I’m reading through the plans now hold up
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Ok TDLR; -Free Community College -Tuition Free 4 Year, for under $125,000 -Pell-Grants on Steroids -Freeze FASFA payments for under $25,000 -After $25,000, 5% discretionary income, no interest(?) discharges after 20 years. -Bankruptcy allowed for private loans >
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Private lenders get nerfed. -Physcial infrastructure investment and expanded funding for some other state schools and HBCUs. -Job Training, Work Study, Apprenticeships on steroids. -Community College funding also on steroids. So I’m ok with this. I guess.
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And I mean, given the possiblity that Republicans get vibe-checked in the Senate, this seems like it has a very real chance of going through. So. A white pill. Maybe?
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Replying to @Westphalite @Suddenly_a_Goat
I'm just really skeptical of this Most people would be better-served by a cheap and fast vocational program than a liberal arts program I've taught too many students to think there's some kind of universal value here--or rather, that students come in prepared to find that value
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Suddenly_a_Goat
The issue is that we’ve let students fuck around — unfortunately on their own dime. Now that this is on our dime, I think GenEd should be wiped out and students railroaded into a major if they want to apply. When I applied abroad I had to apply for my program right away.
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And while I think there is a top-heavy higher education vs. trades issue in place, I also think we’re all moving towards that place anyways so as long as companies continue to require degrees for everything. I think it’s on us to make them quality though.
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This is anecdotal on my end but when students can’t find jobs, a lot of it seems to be tied in with them having done nearly fuck all in college, alongside the lack of internships or basic networking. In my university, internships and networking are required to graduate.
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I think the problem facing us is a shit system that demands very little but charges very much on the one hand, and an unmotivated student who very little has been expected from.
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Replying to @Westphalite @Suddenly_a_Goat
What do you expect them to be like after twelve years of industrial public education where everything is preordered and initiative is punished? Twelve years of having to ask permission to take a piss and you think there's a chance they're going to be proactive at uni?
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to be clear I'm not mad at you even a bit, just about child prisons -_-
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