02-26-2019, 12:45 PM
I have absolutely been specifically asked about butt-in-seat versus online at a job interview. Judging by the conservative, frowning nod and no-comment from the interviewer, I'm guessing "online" was the "incorrect" answer. I think this is a stigma that is going to persist for some time, unfortunately.
For the last seven years I've lived in a D-1 football university town, and it's almost automatically assumed that if you live here, you went to that school.
I can tell you that like mamalbh, I am not impressed by most of the people I've had to work with that walked out of that school with a degree. It's a notorious party school, and relatively known in the region for low admission standards. (Many many students are from Texas because they can't get over the bar for admission into universities there, but still want to go to a big school, so end up here.) The University even brags about their abnormally high graduation rate as a marketing positive, although I view it as a sign of low academic rigor. To put it bluntly, one of the big catalysts that put me on the path to finally churning through enough ACE credits to get a sheepskin was the constant frustration of having to work with this or that complete idiot that had a degree and thinking, "There's no earthly way that person is more educated than me." I've auto-educated in a well-rounded range things over the years, equivalent in my own opinion to a liberal arts education. I finally just formalized it with a degree-granting institution.
So now I suppose I'm going to have to live with the idea that the brick-and-mortar grads may STILL be seen as potentially more qualified because they spent four years of being hung over, butt-in-seat in a physical classroom. It's just a rather funny fact of life.
But it works both ways. Anyone who can't see the value of an online education geared for working adults combined a mountain of very diverse, real-life work experience - and favors a potentially less experienced, less skilled candidate just because they happened to park their butt in a seat.... That's a good way for me to filter out the kind of firms I don't want to work for.
"You'll find in life that everything has an upside." - Robert Khayat.
For the last seven years I've lived in a D-1 football university town, and it's almost automatically assumed that if you live here, you went to that school.
I can tell you that like mamalbh, I am not impressed by most of the people I've had to work with that walked out of that school with a degree. It's a notorious party school, and relatively known in the region for low admission standards. (Many many students are from Texas because they can't get over the bar for admission into universities there, but still want to go to a big school, so end up here.) The University even brags about their abnormally high graduation rate as a marketing positive, although I view it as a sign of low academic rigor. To put it bluntly, one of the big catalysts that put me on the path to finally churning through enough ACE credits to get a sheepskin was the constant frustration of having to work with this or that complete idiot that had a degree and thinking, "There's no earthly way that person is more educated than me." I've auto-educated in a well-rounded range things over the years, equivalent in my own opinion to a liberal arts education. I finally just formalized it with a degree-granting institution.
So now I suppose I'm going to have to live with the idea that the brick-and-mortar grads may STILL be seen as potentially more qualified because they spent four years of being hung over, butt-in-seat in a physical classroom. It's just a rather funny fact of life.
But it works both ways. Anyone who can't see the value of an online education geared for working adults combined a mountain of very diverse, real-life work experience - and favors a potentially less experienced, less skilled candidate just because they happened to park their butt in a seat.... That's a good way for me to filter out the kind of firms I don't want to work for.
"You'll find in life that everything has an upside." - Robert Khayat.
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