At the end of 2017, college is no longer a scalable solution.
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And I have extreme uneasiness in the fact--and I am accepting it as fact--that minorities need to go through a 4 year program to approach that level of success.
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I don't disagree with the theses around the privilege of white folks being given opportunities despite lack of domain degree. I do take issue with the fact that our conversation isn't about solving this issue.
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I cannot in good conscience advise anyone into a 4 year undergraduate program at this time, unless it begins with 2 years of community college. College is untenably expensive and I have seen too many lives ruined by student loans.
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And that's really at odds with the notion that minority candidates need a technical degree to access our industry's wealth.
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So what I'm saying is: this conversation is incomplete without an earnest discussion about hoe we can build apprenticeship models, recruiting models, and alternative ed models that genuinely support diversity. Because undergraduate education can't be the only solution.
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This is true for the U.S. College is free in many other countries. Some of those countries accept foriegn students for free.
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And the arbitrary scarcity of such programs.
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