Reply #59: My last boss got accepted to U of P

[supernova]

This is someone who is maybe 10 years younger than me, so maybe late 30s, just 40.

She came to work all excited one day. "I got accepted to Grad School!"

Oh, that's great, says I. What school? I was thinking she was going to say Duke, Carolina, NC State, or NCCU. There is no dearth of places to go to grad school around here.

'University of Phoenix!"

:wow:

I said well, Congratulations. And you won't have to worry abound rushing out of here to go to class. But, this is someone who finished engineering school, so I was sort of taken aback by the seeming step backwards.

If that sounds biased, I suppose it is.

There is a problem with higher ed and the concentration on cashing tuition checks and passing people, regardless of the quality of curriculum or work involved. But places like UP don't help. They get away with it because businesses will pay for tuition for these places. My former boss is getting a tuition benefit from our employer. Business, just as in it's fancy accounting practices that don't make real money is also not into real learning either.