02-11-2015, 12:27 AM
I made the mistake of trying to inform people of Ashworth's National Transfer Network at DI without knowing all of the back story on these forums. I am slowly getting caught up now.
As part of the debate I wound up with a (IMO) useful argument against RA being necessary.
I did some simple job search queries and found some empirical confirmation that academic snobbery is in academia.
"Regionally Accredited" = 3,800 Job Postings (almost entirely colleges and universities)
Out of 3.7 million job listings that is 0.1% of jobs explicitly requiring a "Regionally Accredited" degree.
The prestige argument was also rather interesting as a reason given not to go to an NA school was lack of "prestige". Yet, no one would argue any of the Big 3 or any other RA schools they frequently recommend had any "prestige".
And apparently having New Mexico Junior College on my resume as opposed to Ashworth College will make the employers swoon, as it obvious projects educational excellence of the highest caliber being RA.
Finally they pimp StraighterLine, which I have no problem with except for their hypocrisy of it being an unaccredited, for-profit corporation that does not offer financial aid.
Almost forgot, when you need to figure out which schools take NA credits you are just supposed to use Google and people who don't like to use government bureaucracies to do their own financial aid are lazy. If you argue with this "advice" you do not belong in college.
As part of the debate I wound up with a (IMO) useful argument against RA being necessary.
I did some simple job search queries and found some empirical confirmation that academic snobbery is in academia.
"Regionally Accredited" = 3,800 Job Postings (almost entirely colleges and universities)
Out of 3.7 million job listings that is 0.1% of jobs explicitly requiring a "Regionally Accredited" degree.
The prestige argument was also rather interesting as a reason given not to go to an NA school was lack of "prestige". Yet, no one would argue any of the Big 3 or any other RA schools they frequently recommend had any "prestige".
And apparently having New Mexico Junior College on my resume as opposed to Ashworth College will make the employers swoon, as it obvious projects educational excellence of the highest caliber being RA.
Finally they pimp StraighterLine, which I have no problem with except for their hypocrisy of it being an unaccredited, for-profit corporation that does not offer financial aid.
Almost forgot, when you need to figure out which schools take NA credits you are just supposed to use Google and people who don't like to use government bureaucracies to do their own financial aid are lazy. If you argue with this "advice" you do not belong in college.