This is a fresh and interesting piece of writing. I understand the experience of attending to higher education later in life, having done so myself; though I will confess I did not take to it like most people and due to my personal experiences with college/university coursework have taken a decidedly staunch reformer position.
Have you ever thought about what the actual numbers are with regards to how many persons actually have been granted a degree whether AA, BA, MA, or PhD? And have you ever tried to make sense of the somewhat ambitious assertions by various, usually Dept. of ED, sources, advertisements, etc declaring how possessing such and such a degree means enjoying X amount of income potential?
To give some perspective to this issue that I contemplate frequently, here is a quote from an article linked to at the following URL: "The number of doctorate recipients declined slightly in 2020, to 55,283 Ph.D.s across fields, from 55,614 in 2019. This is the first drop since 2017, according to new data from the National Science Foundation’s annual Survey of Earned Doctorates."
55,614 Ph.D.s out of a population of approx. 334,233,854 represents considerably less than 1% of the total population. I will let you work out the direction of my line of thought for now, until we can discuss the matter some other time.
Thank you, I was unaware of this info, and I am going to checkout the source, so thank you for that as well. I'm working on completing this series (in inverse order) to address all of the five points I listed in the article. I would appreciate any further input as I publish them in the next couple of weeks. Admittedly, I am taking an extreme position, but the goal is to shift dialogue towards something more akin to the ideas I hope to present rather than simply continuing along the same path. That is always my position, never expecting us to return to "loincloth" days, as I am often accused.
This is a fresh and interesting piece of writing. I understand the experience of attending to higher education later in life, having done so myself; though I will confess I did not take to it like most people and due to my personal experiences with college/university coursework have taken a decidedly staunch reformer position.
Have you ever thought about what the actual numbers are with regards to how many persons actually have been granted a degree whether AA, BA, MA, or PhD? And have you ever tried to make sense of the somewhat ambitious assertions by various, usually Dept. of ED, sources, advertisements, etc declaring how possessing such and such a degree means enjoying X amount of income potential?
To give some perspective to this issue that I contemplate frequently, here is a quote from an article linked to at the following URL: "The number of doctorate recipients declined slightly in 2020, to 55,283 Ph.D.s across fields, from 55,614 in 2019. This is the first drop since 2017, according to new data from the National Science Foundation’s annual Survey of Earned Doctorates."
55,614 Ph.D.s out of a population of approx. 334,233,854 represents considerably less than 1% of the total population. I will let you work out the direction of my line of thought for now, until we can discuss the matter some other time.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/12/03/survey-shows-annual-decline-number-phds-awarded
Thank you, I was unaware of this info, and I am going to checkout the source, so thank you for that as well. I'm working on completing this series (in inverse order) to address all of the five points I listed in the article. I would appreciate any further input as I publish them in the next couple of weeks. Admittedly, I am taking an extreme position, but the goal is to shift dialogue towards something more akin to the ideas I hope to present rather than simply continuing along the same path. That is always my position, never expecting us to return to "loincloth" days, as I am often accused.