Hannah Stratman Source 4

What influences do corpratization and prestige hold on the function of higher education and what does that tell us about the institution of higher education as a whole?
 
Is the cost ongoing to college worth the benefits?

Doyle, William. "Overeducated American?". Change. Volume 43. Issue 4. July/August 2011. Web. 7 March 2016.

In Doyle's article, he brings up the fact that maybe America doesn't need to have such a high focus on higher education anyway. I might not pay for an individual to pursue a college degree. He brings up the fact that there has been a "steep decline" in amount of time students spend in class and study combined. The main object of the article is to bring up the debate on whether of not the economy actually needs as many college graduates as college graduates out there. Many college graduates end up working enjoys that may not require a college degree. So does that make college a waste of time, effort, and money?  Doyle gives three reasons that a college degree can still be relevant: 1) more education= more money, 2) same as one really, 3) Occupations can change over time and one with higher education can be more flexible. These are all fairly self explanatory.

This article is interesting. I guess I really don't have the perspective of seeing that a college degree is worthless. I think that employers still want someone with a college education. As listed in the article, there still are many benefits to having a college degree whether it is social skills or street knowledge that helps you become better equipped for the job then other non-college graduate applicants. I agree with that statement. I'm also not sure if agree with the fact that people with a college degree automatically make more than people who don't. I think that people that graduate from college are going to have higher paying jobs (doctors, lawyers, etc.). I believe that the person who is the most effective and most successful is going to make more money; whether they graduated from college or not.

In my first source, Mills talks about the influence of prestige and college rankings in the race to be the biggest and the best. As corporatization expands, students and their families become the rabid consumers of higher education. However, Doyle focuses on how college education isn't really a requirement anymore. So it makes me question if the only reason students still to college is because of the prestige higher education holds. Parents push to have their kids attend college because they think that they need to in order get well paying job but maybe that isn't the case. Perhaps students can earn decent paying jobs without paying all the money to attend college in the first place.

This article brings the question..What does this tell us about higher education as a whole? Does this mean higher education isn't worth it? Is the only reason we are going to higher ed because of the status and prestige that come along with it?