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<p>[Alumna</a> sues college because she hasn’t found a job - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/new.york.jobless.graduate/index.html]Alumna”>Alumna sues college because she hasn't found a job - CNN.com)</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe-election-politics/757773-graduate-college-sue-college.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe-election-politics/757773-graduate-college-sue-college.html</a></p>
<p>Yep, just further proof that you can sue for anything and everything you feel like.</p>
<p>LOL: can you imagine every single potential employers’ response when they google her when her resume comes across their desk?</p>
<p>What a sheer imbecile.</p>
<p>It is a sense of entitlement, isn’t it? That being said, I have to say that many technical colleges in NYC do predatory recruitment. They advertise to lower income people, without actually coming out to state it in black and white, about guaranteed employment upon graduation. They don’t do a good job of screening out unqualified students because all they care about is to get their tuitions. They have a large staff to help those students apply for federal aids (student loans), take the money and leave those students with huge loans they can’t pay off.</p>
<p>I love it – "As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record. But Monroe’s career-services department has put forth insufficient effort to help her secure employment, she claims. …</p>
<p>“They’re supposed to say, ‘I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right – can you interview this person?’ They’re not doing that,” she said.She suggested that Monroe’s Office of Career Advancement shows preferential treatment to students with excellent grades. “They favor more toward students that got a 4.0. They help them more out with the job placement,” she said"</p>
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<p>While I think that the lawsuit is ridiculous, I also think that it is in fact the career center’s job to work with all students who wish to take advantage of their services, and not just the easy cases. If the career center actually WAS unwilling to expend much effort on helping her compared to what they would do for a 4.0 student, she has a legitimate beef. Not a legitimate lawsuit, but a legitimate complaint.</p>
<p>Funny this school should be in the news. I was in a NY suburb a few weeks ago and saw this college, with which I was not familiar. It was housed in several buildings along a main street, one of which I recall having been a Berghdorf Goodmans department store in a previous life. According to their website, each student is assigned an individual career counselor [Monroe</a> College - Career Advancement](<a href=“Home”>Career Services) If this student didn’t use their services, perhaps she has no one to blame but herself.</p>
<p>And apologies for sounding snarky, but what employer cares about a students attendance record? It really has no correlation with their performance. Even someone dumb as a stump can sit in a class. And this person, with a 2.7 GPA is wondering why employers, in this job market, aren’t clamoring to snap her up? Does the article say what her degree is in, or if she has any expereince (at 27 she should have some work experience in some field). Sheesh.</p>
<p>Why isn’t this student also suing all potential employers as well???</p>
<p>This is a young lady who has very poor life skills and is in denial about her finances and her life choices. She made mistakes… and instead of figuring out where she went wrong and making some new smart decisions on how to fix them, she compounds them by her current lifestyle choices and blames others.</p>
<p>She could start with her cell phone and cable bill. I think it is an embarrassment that she still had those bills when the journalist came to interview her… the journalist struck gold in this interview.</p>
<p>The reason she isn’t getting employment has far less to do with her college’s career center and far more with the idea that she can’t think her way out of a paper bag. And I agree with an earlier poster… any potential employer who does a quick websearch on her name is going to be turned off by her attitude and low emotional and financial IQ.</p>
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<p>Jessie, in the current environment, it may be unrealistic to expect the college to get interviews for the 2.7 kids. My guess – employers are giving a cutoff of gpa that they will interview and it is north of 2.7. Should the school say no, interview all or no one? I dont think so. My guess, again guess, is that placement runs clinics, etc. and had she gone and listened she’ld be in better shape.</p>
<p>You got to feel bad for this young person! </p>
<p>Not because there is any merit to her lawsuit, but because so many people like her might be misled by the apparent ease to gain admission to a school such as Monroe, and be placed in a situation where student loans become a substitute for a regular income.</p>
<p>There is probably more than what is spelled in the lawsuit. The student apparently graduated with an associate degree in 2007 and went back to Monroe from April 2008 to April 2009. If she paid Monroe 70,000 for such education, she did make poor decisions. </p>
<p>One has to hope that this publicity will open the eyes of others who might be naive enough to think that all colleges are focused on education. It seems that the office of financial aid should be on trial here! </p>
<p>By the way, that poor thing is suing for the reimbursement of her “tutison” or something like that.</p>
<p>I agree that this lawsuit is frivolous – however, I hope it sends a message to these agressive for-profit schools that recruit underinformed students, make outlandish promises, and charge far more than public community colleges.</p>
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Ever try to get a civil servant removed from a government job? I’ve heard it’s darned near impossible. Some amazingly incompetent people get to keep their jobs.</p>
<p>Agree that there are many “technical schools” that seem to engage in false advertising or predatory recruiting, get the students to take out large student loans- the worst are the schools that then go out of business, leaving the students with no degree/certification and large student loan debt. Sadly, it is a “buyer beware” situation.</p>
<p>“The office of career advancement information technology counselor did not make sure their Monroe e-recruiting clients call their graduates that recently finished college for an interview to get a job placement.”</p>
<p>Lord, lord, lord. Of course the suit is absurd, but I pity this woman. She thinks that it’s the school’s responsibility to “make sure” that employers call HER. Now she’s poisoned her reputation, probably permanently.</p>
<p>What makes this even more sad is that New York has a fantastic City College system, probably the best in the country. Tuition at Lehman College, in the Bronx, would have been less than $5000 a year, and she’d have a much more respected bachelor’s degree.</p>
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That must be the funniest thing I’ve heard this summer.</p>
<p>If she wins her lawsuit, she can use the settlement to pay for surgical removal of that massive sense of entitlement!</p>