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Private colleges argue potential harms of 4-year community college degrees (iowacapitaldispatch.com)

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here we used to have a University of California (UC) system that let people earn PhDs, which was separate from California State University (CSU) system. Up until a couple years ago, if you wanted a PhD, you had to go to UC. The CSUs were more vocational. Instead of building up the infrastructure, the powers that be decided CSU could start offering PhDs. The result, from my vantage point, has been a flood of dumb ass PhDs appearing. I guess the same will happen with Bachelors with CCs offering Bachelors.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, this is the sort of duplication that I'm talking about.

And flooding markets with PhDs that can't support them as another major problem in academia.