This woman needs to wake up. Goodness knows how someone so deluded ever managed to get a degree. Graduate careers do not just fall into your lap, there's a lot of hard graft involved. It sounds to me like she isn't willing to put the work in.

By getting her name out there, I'm guessing all she's done is to get herself blacklisted by a fair number of companies. Who's going to employ a sue-happy graduate with a sense of entitlement? I know I wouldn't.

get a clue trina, ivy leaguers and people with 10x more experience than you arent getting jobs right now.

>> Thompson's mother told the Post that she supports the suit. She said, "She's angry...She put all her faith in them, and so did I. They're not making an effort...We're going to be homeless..."

Why would the mother be homeless?

Unfortunately this sense of entitlement doesn't seem to come from people who have grown up with the expectation that a degree is the natural extension of their educational path.

I kinda, sorta feel bad for her. Now she's getting fleeced by her lawyer for a case that she'll never win (um, precedent, anyone?). She should have gotten the AG's office to go after schools like Monroe for false advertising.

Unfortunately this sense of entitlement doesn't seem to come from people who have grown up with the expectation that a degree is the natural extension of their educational path. Unfortunately diploma mills like Monroe and University of Phoenix cheapen traditional, hard earned degrees from people who actually do attend college to learn, not just clock hours. Part of the failure in the system is that we let students enroll in any course of study they choose, regardless of the availability of jobs in that discipline or allow study at a level that would never be accepted in the market.

I'm happy to see somebody taking the schools to task. From the Boston Globe site:

"I see nothing wrong with bringing the schools to task. The purpose of higher ed is to get good paying jobs. But all the schools want is tuition $$. Both of my kids went to higher ed at an enormous cost to us. The schools could care less about where their grads end up. I've seen it first hand. Anybody buying "in" doesn't realize until grad day that the only one who truly benefitted from the experience was the schools bank accounts."

If you were great at getting a job then you wouldn't work in career services office at a college. Mean but true.

There are countless schools offering courses that they simply do not have the teachers or the necessary facilities for. There are countless schools handing out degrees that are rapidly devaluing all the other schools around them. And yet, if it wasn't for human resources drones following formulas for resume sorting defined in the 1950s this system would have collapsed 20 years ago.

Interestingly, I wonder if a mandatory draft would change people's attitudes towards collegiate education. If every student left high school to serve in the military for a few years likely the value of higher education would return to what it once was... a method of supporting the growth of academia, and not a debtors prison for those hoping for corporate serfdom.

I know people with graduate IVY LEAGUE degrees that have been looking for work for over a year. Gimme a break!!!

That's probably because they were English Lit majors. A humanities major from an Ivy is more useless than a science degree from the worst state school, unless you are the top of your class.

Why people go to college and spend 100-200K and don't major in math, c.s., chemistry, medicine, etc. is often beyond me.

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Yes, save all your poop. Good job Greg.

If she somehow wins, the entire CUNY system is FUCKED.

she must be living in an alternate reality..if she won this lawsuit, 10% of the unemployed population would be suing their schools, parents, teachers,...hrmm, who else can we shift the blame onto...

Monroe insists it helps graduates in their careers.

"The lawsuit is completely without merit," school spokesman Gary Axelbank said. "The college prides itself on the excellent career-development support that we provide to each of our students, and this case does not deserve further consideration."

The college's Office of Career Advancement advertises lifetime free service for graduates, and boasts on the school's Web site: "We have many resources available for students at any stage of their college career, and even after graduation."

Actually, if this is a selling point of their system, which it clearly is, she may have a case. It depends if they really did anything to assist her in getting a job or not. They clearly are obligated (and claim) to provide some type of services and/or support to graduates. I wonder if she tried availing herself of any of them?

Part of any such lawsuit is if she mitigated her damages.

Even if they failed to do anything to get her a job, as if a job is a thing or procession, she must go to court and proved she did what she could to gain employment. Did she volunteer? Did she try to network? How many interviews did she set up for herself, etc. At 27, she better have one hell of a list before making a fool of herself.

She's not even on LinkedIn, so I can't imagine she's done even half the things you suggested.

I can't find her resume anywhere, she probably doesn't even have one. Without merit isn't even the word for it.

I hope she never gets a job. Ever.

her knockers weren't on facebook, i bet she's not even real!@!!

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