[RegulatorCountry]

They're doing it because of demand. People can't afford to pay for a four year degree but still want one, so they're going to CC for two years, transferring credits and then getting a four year university degree.

[angry elephant]

I think the point of that comment was that the CC could provide two-year courses in something that is actually marketable.

Instead they just give the kids two years of liberal arts and then pass them on to a university for more of the same. It matters little whether a student attends a CC for the first two years or goes four years to a university if they are studying non employable curriculi.

Of course, all the guidance counselors in high school and college have their degrees in philosophy and sociology and they enjoy reaffirming themselves by putting students on the same course. The scientists, engineers, plumbers and electricians are not the ones guiding the career paths of the youn.

[faithhopecharity]

yes and doing first 2 years at community college is just great

but some of the community colleges are cutting their career-path classes

(Note that most of the career-path classes do give students what they need to earn livings. But, a lot of the students in the “BA transfer track” get degrees that do NOT provide them much in the way of knowledge or skills for earning livings. And to be quite honest, most of the humanities type courses do not really teach much that would be recognized as genuine “liberal arts” or serious “knowledge for its own sake,” either... ).

All I’m saying is that this is leading to more total unemployment as so many students take programs of study that are not useful in terms of the job market. AND I will add one more thought, for whatever its worth, if a student takes 4 or 5 years of sociology and remedial English and ethnic studies and “community organizing” — whatever that may be — and then winds up unemployed, it is because they have made themselves unemployable ... they could have taken some courses that would have given them knowledge and skills enabling them to actually make livings. They chose not to do that. Fine and dandy, just don’t complain to me about it. I’ve already paid through the nose to build and subsidize all those colleges you went to. That’s enough subsidy, you’re 28 years old... if you can’t find a job, then make one for yourself... start a business... foreign immigrants are doing it all the time here....)

“Time to grow up... despite what the politicians want you to believe....”