back in 2004 I ran into an old Canadian colleague about a month after I'd arrived in NYC how do you like it? he asked good, I said have you noticed how fixated everyone is on what college you went to? he asked they are? I said (1/2)
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Journalists usually know if their peers went to Ryerson or Carleton tho
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Right, it’s quite program-specific in Canada — sports broadcasters know who went to Ryerson or Western MIT; lots of i-bankers know who else went to Ivey; political staffers know who went to Munk MPP, etc.
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I taught at Bowdoin College, one of the US selective liberal arts colleges, from 1995 to last year, after coming out of UPEI and UCalgary. This is dead on. The emphasis on where you went to college is weird, and unremitting.
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It happens in large part because higher ed is so much more class-stratified in the USA than in Canada, with a much larger number and more hierarchical system of higher ed institutions per capita. That college bumper sticker on your Volvo is a bid for class status.
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