Diversity of thought, not credentialism, is what the board needs.
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If nothing else, perhaps she'll run a strong enough campaign to make the Democratic Party reconsider its credentialism shibboleth.
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Credentialism and sanctioned work are the basis of economic survival, which, in many costly American cities uniquely put pressure on artistic process and outcomes.
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The advent of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, in 1983, and the rise of the test-prep industry helped create a new culture of competitive credentialism.
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And even as federal loan policy evolved into ever-more exotic permutations, a weak economy and creeping credentialism were pushing more students back into the welcoming arms of higher education, which had all manner of expensive master's programs for sale.
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And even as federal loan policy evolved into ever-more exotic permutations, a weak economy and creeping credentialism were pushing more students back into the welcoming arms of higher education, which had all manner of expensive master's programs for sale.
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It was not widely praised, and yet it precisely pinpointed a cavalcade of pernicious social trends — rising rates of inequality, the factionalization arising from globalization, erosion of nuclear family life, the forfeiture of real academic learning for credentialism — that she felt certain would lead us to a grim place.
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Universities have been criticized as having permitted or actively encouraged grade inflation. In addition, the supply of graduates in some fields of study is exceeding the demand for their skills, aggravating graduate unemployment, underemployment and credentialism.
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Some tertiary schools have been criticized as having permitted or actively encouraged grade inflation. In addition, certain scholars contend that the supply of graduates in some fields of study is exceeding the demand for their skills, aggravating graduate unemployment, underemployment and credentialism.
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Tony Buon holds diplomas in Mediation, Conflict Resolution, Counseling and Teaching. He has also been awarded degrees in Psychology and Behavioural Sciences and he holds Post-Graduate Qualifications in Education and Organisational Psychology. His post-graduate research was into recruitment and credentialism was conducted at Macquarie University in Australia.
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Randall Collins contributed the idea of credentialism to the study of class-based differences in educational attainment. Collins maintains that public schools are socializing institutions that teach and reward middle-class values of competition and achievement. In this view, elites are selectively separated from other students and placed into prestigious schools and colleges, where they are trained to hold positions of power.
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The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. New York: Academic Press. David K. Brown, "The Social Sources of Educational Credentialism: Status Cultures, Labor Markets, and Organizations," Sociology of Education, Extra Issue (2001): 19-34. In particular, the internal dynamics of credential inflation threaten higher education initiatives around the world because credential inflation appears to operate independently of market demand for credentials.
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Creola Johnson (2006), Credentialism and the Proliferation of Fake Degrees: The Employer Pretends to Need a Degree; The Employee Pretends to Have One, Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal, Vol. 23, 2006; Ohio State Public Law Working Paper Series No. 79; Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies Working Paper Series No. 52. Available at SSRN: The name "Trinity College and University" is also used by a distance education institution based in Dover, Delaware, United States, with offices in Málaga, Spain and Islamabad, Pakistan.About Us , Trinity College and University website, accessed March 17, 2008 This institution is a known diploma mill now.
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Opponents of open admissions raised concerns about credentialism and educational inflation, stating that opening colleges to anyone could potentially devalue the college diploma as an asset. They characterized the move to open admissions, not as a genuine attempt at educational reform, but as a maneuver of racial politics and the gross politicization of the educational process. Other, less prevalent criticisms include the idea that, through open admissions, CUNY was, whether purposefully or not, depriving private colleges of students through the combination of open admissions and less expensive tuition. Another criticism of CUNY's open admissions model was simply that it would not effect sufficient change for the underprivileged.
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Credentialism and educational inflation are any of a number of related processes involving increased demands for formal educational qualifications, and the devaluation of these qualifications. In Western society, there has been increasing reliance on formal qualifications or certification for jobs. This process has, in turn, led to credential inflation (also known as credential creep, academic inflation or degree inflation), the process of inflation of the minimum credentials required for a given job and the simultaneous devaluation of the value of diplomas and degrees. These trends are also associated with grade inflation, a tendency to award progressively higher academic grades for work that would have received lower grades in the past.
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Entrance routes and procedures for choosing a college or university, their rankings and the financial value of degrees are being discussed. This leads to discussions on socioeconomic status and race ethnicity and gender. From the student perspective, issues include colleges failing to teach basic skills such as critical thinking, the wide ranges of remuneration and underemployment among the various degrees, rising tuition and increasing student loan debt,Riley Griffin, "The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse: The next generation of graduates will include more borrowers who may never be able to repay." Bloomberg October 17, 2018 austerity in state and local spending, the adjunctification of academic labor, student poverty and hunger, along with credentialism and educational inflation.
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As the proportion of the student population going into higher education has grown to include those of average ability, universities either have to accept a low graduation rate, or accommodate them with a decline in academic standards, facilitated by grade inflation. Also, the supply of graduates in many fields of study is exceeding the demand for their skills, which aggravates graduate unemployment, underemployment, credentialism and educational inflation. Some advocates say that the financial costs that universities require from their students has gone up so dramatically that it is leaving many students in debt of loans of an average of $37,172 compared to 2000, where the average debt students graduated with was $16,928. In the United States there is an estimated 44 million Americans with a combined $1.3 trillion student loan debt.
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Credentialing is the practice of evidencing suitability for engaging in a profession or for employability through documentation of demonstrated competency or experience, completion of education or training, or other criteria as specified by a credentialing authority. The documentation provided by the authority are known as "credentials", and may be in the form of a license, certificate of competency, a diploma, a teaching credential, a board certification, or a similar document. Credentialism refers to the practice of relying on credentials to prove the suitability of a professional person or a skilled employee to be assigned the responsibilities of professional engagement or employment.Effective Operations and Controls for the Small Privately Held Business, Rob Reider Employers may use such gatekeeping methods to ensure competence for the job, or to accede to the pressures of organizations that award credentials to require specific credentials.
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McMillan Cottom's 2017 book Lower Ed is an analysis of the for-profit educational sector from the perspective of students trying to navigate a "risky and highly variable" economy. Lower Ed is based on interviews with students and college executives, analysis of for-profit college promotional materials, and McMillan Cottom's own experience working as an enrollment officer at two for-profit institutions. The main finding is that rising emphasis on credentialism in the American job market pushes students to make riskier but individually rational trade-offs in order to obtain educational credentials. According to McMillan Cottom, for-profit institutions are generally more expensive than non-profit institutions and aggressively market to low-income and working poor students who qualify for the most financial aid, but students are making considered choices about their futures and are not simply being duped by marketing.
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