[FRIAM] "higher" education

[Gary Schiltz]

I don't know if my attitudes have an objective basis, or if I am just
envious of folks whose degrees are from Ivy League schools. My father had
only a sixth grade education and my mother eighth grade, and Dad never
earned over two dollars an hour, so an expensive University was out of the
question. So I went to Kansas State University in the 1970s and early 1980s
and got what I thought was an adequate education (BS in Biology and MS in
Computer Science) spread out over nearly ten years. In-state tuition, no
doubt subsidized by the State of Kansas, was between $500 and $1000 per
semester. Working as a software engineer, my salary was always somewhere in
the mid range, and I didn't mind. I think my career was more rewarding to
me than if I had incurred huge debts at a more top-tier University in order
to get higher paying jobs. I guess my point is that higher education could
be a whole lot more affordable without throwing out the face-to-face model
entirely.

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:08 AM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm>
wrote:

> Scott Galloway (professor at  Stern School of business and supposed
> authority) on universities post COVID.
>
> Fifty percent of the investment in prestige university education is for
> 'certification' —  degree that signals your lifetime earnings. The Harvard
> brand is strong enough that students will accept an inferior educational
> experience. The fifty biggest university brands, Harvard, Stanford, etc,
> will partner with tech giants like Apple or Facebook to create a hybrid
> university, most others will hollow out and die like the large department
> store chains. Dorm life and in-person experience will be reserved for
> children of the 1%.
>
> Pretty bleak and a commentary on previous FRIAM conversations about
> education and elite universities.
>
> davew
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