Jobless Grad Sues College To Get Back Her Tuition
August 3, 2009 by COED Staff
A New York City woman who says she can’t find a job is suing her college for the $70,000 tuition she spent in earning a bachelor’s degree, the New York Post reports.
Trina Thompson, 27, filed a lawsuit last week against Monroe College, saying she has not been able to find a job since she got her information technology degree in April.
She says the school’s Office of Career Advancement hasn’t provided her with the leads and career advice it promises, the newspaper reports.
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My first girlfriend told me I had the biggest penis EVER. I would like to sue her for 3 more inches.
Oh this is odd but it makes sense as probably the college did not teach her good to get a job.
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Her college’s career services department pays people 70K a year to comb through Craig’s list, snag-a-job, and Career Builder. They have no actual contacts with recruiters or employers except Wal-Mart, Domino’s Pizza, or other fast food and crappy retail jobs. Colleges like Sanford-Brown, Westwood, DeVry, University of Phoenix have useless career services departments. I thought the idea of going to college was to be able to get away from that kind of crappy work? I didn’t study Rocket Science to say “would you like fries with that?”
Of course one of the sales pitched in recruiting a prospect students is that they will lie about how their career services department works, and they will lie about recruiter contacts, and placement success. They will quickly tell a prospective student what what they want to hear, but never the truth. You only find out their career services departments are worthless when they are pushing jobs like holding signs in the rain, working fast food, crappy retail customer service jobs that pay minimum wage, or push a greeter or shelf stocker positions at Wal Mart when graduation comes around.
A college can teach one to set up a resume, establish networks, and how to do all the grunt work. Most of the time it is up to the student and how they present themselves.
I think Career Services departments in such institutions should be held more accountable.