Also called a “semester”https://twitter.com/harjtaggar/status/733342977183997952 …
I used the word sabbatical purposefully to suggest a version of college should exist for people who are already working. Taking four years off for a degree usually isn't an option for them. If you have ideas for how that could work, it'd perhaps be more productive than snark.
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Ohhhh this makes it even worse. I’m not sure I taught even one student who didn’t have a job when at UWF. Close to half worked full time. I get wanting intensive classes - those are awesome. But UWF had partial semesters! UNC has Maymester! Most colleges have night/online/wkend.
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Any thoughts on how to solve for this?https://twitter.com/tcuthbertson13/status/1134028649651478528?s=21 …
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You mean like night classes and distance learning? Or maybe grad school? People already do this, just have to find the right program. I took a year off to do my M.A. class work.
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The difficulty is not the program it's being able to swing the expenses. Most people who do this either have to save up for a while to do it or incur debt because of the time out of work. what we need arr employers who are willing to support employees to do this.
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I read your article, and I think you fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of a computer science degree. It is not a single-track vocational program like a bootcamp. It is part of a larger interdisciplinary curriculum that teaches the underlying theories of the discipline
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The nuts and bolts of web development are learned on the job, typically (which is why bootcamp participants do better). CS students learn OO programming in languages like Java or C++. I'm sure by now there's Python and other web language courses
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~70% of US college students work, & ~25% of them work a full-time schedule & take a full-time college load. This info isn’t new, nor are edu programs that try to address it. New programs are welcome, but not PR that treats all this as some new discovery.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/at-universities-more-students-are-working-full-time/433245/ …
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