{"id":38759,"date":"2017-05-04T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=38759"},"modified":"2017-05-04T11:49:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:49:15","slug":"state-university-recruiter-sell-worthless-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/state-university-recruiter-sell-worthless-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"State University recruiter: \u201cI sell worthless degrees\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/uselessdegree.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38763\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/uselessdegree.jpeg\" alt=\"uselessdegree\" width=\"340\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/uselessdegree.jpeg 340w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/uselessdegree-250x197.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>\u201cAn Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Plato<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Studying higher education as much as I do, I have no choice but to question what I am doing. I see the massively rising student debt, I see the Poo Bahs raking in ever more money, <a href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/government-regulations-killing-education-part-3\/\">see them crying about the lack of money in the system<\/a>\u2026and I ask myself if I can perform honorable work in a system run by so many (not all) dishonorable people.<\/p>\n<p>I believe I can, for now, though I concede in the past I\u2019ve worked for schools where I could not say as much. When I knew wasn\u2019t doing honorable work, I still did the best I can, while seeking to move on.<\/p>\n<p>The title above, then, isn\u2019t from me, but from someone who, finally, is starting to see that there may be a problem with higher education today. The title to his article is not much different from my fake quote:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/2017\/mar\/24\/i-sell-degrees-but-dont-tell-students-they-might-be-worthless?CMP=new_1194&amp;CMP=\"><strong>I sell degrees \u2013 but don&#8217;t tell students they might be worthless<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does this guy sleep at night? I mean, it\u2019s one thing to sell terrible hamburgers or the like, but a college degree represents a major commitment, and the tales of people who\u2019ve been destroyed by \u201cthe college experience\u201d are legion\u2026how does this guy sleep at night, I again ask?<\/p>\n<p><em>But the devil that sits on my shoulder is whispering \u201cfees and loans, fees and loans\u201d. Students who borrow the full whack to cover their tuition and living costs will end up \u00a345,000 in debt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As is often the case, I\u2019m looking at things in the UK\u2026or some reason, the media in the US just ain\u2019t got the time to look at what we\u2019re doing in higher education here. I\u2019ve been following higher ed \u201cacross the pond\u201d and basically the UK is adapting to the US model. They\u2019re only a few years behind\u2026I can\u2019t help but worry for the youth over there, they\u2019re about to get some hard core raking over the coals soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifs.org.uk\/publications\/7165\"><em>Independent predictions<\/em><\/a><em> estimate that only 5% will repay their loans in full and nearly three quarters won\u2019t. The loans get written off after 30 years (although if they\u2019re <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/feb\/06\/universities-minister-announces-sale-of-student-loan-book\"><em>sold to private investors<\/em><\/a><em>, this might change), but they\u2019ll be paying monthly until then, and struggling to deal with <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifs.org.uk\/uploads\/Presentations\/Understanding%20the%20recession_230915\/SMachin.pdf\"><em>low wage growth<\/em><\/a><em> [pdf] and <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/england.shelter.org.uk\/campaigns_\/building_more_affordable_homes_2\/rent_trap\/rising_rents\"><em>rising rents<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Again, the UK is early in the game. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/04\/15\/study-over-27-of-student-loans-are-in-default\/\">Around 27% of student loans in the US is in default, but that\u2019s realistically an under-estimate<\/a>. The huge default rate is mostly covered up because there are so many ways to put off paying the loans. I see people in their 40s and older \u201cgoing back to school\u201d because they haven\u2019t paid off their loans from when they were 18. You don\u2019t have to make payments if you\u2019re in college, you see.<\/p>\n<p>It really is nuts: the first bout of college didn\u2019t pay off and left the victim with debts. Why would the second round be any better? But that\u2019s why the default rate is \u201conly\u201d 27%.<\/p>\n<p><em>They might get middle-class jobs but not necessarily middle-class lifestyles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the problem I keep coming to, myself. We\u2019re indebting these students so deeply for \u201chigh paying jobs.\u201d Most students won\u2019t get those jobs, that\u2019s just the facts. The students that get the jobs, still aren\u2019t being helped by their college education, as the loan payments eat up the \u201chigher pay\u201d the job provides.<\/p>\n<p>This is not honorable. We should not be doing this, in general.<\/p>\n<p>How does this guy sleep at night? Not so soundly, I reckon:<\/p>\n<p><em>All of this circulates like sharks in my head when I speak to prospective students. It\u2019s like I\u2019m trying to sell a car that could well turn out to have a faulty engine.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next question, of course, is <em>why<\/em> does he do this?<\/p>\n<p><em>Emails from management regularly remind us that recruitment numbers aren\u2019t as healthy as they could be,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And this was the problem I had when I was at a skeezy school. \u201cRecruitment numbers,\u201d goodness I remember having to go to meeting after meeting about this. I\u2019ll help the guy out with some advice: recruitment numbers are <em>never<\/em> good enough for admin.<\/p>\n<p>My skeezy school set a record for growth for one year, across the country. Did admin say \u201cok, now we can focus on quality\u201d? Heck no, the only thing admin ever wants is MOAR, and so I still went to mandatory meetings to learn the next plan to sacrifice quality in return for ever more quantity (more accurately, ever more checks from students).<\/p>\n<p>The plague destroying (much of) high ed in the US has infected the UK: the schools have come under the control of people who are not educators. I remember recruiting, years ago, much like this guy. Professors don\u2019t do that much anymore in the US, and it\u2019s taken over by admin here.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the takeover is the corporate-speak, and the professor here knows what he\u2019s hearing may as well be native language of demons:<\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019re encouraged to improve our \u201cconversion rate\u201d \u2013 the percentage of people who come to an open day and then actually study with us. I have no idea how (and they don\u2019t tell us), but this is developing into our collective sales target.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Conversion rates, sales targets, retention rates, ROI per students, full time enrollment\u2026these are the things you hear all the time at a school that has lost its way. There\u2019s no discussion of helping students, job placement, improving education, or anything that won\u2019t directly add to the administrative salary.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned before, recruiting isn\u2019t done so much by faculty in the US, admin took it over. The professor explains why:<\/p>\n<p><em>If I was a well-informed and calculating student, I\u2019d study elsewhere, but my job partly depends on persuading people not to. I just hope (for my sake, not theirs) that our prospective applicants can\u2019t see it in my eyes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The professor is an educator, a scholar\u2026he\u2019ll ask himself if he\u2019s doing honorable work, and will understand when the answer is \u201cno.\u201d That makes it hard for him to hurt other human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the need for administrators to take over recruiting. Admin will never examine if what they are doing is honorable work, because that might lead to the poor kid coming right out of high school having a chance of avoiding a lifetime of debt slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Admin can\u2019t allow that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorconfess.blogspot.com\/\">www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAn Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.\u201d &#8211;Plato Studying higher education as much as I do, I have no choice but to question what I am doing. 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