no degree at all but decades of documented skills and experience, are put BELOW them in the pecking order when it comes to employment. They will get an interview, and my application won't even be seen. And this is what happens when you can buy a degree instead of earning it... whether it's from a non-profit, for-profit, public or private school.