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Keywords: College, General Education 

Summary: In this article Ann Rondeau is describing the bias of general education. On how just the name of general education is not as special. But contrary to popular belief GenEd has value beyond its name. It has a direct relationship to analytical understanding and gives us insight into what things mean. She also says around 91 percent of employers are looking for employees to take more responsibilities and that they should have a broad set of skills. Employers are looking to hire a person that is the whole package. They want people to possess knowledge beyond just knowing their job. They also want individuals that have those soft skills not listed as part of a certification or degree.
Opinion: I agree with this topic to an extent. I do agree that employers are looking for the whole person concept. I do not agree that having a college degree will make people take on more responsibilities. ]]> 2018-12-03 01:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jsarath/vqs1zergegu1/wish/310256595 jsarath https://padlet.com/jsarath/vqs1zergegu1/wish/310725730 https://www.waldenu.edu/programs/resource/top-advantages-of-general-education-requirements-in-college
Keywords: College, General Education, Pro
Summary: In this article they list a few examples of why general education requirements are important to your education, life, and career. The first in the list is that it helps build a base of knowledge. This is just entry level courses in arts and humanities, mathematics and natural sciences, and social sciences. This serves as a refresher from high school courses. It also talks about how general education enhances your communication skills. They do this because they include courses in written and oral communications. These skills can aid in today’s business environment where communication skills are important. The next skill that it can improve is your critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is the ability to analyze and evaluate an issue in order to form a judgment. To put it in another way, critical thinking is where you can take all the information available, have multiple interpretations, and conclude a decision that is rationally defensible. Last, they say that it can help with your career. The way it helps your career is that you can use the base that you learned to apply it with any part of your job.
Opinion: I do believe that general education can help with critical thinking and communication skills. The students taking a public speaking class or doing many presentations can aid in real world applications.

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Keywords: Community College, Credits, waste of time
Summary: In this column it is talking about college students in community college. The students in community colleges are taking way too many courses to just get their associates. The problem is far more pronounced for community college students, who make up 40 percent of all undergraduate students in the United States. Students who obtain a two-year associate degree typically complete a whopping 22 excess credits. Some students, of course, efficiently earn their associate degrees by taking only what they need, typically 60 credits. But just as many are on the other end of the spectrum, taking over 100 credits to finish. Many community college administrators are hoping that prescribing specific course will cut down on excess credits. 
Opinion: I do believe that students unwillingly take extra courses without knowing it. That does lead to more debt and wasted time that they will not get back. Just to get an associates is only 60 credits but some schools make it hard to just take 60 credits because of requirements for other courses.]]> 2018-12-04 02:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jsarath/vqs1zergegu1/wish/310726205 jsarath https://padlet.com/jsarath/vqs1zergegu1/wish/310726687 https://qz.com/477052/the-4-year-us-college-degree-is-an-expensive-time-waster/ 
Keywords:General Education, Cost, Waste of Money
Summary:In this article it is talking about how college is costing more for students and that they can not even afford it even with the help of financial aid and taking out loans would take a very long time to pay back depending on how much you must take out. American higher learning could learn much in the way of providing affordable, quality education from its UK. British students are generally required to declare an intended concentration prior to gaining admission to a university. This will provide an atmosphere of focus. Students commit to a path of study from the get-go, instead of the more casual dabbling a typical American liberal arts curriculum encourages. And a typical British Bachelor’s degree takes three years to achieve, not four. That translates to a lot of money saved on unnecessary credits at current US prices. At the end of the day, the current model of degree-financing in America isn’t sustainable. And while it’s nice to think of college years as a period of “finding oneself” wasting time in several academic disciplines before finally settling on a course of study. It’s not a luxury everyone can afford .
Opinion: This article really stood out to me it compared so many topics and shed light on how Universities in the US differ in their general education requirements. I also liked the fact that they included how the UK does their higher education system. For a system to have students pick their major before going in will help focus students and save money because they know what they want.]]> 2018-12-04 02:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jsarath/vqs1zergegu1/wish/310726687 jsarath https://padlet.com/jsarath/vqs1zergegu1/wish/310727431 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/back-school-older-students-rise-college-classrooms-n191246
KeyWords: Cost, Expensive, Waste of time, Waste of money
Summary: In this article I just want to focus on the two videos that are in this article. In the first video Purdue University President Mitch Daniels presenting the reason why tuition is soaring. He is saying that the system is broken and that the colleges know this, and they are exploiting the issue. He also says that students are looking for value in colleges. In order to reduce the cost of college is a step by step process. Mitch wanted to try to adjust the spending of schools to the spending of the people instead of the other way around. The other video in the source is a comparison if the cost of college is worth it. This video gives examples of pros and cons of a college degree. Just to highlight a few of the cons the first one “50% of students that have a college degree is either unemployed or are working jobs that don’t require their college degree.” The second one is that the average college student is in debt by at 40,000 dollars and America is a trillion dollars in student debt. Lastly, colleges are not teaching skills for the market of tomorrow. Colleges do not advise on how the current job market is and do not provide real world applications to their field of study.
Opinion: I could not agree more with Mitch Daniels when he said that the college system is just exploiting the fact that they can raise the prices of tuition cost. I also loved the way Dale Stephens presented his cases of why a college degree is not worth as much as everyone thinks it is.  Everyone gets this stigma if I get a college degree I am going to get a great job. That is just an illusion. It takes time and hard work for people to make lots of money. I also feel bad with the pressure that parents put on their kids to go to college. Kids that are forced to go to college drop out pretty quick because they figure college isn't for them.]]> 2018-12-04 02:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jsarath/vqs1zergegu1/wish/310727431