Bestcolleges.com reports: “Trade schools also offer a shorter timeline to a real paycheck than most educational paths. Bachelor’s degrees take four years or more to earn — a long time to wait if making a decent wage is your primary goal. By contrast, many vocational certificates can be earned in two years, while others take a year or less.”
In the future, a young man might come home from the factory, grab a beer, and watch the classic frat house comedy “Animal House,” wondering to himself, “I thought college was just for women.”
That’s an exaggeration, but the numbers don’t lie: Fewer men are attending colleges and universities, pushing aside opportunities to stroll across the campus green in favor of trade schools or good old-fashioned work.
“At the close of the 2020-21 academic year,” The Wall Street Journal reports, “women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.”
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While attending a local community college in the '80s for my nursing degree, it was much like that, females outnumbered males and particularly in the nursing program males were not much appreciated by the old hag nurses that were instructors. That trend continued through both my Masters. I just ignored them and turned in good grades. After I got my degree, I went back and told them to "stuff it" in so many words... If I had to do it all over I would have gotten a Technical degree and not have as much the hassle I endured dealing with females with the rest of my career.
ReplyDeletea Technical degree and not have as much the hassle I endured dealing with females with the rest of my career.
DeleteI bet and I took a typing class with all girls, which I liked, but the the female instructor didn't like me. :)
I returned to college in the early 1980s. My interest lay in earth sciences. Because several of the courses were also required for nursing, I was able to observe their academic progression. For the two male nurses I knew, that two year certification took over three years. Certainly the nursing field was backlogged - crammed full of students - but that didn't fully account for the seeming delay in their progression. To their immense credit, both stuck it out and got through successfully. Now that I write this I recall them speaking of the difficulties they endured which didn't seem to affect the female nurses I knew (four).
DeleteThe males responded to the apparent bias by different means, including taking a quarter or two off so they may reenter the program at what was hoped a better time.
Ridiculous and thanks.
DeleteAnother thought occurred to me Mr Brock, men will again be dominate again, who ya gonna call when the toilet plugs, the electricity in one part of the house stops working, the roof needs attention? Why white males that have a technical degree and skills... want to dismiss me because white men evil? Ma'am, that bill just doubled... If all men just stopped working and refused to change the oil in these persons car, society would collapse in two months...
ReplyDeleteGood idea/point.
DeleteA technical certification won't present the opportunities for a well rounded education as much as the traditional education. But it must be considered that whether the tech course or the traditional education, it is mostly up to the student to receive that well rounded education. By this I mean it is to the student to develop the interest in, say classical literature. A course of study may expose one to the subject but it is to the individual to hold the interest in their own development. Therefore, perhaps it is a wash, or moot which path one should take in order to secure that vaunted education.
ReplyDeleteI was not the best student, far from it, yet I had a deep passion for reading since early childhood. This propelled me ahead of school mates in knowledge. The downside was I fidgeted in the classroom as I perceived it too slow, a drag.
I did finally attend a tech school, sort of. Well into my career I went through a three year university course which yielded a certificate rather than a degree. The course was the same as the degree program except not having the lab work. This due to the cert program was designed for students who had already been years in the field.
A few years later I went through civilian flight training for my commercial airman certificate. I mention this because neither cert program was concerned with anything more than the direct subject. If one wants to become truly knowledgeable, they must study the many other disciplines which lay outside the immediate concerns of a certificate program.
Example: one particular plumber I knew well commanded $100/hour. This was in the early 1990s. He was worth every cent. He was so very good at his trade that he would usually save the client money over that of hiring a lesser skilled plumber. Yet he was frustratingly ignorant about other subject. Trying to read his typed invoices was frustrating as they were fraught with misspellings and stupefying syntax. I like him a lot but learned to not attempt to converse with him about most any other subject.
It wasn't that he didn't care, it is that he had never developed the aptitude.
Very interesting and there is much to be said for a Liberals Arts degree which is what I received but it was quite different back then, needless to say and it was an all boys school.
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