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Old 01-02-2012, 01:57 PM   #781
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‘Occupy Wall Street’ Participation To Earn Class Credit At Columbia U.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/...y-wall-street/
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Old 01-02-2012, 02:43 PM   #782
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My mate Griff sums up the situation well.
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Old 01-02-2012, 04:05 PM   #783
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‘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.
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Old 01-02-2012, 04:21 PM   #784
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Can you get credit to counter the demonstration?
She is admittedly biased.
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Old 01-02-2012, 06:42 PM   #785
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Old 01-02-2012, 06:59 PM   #786
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I thought it had already plummeted. What's the unemployment rate for recent grads?
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Old 01-02-2012, 07:39 PM   #787
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Depends on the major. Some sobering statistics here.
IIRC, overall the unemployment rate was somewhere in the high nines.
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Old 01-09-2012, 01:44 AM   #788
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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.'"
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Old 01-09-2012, 06:51 PM   #789
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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.
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Old 01-09-2012, 07:03 PM   #790
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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?
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Old 01-09-2012, 08:55 PM   #791
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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*
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Old 01-09-2012, 10:02 PM   #792
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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.
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Old 01-09-2012, 10:29 PM   #793
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We have a huge surplus of teachers here too, because we just laid off something like 10% of them due to budget cuts.
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Old 01-10-2012, 05:32 AM   #794
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Lots of laid off teachers here as well.
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Old 01-10-2012, 10:50 AM   #795
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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
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