Not a fan of the legislature, but most states have done this. Iowa more than most, however.
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This legislature is more in tune for giving tax breaks to the wealthy and spending money on private schools as opposed to spending it on our universities and community colleges. Time for a change.
I'm not sure if it made it to law, but the go to CC and get your 4 yr degree in some majors. There is no way in hell that is the equivalent degree in reality.
It was not passed. It got panned and canned by the legislature.
IIRC, it was very specific and limited. Only a handful of tech degrees and only if there was not a four year school within a set distance that offered that degree. So, DMACC would not be eligible for any of them.
It cuts into a large source of revenue for the private college around the state, many have already set up satellite programs within the CC which allows those kids to never leave the CC and get a 4 year degree in some degrees. BV has been doing it a lot, so is Graceland. ISU has some for certain things like getting a degree to be a principle in education and a few other things.
I hate to say it but the bachelor grads are not what they used to be. Much easier to get through than when I was there in the Stone Age. My wife deals mainly with fresh ISU grads in her job, some are pretty bad unfortunately. There are of course very good ones too. They just don’t flunk enough kids today.
100% agree. Grade inflation is often very real due to universities pressuring professors to pass students along the process to their degree. A professor within my department was explicitly told to “grade more gently” by the university, but how can we?? I grade papers at a university in Florida, and it’s truly shocking how many students cannot write coherent full sentences. Not to mention, they’ll blatantly use AI at any given opportunity just so they can say the work is done. Mad times we live in.
Agreed and it starts sooner than college.
They did make the Ag Studies major a little more difficult. Now you at least have to show up to a couple classes each semester to get the degree. You also can’t just take all 100 and 200 level classes. Gotta take 2-3 300 or 400 level ones.
My Philosophy has always been if I can use it in my job then I should have been able to use it in school.
For example - Having to memorize all the different accounting stuff in school was stupid because if I don't know something I can look it up. There is no need for me to memorize the tax code because I can research the answer I need.
Numerous times clients will call me and I don't know the answer, but if they give me a few minutes I can usually find it.
That is what should be taught - how to research the answers you need.
Yep, UNI was poised to get a huge boost with the in-state funding model, ISU was going to do much better, and U of I as going to lose a bunch of money.
People might remember U of I pumping out that “University FOR Iowa” campaign back around 2011 or so. That was when it looked like that in state model was going to go through. They were absolutely hammering in-state airwaves trying to beef up their in state enrollment. After that died, they could go back to recruiting Illinois kids.
EIU has made a killing recruiting kids out of Illinois if years. The university of Illinois is very difficult to get into, and it's nearly impossible to get into NW. So lots of those kids that want to be able to say they went to a B10 university are going to EIU or Wisconsin. Makes a lot of sense of both schools, out of state students bring in a lot more money than instate kids. So more money for the university.
Yeah, but why should the State of Iowa help subsidize students from Illinois to attend U of Iowa?
Especially, to the detriment of students from Iowa attending Iowa State.
They shouldn't but the legislature and the BOR has always favored EIU over the other two state universities. Many in power do not want three semi equal universities, they want one major university in Iowa City, and the other two follow their lead and become lesser universities. If some had their way, UNI would only be primarily back to being a teachers college, while ISU would only have AG programs, with many programs being gutted or moved to EIU.
They started doing this in the 90s, which was fine when UNI and ISU had to give up programs, but then it all fell apart when IOWA was told they were going to have to start cutting duplicate programs and be forced to give them up to the other two universities. EIU did not want to give up their engineering and education programs, and the entire project fell apart.
