Jobless: Trina Thompson Sues Her College
Last week, 27 year old Trina Thompson filed a lawsuit against Monroe College because she can't find a job after graduating in April from the college's IT program.
According the sources at the Associated Press, she is hoping to recover the $70,000, she spent on tuition because the college failed to provide her with the career advice that they had promised. Tina and her family are facing a severe financial crisis because of Tina's student loan debt.
Should she have known better than to take out a 70k loan? Of course! (But it's easy to say that once you've been duped yourself.)
Does she have a valid lawsuit? Hell no! She should take accountability for her actions and not hold the school responsible for her not having a job.
However…
Posted on the school's website: http://www.monroecollege.edu/aboutmonroe
"Monroe offers Certificate, Associate, Bachelor's, and Master's degree programs leading to employment in the most relevant areas for today's rapidly changing global economy."
Colleges all over the country make these types of claims. From ridiculous tag lines to outrageous promises, people are blatantly led to believe that college is the solution to their success.
Poor Tina with her useless IT degree. Just for giggles, I checked out their IT program to see what courses they are offering in this "rapidly changing world." It actually looks very similar to the same program that I took -which was already outdated in 2003! Good luck with that.
CT-290 – Internship (doing what?!)
CP-101 – Introduction to Information Processing ("information processing" is vague. It could be how to send email for all we know)
CP-117 – Programming Logic Using C++ (Well, okay. But you don't need 70k to learn this)
CP-215 – Visual Basic (outdated)
CP-223 – Computer Hardware (not necessary unless you plan on building your own)
CP-270 – Cisco I: Cisco Networking Basics (go to Cisco.com and get Cisco certified instead)
CP-275 – Cisco II: Cisco Basic Routing
CP-295 – System Analysis & Design (Vague)
CP-303 – Operating Systems (Vague)
CP-315 – Management Information Systems (Vague and probably outdated)
CP-330 – Database Management Systems (USING ORACLE) (Better off going straight to ORACLE to get certified)
CP-335 – Telecommunications (What?!)
CP-360 – Network Security (For who? What company? This is hard to generalize)
CP-415 – IT Project Management (You can't learn this stuff in school)
CT-101 – Introduction to Information Technology (Ready to sleep through your 70K education?)
CT-155 – Computer Software (Vague)
August 4, 2009
Tags: Grads sue college, jobless grads, Trina Thompson Posted in: College Alternatives, Dissatisfied College Consumers, Useless Degrees
One Response
maybe she should have looked at a state technical college for 10,000 to 20,000 not to metion she could have taken all cisco classes, they offer the same type of education at a much cheaper cost and for 70,000 she could have received 3 degrees in the computer field because of they way the credits overlap in it, or computer networking, computer programming and, computer network security now I’ll bet shes really going to be kicking herself but its not like she will be living on the streets as she can’t get work so she has nothing but the clothes on her back to take and probably some used textbooks, good luck garnishing her wages so she’ll have poor credit oh well, and if she doesn’t have a job she won’t be able to obtain another degree as she now has a bachelor degree so grants are now non existient to her unless she can get it taken away from her so maybe what she should do is turn the degree back to the college in order to qualify for grants she would be able to qualify for those then
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