If you’re looking for a job, EWU has an opening for a GetLit! Festival Program Coordinator. You’ll need a bachelor’s degree, of course—because clearly you can’t coordinate a festival without having attended four-plus years of college (for which EWU, one of the more affordable options, charges over $6,000 a year for tuition alone).
Oh, and your degree can be in “any field.” Like, say, dental hygiene. Or gender studies. Or music.
I thought of this as I read an exchange between an adjunct philosophy instructor in New York and a person who writes college papers for money.
I think that the system, grading in general, grading as a gold standard of employability, college as the necessary step between high school and employment, all of these things alone aren’t necessarily wrong. But when you get them all together in this network, and college is going to define your future…you need that paper that says, “Diploma,” which means you need to pass. That’s all that matters.
By the way, the University of Washington will be raising tuition 20% next year.
