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Author Topic: Monroe college being sued for not getting student a job.  (Read 1407 times)
cranefly
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« on: August 04, 2009, 07:03:11 AM »

Will their sense of entitlement never end? (Not a Chronicle article, but from today's CNN):

NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A recent college graduate is suing her alma mater for $72,000 -- the full cost of her tuition and then some -- because she cannot find a job. Trina Thompson, 27, of the Bronx, graduated from New York's Monroe College in April with a bachelor of business administration degree in information technology.

On July 24, she filed suit against the college in Bronx Supreme Court, alleging that Monroe's "Office of Career Advancement did not help me with a full-time job placement. I am also suing them because of the stress I have been going through."

...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.

"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.

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Her complaint adds, "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. They have not tried hard enough to help me."

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.

...http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/new.york.jobless.graduate/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

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« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2009, 07:08:10 AM »

Psst, over here:

http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,62105.0.html
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« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2009, 12:04:59 PM »

doh! sorry about that. Mods, please delete this thread.
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