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2022-12-09 Economy

Companies ditch four-year degree requirement

[CampusReform] Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano appeared on Wilkow! to discuss how major U.S. companies are dropping their requirement to have four-year degrees.

Degrees used to be a ’golden ticket’ into corporate America, "but then the businesses and the companies realized that the students are not coming in prepared for our workforce," Giordano said.

Colleges have not given students the tools they need to succeed, he argued. "What’s the point of a college degree when you can give students technical skills to do certain jobs?"

Companies used to have apprenticeships, where people started at low-level positions and worked their way up, Andrew Wilkow, host of the program, mentioned. "Something is happening in colleges that are making the graduates no longer desirable."

Giordano responded, "It’s because education has lowered standards for the last 30 years. Students have simply been cycled through the system where they haven’t learned how to write effectively, they don’t learn how to communicate with other people."

He further explained that companies are taking it upon themselves to train workers, because the universities are unreliable, as they incentivize laziness.

"Companies are saying, ’We need workers that are actually going to work.’" Gordano concluded. "How are these students going to be able to manage in the real life if they can’t sit there and take a class that’s hard?"
The wages of stressing wokeness and proper groupthink rather than critical thinking skills and technical skills. I think most colleges will be cutting staff by 50% or going full bankrupt in 10-15 years.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-09 10:11|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 "but then the businesses and the companies realized that the students are not coming in prepared for our workforce,"

That was never the intent. It was to pad the wallets of the academics and build bureaucratic empires within. They were aided by Human Resource offices within companies who were too lazy to make sure the applicants were qualified for the job because of SCOTUS and simply defaulted to 'credentialing' handed out by an ever expanding industry of paper mills, formerly know as 'higher education'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-09 10:26|| 2022-12-09 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 No longer a useful filter.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-09 13:13|| 2022-12-09 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 provide assistance for trade school completion. None for college. Business can be learned in a trade school so can auto repair, a/c repair, barbering. Colleges should be for aesthetic learning and not gov't supported drivel. Persons should learn how to provide for themselves and be exposed to humanities,arts,poetry, etc as they want to pay for it.

Posted by irish rage boy 2022-12-09 15:25|| 2022-12-09 15:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Most state schools began as Agricultural and Mechanical institutions, in other words, practical application. They should return to the practical. Leave the 'soft' stuff to private colleges.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-09 16:23|| 2022-12-09 16:23|| Front Page Top

#5 I knew someone that couldnt get a job because he didnt have a degree. After the degree he couldnt get a job that paid what he thot he was worth. So he got a masters. Still couldnt get that wage. Figured he needed a PHD...never caught on that practical experience is what they were looking for.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2022-12-09 17:01|| 2022-12-09 17:01|| Front Page Top

#6 The classic CLEP ad

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-09 17:05|| 2022-12-09 17:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Sorry. Wrong link

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-09 17:06|| 2022-12-09 17:06|| Front Page Top

#8 CLEP ad

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-09 17:07|| 2022-12-09 17:07|| Front Page Top

#9 I know someone that has a Master's in finace, working toward's his PhD. He's a cop.
(He does this because they'll pay for school, and he's knows he won't be a cop forever.)

Posted by ed in texas 2022-12-09 17:34|| 2022-12-09 17:34|| Front Page Top

#10 At 44 years old I finished my CompSI degree. My pay immediately doubled. I could have taught every course I took. In my small country HS I took small engine repair, drafting and woodworking one semester a year.

Posted by Papa Cooky 2022-12-09 18:24|| 2022-12-09 18:24|| Front Page Top

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