{"id":63883,"date":"2014-12-29T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=63883"},"modified":"2017-07-09T00:32:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T05:32:54","slug":"in-employers-eyes-for-profit-colleges-are-equivalent-to-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/12\/29\/in-employers-eyes-for-profit-colleges-are-equivalent-to-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"In Employers’ Eyes, For-Profit Colleges are Equivalent to High School"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2\"<\/a>Holding a\u00a0college degree, it is widely assumed, improves the likelihood that a person will be successful in the labor market. \u00a0This maxim draws individuals into college across the class spectrum and aspiring\u00a0students who are\u00a0low-income or non-white\u00a0may find themselves<\/a>\u00a0enrolled at a for-profit college.<\/p>\n

For profit colleges have been getting slammed for their high prices, low bars, and atrocious graduation rates. \u00a0Now we have another reason<\/a> to worry that these institutions are doing more harm than good.<\/p>\n

Economist Rajeev Darolia and his colleagues sent out 8,914 fictitious resumes and waited to see if they received a response. \u00a0They were interested in whether\u00a0attending a for-profit college actually enhanced job opportunities, as ads for such schools claim, so they varied the level of education on the resumes and whether the applicant attended a for-profit or community college.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Ryan McNight flickr creative commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It turns out that employers evaluate applicants who attended two-year community colleges and those who attended for-profit colleges about equally. \u00a0Community colleges, in\u00a0other words, open just as many doors to possibility as for-profit ones.<\/p>\n

Darolia and his colleagues then tested whether employers displayed a preference for applicants who went to for-profit colleges versus\u00a0applicants with no college at all. \u00a0They didn’t. Employers treated\u00a0people with high school diplomas and coursework at for-profit colleges equivalently.<\/p>\n

Being economists, they staidly conclude that enrolling in\u00a0a for-profit college is a bad investment.<\/p>\n

H\/t Gin and Tacos<\/a>.\u00a0Image borrowed from Salon.com<\/a>. Cross-posted at Pacific Standard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holding a\u00a0college degree, it is widely assumed, improves the likelihood that a person will be successful in the labor market. \u00a0This maxim draws individuals into college across the class spectrum and aspiring\u00a0students who are\u00a0low-income or non-white\u00a0may find themselves\u00a0enrolled at a for-profit college. For profit colleges have been getting slammed for their high prices, low bars, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,29,34,55,778,285],"class_list":["post-63883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-class","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-intersectionality","tag-raceethnicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63883"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70404,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63883\/revisions\/70404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}