http://www.petapixel.com/2011/09/02/us-gov-sues-the-art-institutes-for-11-billion-fraud/ This makes me so happy, first step in an art degree actually being worth something. stop passing kids just to get next years tuition. if you goto med school and you dont know the parts of the human body you dont get a degree, if you…
TortillaChips, The lawsuit is about accepting students for the purpose of collecting government financial aid. The evidence are both reasons you stated.
Somalia is a nice change of pace, as well. Back on topic, passing students along just to get huge tuition windfalls is not exclusive to for-profit colleges. This is a nationwide problem that permeates our entire higher education system. I'm glad to hear about this, but the cultures of "everyone has to go to college and…
I can see what you are insinuating there and who you are trying to make a comparison with! i will just say this, every good artist needs to be able to criticize their own work to get better and every patriotic US citizen needs to be able to criticize their own government. ps. those trillions of dollars goes to the pockets…
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Putting the corp behind Ai on the side for now, and all the bullcrap that goes on with that place (I got horror stories you wouldn't believe), it's still a school. And there are still teachers that really do want to teach that go there. And even... gasp... students that want to…
I'd also like to mention that when my dad died, Sallie Mae wiped out his share of my college debt. Between scholarships and that I went for $10k. Damn you US government!
We were sitting around talking with the head of the art department at my school. He joked "They say 90% of our graduates have jobs upon graduation. What they don't tell you is they mean at Burger King!" No one laughed.
Everything you said is spot on, and I have experienced it both first and second hand, and I went to a state univ. There is a great deal of pressure leveled on educators to pass students. Basically, the only professors who can grade as they see fit are those with tenure.
They do, but like you mention it is EXTREMELY under-valued, as high school these days seem to be meant more to churn out teens ready to become worker bees rather than creative individuals. At my high school our required career guidance was little more than another standardized test.