In “Other Ways to Win”, Penn State scholars Kenneth C. Gray and Edwin L Herr, tell students to carefully consider whether a four-year college is really right for them and provide many alternatives.
They are concerned that the following facts are not fully recognized:
A college might be easy to get in, but very difficult to get through.
Community colleges often offer an “open admissions” policy. Sometimes, you’ll even see this at a public four-year college. The fact is, though, that in these schools, only about half of students will graduate within six years.
For the foreseeable future, the number of job openings for four-year college graduates is far below the number of those qualified.
Furthermore, on average, technical workers who don’t have a four-year college degree will attain higher salaries than four-year college degree holders, with the exception of the “professional ranks”.
Technical jobs are the fastest growing, most lucrative, sector of the labor force.
And within this sector, the fastest growing, most lucrative, jobs require a two-year associate degree.
Bottom line: A four-year college degree is not the best solution for everyone. Two-year technical education provides many promising alternatives. More on this soon!
My mission is to empower youth with: - The knowledge about career possibilities, and the education and training needed to attain them - The creative-thinking and emotional skills that make for good career decisions and which employers prefer; - And the resilience needed to flourish in life.
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