Krabby Kathy recommends a blog post about an article about stinky master's programs

Krabby Kathy recommends a Naked Capitalism article that praises a WSJ article about stinky master's programs.  

The flava:

The Wall Street Journal has done a terrific job of reporting in a new article, ‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off. Even though it discusses a general phenomenon, that of too many students of modest means acquiring student-debt-funded graduate degrees where the prospects of the borrowers paying off their obligations is practically nil.

The Journal documents that Columbia is the outlier, both in the ratio of “untenable if you don’t have rich parents paying for them” master’s degrees, and the particularly dreadful cost/earnings ratio (proxied by the debt/income ratio) of two programs, drama/theater arts and film.

The article:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/07/wall-street-journal-fingers-columbia-as-leader-in-grad-students-whose-student-debt-leaves-them-financially-hobbled-for-life.html

I'm Rubber, You're Glue [from Wombat of the Copier]

Wombat's Colleague:  "The students just don't want to learn anything they don't already know, even if it means sticking with inefficient, unsophisticated or immature methods that actually make everything harder for them in the end."

Also Wombat's Colleague:  "Here's my part of the course outline for the class we're teaching together."  [sends Office '97 document]

Mills College Enters Negotiations to Become Part of Northeastern University [SFist]

 https://sfist.com/2021/06/17/mills-college-enters-negotiations-to-become-part-of-northeastern-university/

If Texas A&M University can have a campus in Qatar, then perhaps it's not so strange for Mills College to merge with Northeastern University?

Big Hungry

Seriously, has anyone gotten anything meaningful done this year (besides stay alive)?

Vartan Gregorian, 1934-2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vartan_Gregorian 

Cheating Is Easier Than Ever For Online College Students [TODAY]

 

:-)

Houston Austin Plainview Plano Yoakum Brenham Ingram Rockdale Texarkana Harlingen Dallas Alpine Yorktown, Corsicana Abilene Lockhart.

Great Lakes Greta submits a note of yearning.

 Is someone actually maintaining Zooze the Horse? 

Man, I hope so.

love, 

great lakes greta

How Public Universities Became So Expensive [Wall Street Journal]

 

letter to editor in Wall Street Journal -- February, 22, 2021