Wall Street Protests - Page 53

TheMercenary · 01-02-2012, 01:57 PM

‘Occupy Wall Street’ Participation To Earn Class Credit At Columbia U.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/...y-wall-street/

DanaC · 01-02-2012, 02:43 PM

My mate Griff sums up the situation well.

piercehawkeye45 · 01-02-2012, 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

‘Occupy Wall Street’ Participation To Earn Class Credit At Columbia U.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/...y-wall-street/

No one is forced to take the class. I really don't see any issue.

classicman · 01-02-2012, 04:21 PM

Can you get credit to counter the demonstration?
She is admittedly biased.

Undertoad · 01-02-2012, 06:42 PM

Soon to plummet, the value of a college education.

glatt · 01-02-2012, 06:59 PM

I thought it had already plummeted. What's the unemployment rate for recent grads?

classicman · 01-02-2012, 07:39 PM

Depends on the major. Some sobering statistics here.
IIRC, overall the unemployment rate was somewhere in the high nines.

classicman · 01-09-2012, 01:44 AM

Quote:

The old idea of democracy in which the few govern the many through the power of capital and ritualized elections is being replaced with a new understanding of democracy and politics, in which power and resources are shared and economic justice and democratic values work in the interest of social responsibility and the common good. This radical notion of democracy is in the making, unfinished, and open to connecting people, power, resources and knowledge. And this turn toward a radical understanding of connecting the particular to the general is particularly true of their view of higher education. What the Occupy protesters recognize, as the British educator Simon Dawes points out, is that, "'the public university' can be read as shorthand for 'not-neoliberal university,' where neoliberal means more than private funding; it means 'not good for democracy.'"

Link
Hmmm...

ZenGum · 01-09-2012, 06:51 PM

Re: #787

So, we need nurses, engineers and teachers.
We don't need so many psychologists.

Yeah, really?

The only surprise for me there is that "computer adminstration management and security" is also doing badly. Maybe there has been an oversupply. UT, this is all your fault.

kerosene · 01-09-2012, 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZenGum

The only surprise for me there is that "computer adminstration management and security" is also doing badly. Maybe there has been an oversupply. UT, this is all your fault.

I was surprised by that one, too. Perhaps there was some other technology sector type jobs that would have fallen in the middle but closer to the other side of the graph?

Undertoad · 01-09-2012, 08:55 PM

There are bubbles of career interest in the various parts of the computer/networking/IT world. The same kind of bubbles that affect the real estate and other parts of the economy...

Admin is OUT right now, in favor of cloud-based infrastructures, and being able to operate hundreds to thousands of systems using various kinds of automation.

Programmers are IN right now, especially "rock stars" and "gurus" who are heavily sought-after by startups in Silicon Valley.

But after a few years this could reverse again, because the sector is prone to reversing on a dime and leaving scores of really talented people out of work.

*ahem*

Pete Zicato · 01-09-2012, 10:02 PM

It's wrong about teachers, at least for Illinois. There is a huge surplus of teachers here. All the teachers that were expected to retire in the last couple of years can't now because the wall street fiasco/scam killed their savings.

Clodfobble · 01-09-2012, 10:29 PM

We have a huge surplus of teachers here too, because we just laid off something like 10% of them due to budget cuts.

Griff · 01-10-2012, 05:32 AM

Lots of laid off teachers here as well.

kerosene · 01-10-2012, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

There are bubbles of career interest in the various parts of the computer/networking/IT world. The same kind of bubbles that affect the real estate and other parts of the economy...

Admin is OUT right now, in favor of cloud-based infrastructures, and being able to operate hundreds to thousands of systems using various kinds of automation.

Programmers are IN right now, especially "rock stars" and "gurus" who are heavily sought-after by startups in Silicon Valley.

But after a few years this could reverse again, because the sector is prone to reversing on a dime and leaving scores of really talented people out of work.

*ahem*

That's sort of how I thought it was but you explained it in words. Thank you

01-02-2012, 01:57 PM	#781
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	‘Occupy Wall Street’ Participation To Earn Class Credit At Columbia U. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/...y-wall-street/ __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-02-2012, 04:21 PM	#784
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Can you get credit to counter the demonstration? She is admittedly biased. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-02-2012, 07:39 PM	#787
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Depends on the major. Some sobering statistics here. IIRC, overall the unemployment rate was somewhere in the high nines. Attached Images __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-09-2012, 06:51 PM	#789
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Re: #787 So, we need nurses, engineers and teachers. We don't need so many psychologists. Yeah, really? The only surprise for me there is that "computer adminstration management and security" is also doing badly. Maybe there has been an oversupply. UT, this is all your fault. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

01-09-2012, 10:02 PM	#792
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	It's wrong about teachers, at least for Illinois. There is a huge surplus of teachers here. All the teachers that were expected to retire in the last couple of years can't now because the wall street fiasco/scam killed their savings. __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

01-02-2012, 06:42 PM	#785
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Soon to plummet, the value of a college education.

01-02-2012, 06:59 PM	#786
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I thought it had already plummeted. What's the unemployment rate for recent grads?

01-09-2012, 08:55 PM	#791
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	There are bubbles of career interest in the various parts of the computer/networking/IT world. The same kind of bubbles that affect the real estate and other parts of the economy... Admin is OUT right now, in favor of cloud-based infrastructures, and being able to operate hundreds to thousands of systems using various kinds of automation. Programmers are IN right now, especially "rock stars" and "gurus" who are heavily sought-after by startups in Silicon Valley. But after a few years this could reverse again, because the sector is prone to reversing on a dime and leaving scores of really talented people out of work. ahem

01-09-2012, 10:29 PM	#793
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	We have a huge surplus of teachers here too, because we just laid off something like 10% of them due to budget cuts. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

01-10-2012, 05:32 AM	#794
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Lots of laid off teachers here as well. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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