A college education is not for everyone, and the country should be making greater investments in career-oriented schools centered on growing industries.
In recent years, accreditors have failed to detect schools reporting fraudulent job placement rates, a key standard for accrediting organizations that oversee programs marketing themselves as career-oriented schools.
Colon's case highlights a worry among consumer advocates that, despite the Obama administration's rhetoric, other borrowers who claim to have been defrauded by dodgy colleges and career-oriented schools are similarly being denied their federal rights.
In the 2013 settlement, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman alleged that his office had evidence Sanford-Brown had systematically violated state law by deceiving students with bogus job placement rates at its career-oriented schools, and failed to tell prospective students that certain programs lacked accreditation.
But increasingly, even elite, decidedly non-career-oriented schools are starting to promote their career services during the freshman year, in response to fears about the economy, an ongoing discussion about college accountability and, in no small part, the concerns of parents, many of whom want to ensure a return on their exorbitant investment.
Nonetheless, more and more college students are attracted by the career-oriented education these schools typically offer, as well as by their often relaxed admissions policies and their consumer-oriented focus.
P-Tech is a prime example of the city's recent investment in small schools that focus on career-oriented education while it closes larger, struggling schools.
Some universities, like the University of Southern California and Columbia, are letting students take career-oriented classes in their professional schools -- classes on finance or public health, for example -- and giving them academic credit.
The women were strongly career-oriented, and their orientations to career related positively to their valuing of graduate education.
Hakim assumes that lifestyle preferences are rather constant across the life course, with three main types: career-oriented, family-oriented and those oriented towards combining work and family.
