By Jewel

March 18, 2009 12:08 PM | Link to this

No it doesn’t surprise me at all. I think that it is ludicrous because a community college is a good inexpensive way to finance a child’s college education.

By Teacher

March 18, 2009 12:11 PM | Link to this

Never heard that stat, but I never put my communitty college down on resumes. I think it just shows inconsistency when you have two major universities and then a ju-co or communitty college. On one hand it shows you worked hard to get where you are, but what employers care about hard work these days? Very few that I can think of. These days a good work ethic just means you work harded than your counterparts, and probably get more done, but has nothing to do with recieving more compensation or even gratitude in the workplace. Teachers put in many hours a night at home and still are the most unappreciated undercompensated group of people in the workforce. Get your degree and make more money, “forget working hard it will just make you look like a fool for caring about a job that will put you out on the street at some point anyway.” That is the moto of today’s lazy American. Who can blame them when the guy next to you does NOTHING and still is paid the same as you!! Compensate those who work hard and Promote from within. This will ensure you a strong committed workforce.

By RAW

March 18, 2009 12:57 PM | Link to this

The stat does not surprise me. I would like to know what age groups wre studied and in what industries, but you should not be including multiple undergraduate degrees on resumes in the first place. For undergraduate degrees, you indicate the highest on that you received unless there is som relevance to the particular job. Relaize, though, that you are opening yourself up to the sacrifice in pay. There is still a culture in power that believes the 4-year university is a superior education. Twenty years ago, I might have agreed, but todays career and community colleges are teaching cirriculums in some programs that rival most bachelor programs in terms of skill level needed to successfull complete. The other advantage to the modern 2-yr school is the level of knowledge in application of principles taught in these programs. Most 2-year schools employ instructors that have worked or still work in the profession that they are now teaching. This knowledge of application far outpaces the academics found at many top universities that have never actually worked in their chosen field of expertise. As the younger generations, many of whom started at 2-yr schools, moves into management, this trend may reverse itself and actually start to put realistic education requirements on job descriptions. For most positions, a 2-year degree is more than sufficient to preform the tasks necessary.

By King of the Lizard People

March 18, 2009 1:12 PM | Link to this

I would like to see what that number was 10 or 20 yrs ago…because I think the stigma that JC’s are not as good is much less today than 20 yrs ago. I know that currently on-line education is getting more respect and a few years ago this was just the opposite. To me it should not matter where a person recieves their education (if the institution is accredited)…I believe the quality of education a person recieves lies as much (if not more) in the student as the institution itself.