02-11-2015, 02:42 PM
(02-11-2015, 02:05 PM)Armando Ramos Wrote: By making transfer credit difficult the higher ed cartel effectively exploits students by discouraging price shopping.
Exactly, who is going to protect the paychecks of academia when they actually have to earn their money by teaching classes that produce real results for a price students can afford?
The irony here is how similar RA argumentation is to the climate change debate, I recognized the same appeals to authority, circular logic and unsubstantiated fear-mongering. This is a shame because from my research DE/DL can be a big part of the solution to skyrocketing high education costs (that and abolishing federal student aid). Even with all the government red-tape and RA misinformation out there I like the options I see with some of these NA schools.
(02-11-2015, 02:05 PM)Armando Ramos Wrote: The vast majority of those few organizations mandating a "regionally accredited" degree either have no idea what they are talking about or otherwise are using the term as a generic synonym for a "legit" (i.e., not diploma mill) degree. The RA cartel certainly would like the sheep to believe that "the RA label" was a mark of quality, and not a tool of power, control, centralization and coercion.
They are definitely using the implied fear-mongering of "RA or it's a diploma mill" no matter how many minor concessions to NA they try to throw out but these only happen when they are challenged. They also prey on those prone to peer-pressure and want to be part of their group who always have to add cavaets to any defense of NA there.
The key I believe is to use things like NA and the USDOE against them to make them answer questions they cannot answer such as,
Why would an employer not believe a degree is legitimate when the U.S. Department of Education recognizes the school as accredited?
They have no where to go and fall back into circular reasoning.