I made my book club (full of lefty academics) read "The Case Against Education" and they were all *horrified* at the idea that the point of college was to get a better job. "the point of college is to BROADEN YOUR MIND and LEARN YOU HOW TO THINK and so on and so forth!"
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Totally agree with the fact of misalignment, but I don't think it's colleges fault. It's pretty unambiguous that getting a job was *not* their original purpose, and some of the best schools in terms of academic rigor are the ones that have resisted that trend most strongly.
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What we really need are excellent job-oriented schools *in addition* to excellent academic schools. There's no contradiction in having both! The problem is in conflating the two purposes in a single institution.
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It's the same scenario in India too. I had a lot of discussions with few colleges and nobody is really interested in getting students employed. Instead when a student does get a good job, they will show as if their education has helped him which is rarely the case.
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I have to disagree. Most people I know went to college NOT to get a job%: at 17 or 18, they didn’t have the foggiest idea what kind of career they’d like or would be talented at, so they postponed the decision by going to college.
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University should be focused on getting an education not a job.
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Not sure that institutions are convinced that this isn't their role, given that nearly all invest in career services. It's more that they respond to market needs at a glacial pace. (Could be due to: entrenched practices, lack of internal direction/industry partnerships, etc.)
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This was less of a problem when college was reasonably affordable. Difficult to make the financial investment required these days without considering the financial ROI.
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