{"id":5963,"date":"2011-02-01T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2011-01-28T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:35:19","slug":"clarion-consensus-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2011\/02\/01\/clarion-consensus-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarion Consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last week, as was reported by the Dayton Daily News<\/em>, we all found out that the Ohio Board of Nursing was revoking the approval of Miami-Jacobs\u2019 nursing program. We are not here to throw stones at them, because any school can have problems. Sinclair\u2019s nursing program was also put on provisional approval recently, so no one is exempt.<\/p>\n

But, as students, we are sympathetic to what the current and former students of Miami-Jacobs are now dealing with.\u00a0 Miami-Jacobs, like any college or university, is not a cheap place to get an education. Students paid a lot of money \u00ad\u00ad\u2013 or came into a high amount of debt \u2013 to get an education they thought would be beneficial to them in the job market.<\/p>\n

Students go to college so they can become prepared to start a career. If, after graduation, after all that money was spent, you now find out that maybe you aren\u2019t as prepared as you thought you were, how would that make you feel?\u00a0 Pretty terrified.<\/p>\n

Employers could be concerned with hiring people from the college. We doubt that those concerns would out weigh having the proper references, but still.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t wish to single-out Miami-Jacobs here.\u00a0 Imagine if you were studying law at Harvard and this happened. The idea we are presenting is, what if your education, that you spent all kinds of time and resources on, was suddenly losing valuable in the job market?<\/p>\n

Going to college is now almost a requirement to have any non-entry level job. There are no factory jobs that pay $80,000 a year. Those don\u2019t exist in this country anymore.\u00a0 Getting a degree is so important, and we accept that. Anyone growing up in today\u2019s America understands that. We understand the cost and dedication required to do that.<\/p>\n

But, there is risk.<\/p>\n

Risk that you won\u2019t find a job and the debt you carry might crush you. Risk that your degree provides limited avenues to find work.\u00a0 And, now, risk that the degree you worked so hard for might suddenly start losing value, though no fault of your own.<\/p>\n

There is some security in knowing that Sinclair is regarded so highly in the Dayton community and in the nation. It\u2019s nice to know that the college cares about giving us the highest quality of education available.<\/p>\n

The biggest lesson to learn here is to do your research before investing in anything you think is worth spending your money on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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