Walmart to Help Associates Get College Degrees

[sanantone]

I'm going to be a Debbie Downer like always. We're kind of talking about two groups of people here. There are kids who plan to go to college and MIGHT apply to Walmart for this opportunity. Many middle class kids would rather work at Forever 21 and would turn up their noses at going to school entirely online. Then, there are people who work at Walmart because they don't want to go to college. I'm sure many, if not most, Walmart employees qualify for almost $6,000 a year in Pell Grant money. The average CC is about $3k per year. Many public, 4-year colleges are still under $9k per year.

From firsthand experience as an instructor at a for-profit college, I learned that many students elected to pay 10X the tuition they would have paid at a CC because CCs required too much of them. Imagine how many Walmart employees won't be accepted to UF or won't want to put in the effort to meet admissions requirements.