Me: Welcome to the ongoing discussion of “The Value of a College Degree”. I’m your host, Donovan Kopetsky. Today, we’re joined by two experts in the higher education field. Please welcome, Freeman Hrabowski, who is the President of the University of Maryland and the chair of President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans, and Mike Rose, Professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
The two of you have somewhat different views on the proper means to obtain educational job knowledge. Professor Rose, in your magazine article “Blue Collar Brilliance”, you seem to believe that a college degree is not the only way to attain successful job knowledge. Would you care to expand …show more content…
The real-life flow of work includes all its messiness and social complexity (Rose 280), and the coping ability that is learned from dealing with it is an essential part of being successful. Understanding the world around us helps a great deal, but actual real-life experiences teaches us how to cope with the world around us and how to assist with the public good of the world. My mother, for example, was a successful talented waitress and what “I observed in my mother’s restaurant defined the world of adults, a place where competence was synonymous with physical work” (Rose 274). “She studied human behavior because her tips depended on how well she responded to the needs of her customers; she became adept at reading social cues and managing feelings, both the customers’ and her own” (Rose 275).
Me: President Hrabowski, you state in your article “Colleges Prepare People for Life” that “students need strong counseling to identify the best possible options” (Hrabowski 261) for college. You also state “That type of counseling is critical, but it is time consuming and expensive for both colleges and high schools” (Hrabowski 261). How do you justify that with the already expensive cost of a college
The two of you have somewhat different views on the proper means to obtain educational job knowledge. Professor Rose, in your magazine article “Blue Collar Brilliance”, you seem to believe that a college degree is not the only way to attain successful job knowledge. Would you care to expand …show more content…
The real-life flow of work includes all its messiness and social complexity (Rose 280), and the coping ability that is learned from dealing with it is an essential part of being successful. Understanding the world around us helps a great deal, but actual real-life experiences teaches us how to cope with the world around us and how to assist with the public good of the world. My mother, for example, was a successful talented waitress and what “I observed in my mother’s restaurant defined the world of adults, a place where competence was synonymous with physical work” (Rose 274). “She studied human behavior because her tips depended on how well she responded to the needs of her customers; she became adept at reading social cues and managing feelings, both the customers’ and her own” (Rose 275).
Me: President Hrabowski, you state in your article “Colleges Prepare People for Life” that “students need strong counseling to identify the best possible options” (Hrabowski 261) for college. You also state “That type of counseling is critical, but it is time consuming and expensive for both colleges and high schools” (Hrabowski 261). How do you justify that with the already expensive cost of a college