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Re: Hawk Talk #3
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:10 pm
by JAD77
Asa Packer wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 1:50 pm
I appreciate your intelligent, passionate response. So, my take:
No, today there are
several useless majors. Want to hear some that Lehigh offer: art history, religion studies, Africana studies,
women, gender & sexuality studies
What on earth does one do with a degree in gender studies?
My daughter has a good friend who got a degree in art history. She is now assistant director of a large art museum. Limited use perhaps, but their is a field for it.
Re: Hawk Talk #3
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:23 pm
by Mountain Hawk
My point was that there are a good many majors at Lehigh that are wildly mid priced on an ROI basis. Lehigh promotes their ROI numbers. No problem with studying music - just mispriced at 70k/yr. If the schools are forcing kids into high paying majors in order to be able to pay off their student debt - well isn’t that just the best proof of how broken the tuition structure is.
If a kid wants to spend 70k or 700k/yr learning music at Lehigh then go for it.
Re: Hawk Talk #3
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:42 am
by gimpeltf
gimpeltf wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 3:13 pm
Let's be careful thinking the NIL will continue to be a place alums/boosters can make a slush fund like the old days. The concept got dumped on the NCAA midseason by court case. I've seen an article from before the season saying the NCAA will be looking to prevent indiscriminate payments like some of these are now. The intent of the concept was to allow athletes to make basically advertising money by using their likenesses from real companies (Nike/adidas/etc) There was no intent, to my knowledge, to have it used to induce kids to specific schools.
Right now it is the wild west, though.
A follow up article.
https://www.si.com/.amp/college/2023/01 ... stigations
Re: Hawk Talk #3
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:48 pm
by ngineer
As Wilde referenced, a lot of people know the price of everything and the value of nothing, and our current state of affairs reflects that.
Re: Hawk Talk #3
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 5:19 pm
by Mountain Hawk
ngineer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:48 pm
As Wilde referenced, a lot of people know the price of everything and the value of nothing, and our current state of affairs reflects that.
In order to establish value, knowledge of price is essential. I would add a couple common financial measures as well.....return on investment and internal rate of return....for the non-financial you an add in personal utility - harder to measure but good to know.
Re: Hawk Talk #3
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:31 am
by drd5748
I’ve never wasted 2 min of my time posturing about what other people majored in - no even my son’92, who had 2 majors beneath the dignity of many: govt and urban studies. Did us proud running for U.S. Senate and Gov in MA
I decided my major; he picked his. Nobody else’s vote mattered
Re: Hawk Talk #3
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 5:31 pm
by ngineer
It's amazing how many people end up working in fields in which they did not major in college.
Re: Hawk Talk #3
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 5:32 pm
by ngineer
Mountain Hawk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 5:19 pm
ngineer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:48 pm
As Wilde referenced, a lot of people know the price of everything and the value of nothing, and our current state of affairs reflects that.
In order to establish value, knowledge of price is essential. I would add a couple common financial measures as well.....return on investment and internal rate of return....for the non-financial you an add in personal utility - harder to measure but good to know.
Many things of value have no price.
Re: Hawk Talk #3
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 6:17 pm
by Richb-3
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. Galadriel
Re: Hawk Talk #3
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 6:50 pm
by legger
**** Legend became Myth and for Two and a half thousand years*****.