If I was a student at Princeton, after surveying the minefield that is interaction with female students, and the pervasive anti-male hysteria, I'd go off campus and find some "townie" girls to party with.
I've been advocating this for a while as an alternative to the law school route for lawyers. Basically give (at least) two options to become eligible to sit for the bar exam: (1) the traditional law school route, or (2) a full-time apprenticeship under a member of the bar in good standing for three years.
If my proposal were ever adopted, I think you'd see significantly decreased tuition rates and debt loads for attorneys, since law schools now have competition, and you'd have far fewer stories of people taking on massive debt loads only to realize that they don't actually want to be a lawyer after all. I think you'd also see a greater law school emphasis on clinical courses (and attendant hiring good clinical professors) that allow students to do actual legal work, rather than the predominantly academic offerings you see now. And I think you'd even see a marginal improvement in the overall quality of attorneys, since a lot of them would now have practical experience as soon as they become licensed bar members.
I'm also aware that my proposal will almost certainly never be adopted in the states that require a law degree from an ABA-accredited law school. Ironically, the closest state to my proposal is California, which allows anyone to sit for the bar even if they don't have a law degree. (This is partly why California's bar passage rate is so low...it's literally open entry.)
If I was a student at Princeton, after surveying the minefield that is interaction with female students, and the pervasive anti-male hysteria, I'd go off campus and find some "townie" girls to party with.
Good thing my situation isn't this bad (yet). Granted, we do have to have our fingerprints taken the next time we renew our IDs (srs) and this type of politics has already entered into the University in pretty much every single position (students, faculty, dean, ...), but no mandatory bootcamps yet. Not getting my hopes up about it either. Hope I'm long gone by then.
One of my customers is the head of engineering for a major petroleum company that we all know. We had this very conversation a few months ago. He has several $150,000-$200,000 positions he can not fill.
He says there is a severe shortage--in all fields of engineering--of guys just out of college who even minimally grasp engineering. He's talking engineering grads here. Even worse, once hired they won't work.
Every business owner I know is now training from within as much as possible. Further, every business owner I know is automating as fast as possible.
GE and quite a few engineering concerns do that to an extant but not in a dedicated manner. But that approach would solve a lot of problems as long as such a system doesn't completely narrow down a student's domain knowledge, i.e., gives the students a broader exposure.
I believe such nonsense is inevitable for arts/humanities colleges
And this just started like, what, last year, right?
Yeah, you'd have to spend some time thinking about it.
But you'd remain enrolled in school?
Yeah buddy, that would fill up really quickly.
Apprenticeship works very well for many trades. Lawyering, carpentry, sports coaching etc. But not so much for medicine. The basics are too vast and voluminous for apprenticeship model to be effective out right. Doctors transition to an apprenticeship model. But I do agree that every form of education should transition to or at least involve the old school apprenticeship model. Once in a while I get to see (metrosexual?) mechanical engineers that are reluctant to get grease on to their hands!
This is a regular trend I see for the American multi-national I work for. Whenever they have opening for engineering jobs, they're eventually forced to recruit either Indians or Chinese with work visas. An Indian colleague who's now an American citizen observed, "It's almost like every American wants to do some degree in humanities, become a real estate agent and become a millionaire double quick. Nobody seems to be interested in being an engineer, create value, produce goods etc.!"
I'm sure many of you have seen Mike Rowe's constant support of skilled trade education. He asserts that there are around 6 million unfilled skilled labor jobs in the US. They simply need the workers, with the skills, and a desire to earn a paycheck.
When you mention companies adopting an internal education system- many of them don't need to, because the educatory support exists already, and the companies are ready to pay people to attend the schools.
For instance, not long ago, Caterpillar was trying to hire people and pay for them to attend UTI to learn to repair CAT heavy equipment. Those graduates would instantly walk into a job paying nearly 75k, with the ability to leave after a few years and seek even higher wages at other heavy equipment repair firms.
One of the problems is that we, as an American society, have convinced each other that a College Education is the gold standard, and it's not. It could be useful, and may be necessary for many professions. But in telling our kids they HAVE to go to college, we've explained that the alternative is having to take up employment in a "lesser" occupation, like a plumber, electrician, mechanic, welder, or some other such blue-collar trade. Without realizing it, we've relegated the skilled trades to second-class status, disregarding the fact that workers in those trades experience immense job satisfaction and often earn incredible wages. If I'd known in high school that welders can make 6 figures, my exploration of college curriculae would have been much shorter-lived, if it ever lived at all.
Ultimately, where we're at is the fault of the parents of the kids who we currently love to blame for societal downfall. It's not millenials; it's their parents. It's not going to be our kids; it's going to be our fault. I plan to raise my boys with work ethic and a never-ending desire to improve oneself. I don't care one bit if they don't go to college.