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2. It was a sensible Obama-era initiative to aid students that was discontinued during the trump...
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 08:32 AM
Sep 2023

discontinued. It's very telling IMO of what the trump admin was all about. I know whereof I speak as I very briefly in the early '00s served as an adjunct prof at a for-profit college after a 35-year career in publication design/journalism. I soon begin to understand what their raison d'être/scam is.

They exist basically to fool students, very often working adults trying to better their situations by getting a college degree, to take out government loans to get degrees (of questionable accreditation), if the students finish the program at all, the degrees are mostly worthless and not recognized by hiring directors, resulting in the students having substantial debt with very little to show for it.

I taught my students what I learned from my career and they got worthwhile portfolio pieces and graphics program knowledge from my classes, but I soon found I didn't want to be associated with such an institution and found another job as soon as I could and got the hell out of there.

Of course here are fields/areas of instruction offered at traditional colleges that can result in low-paying jobs but students who choose those fields do so because it's their area of interest, but there is no question of those institutions accreditation and the legitimacy of their degrees.

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