Academic Freedom Under Assault

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U of P actually has a sorded rep. If you check Online Degree Reviews there are several complaints about the school. I do know a woman at my work who got her MBA there. It did not seem to help her career all that much.

Education USED TO BE the winning ace up the sleeve in our (grand)parents time when few people only had it. These days, mostly everybody has a degree. Then you get prestige and prejudice...with the casualization of jobs and work ethics, employers can afford to pick upscale graduates to punch medical records in...or -better yet- to use that demographic to hire only bottom feeders for a lower wage...so that in the end they can even hire upscale graduates for cheap.
As someone told me, I might have been all that much, but they could be equally served hiring a bottom feeder for much less...it wasn't rocket science after all...
An executive with COCA COLA once told me they hire hundreds of upscale graduates every year when it's tax/accounting/book time, have them do the job for cheap promising a place afterwards, while statistically 99% are going to be be fired and all they have to show for it is a glamorous recommendation letter from COCA COLA saying they were employee of the year; hopefully that will impress JOE'S LEMONADE, Inc enough to land a real job.