tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post904105311073486045..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Universities have practically no effect on graduates' salaries. Let's hold universities responsible for graduates' salaries.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-25014758978189925242015-09-16T19:17:52.396-04:002015-09-16T19:17:52.396-04:00Well, this makes me feel a bit better about fallin...Well, this makes me feel a bit better about falling well below the medium income for Ivy League grads 10 years out of school. I don't know why the "look how much more Ivy League grads are making than you" stories that came out of the same data set depressed me (it's not as if they were news to me, or my freshman-year roommate the public interest lawyer, or my classmate the Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-17766457746643224272015-09-16T06:19:58.105-04:002015-09-16T06:19:58.105-04:00Sorry! My snark wasn't clear. :)
My public ...Sorry! My snark wasn't clear. :)<br /><br />My public school offers all types of students the chance to test themselves, but where I now teach greatly limits the type of student it accepts. Therefore, its graduation rates are higher, and with its emphasis on "applied" programs, its ranking will simply rise because of the students' future earnings.<br /><br />And if I may, noTubaPlayingProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06524484569241433720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-14897974841627858622015-09-15T18:20:14.870-04:002015-09-15T18:20:14.870-04:00Thank you, Frankie Bow, for the boost today. My fr...Thank you, Frankie Bow, for the boost today. My friend has just hired a college application coach for her high school junior to get her into the best university possible. I have not done that for either offspring, and in fact have told Son # 2 that he should focus on public colleges and universities in our great state. The friend's daughter is a straight-A STEM student; my son, not so much. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-80360193848135592122015-09-15T18:15:47.724-04:002015-09-15T18:15:47.724-04:00Is there a Hallmark card for Ironic Congratulation...Is there a Hallmark card for Ironic Congratulations? <br /><br />Are you better off than your cousins and sixth-grade classmates financially or in a sense of having meaningful work? Or are they happier with their jobs and the results of their jobs?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-42038275177767023302015-09-15T11:04:46.029-04:002015-09-15T11:04:46.029-04:00Thank you for this excellent post.
Where I now ...Thank you for this excellent post. <br /><br />Where I now teach ranks higher than where I once studied. <br /><br />All my alma mater did was to give a chance to a first-generation English speaker and first-generation eighth-grade graduate to wind up in the Northeast as a teacher at a school where its students earn good starting salaries and its faculty members don't. TubaPlayingProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06524484569241433720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-19012110181254614492015-09-15T09:18:25.498-04:002015-09-15T09:18:25.498-04:00This goes in the same damn category as "multi...This goes in the same damn category as "multiple choice tests measure testing ability" and "student evaluations of teaching are nearly random data" but the way social scientists are trained these days seems to leave most incapable of questioning the validity of data.Jonathan Dresnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04356112719229675996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-56729641162971222772015-09-15T08:02:33.739-04:002015-09-15T08:02:33.739-04:00Yes, the entire premise of "performance fundi...Yes, the entire premise of "performance funding" is flawed.<br /><br />Among its many duties, the USGS publishes maps. If they were to follow the DoE's method of presenting data evident here, those maps would be indistinguishable from, and therefore as useful as, the fingerpainting of the average kindergartener,<br /><br />Ogre want to SMASH!Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.com