For those of you who aren’t aware, Gina Raimondo, is Rhode Islands current governor-elect. Not only is she a politician, a businesswoman, and venture capitalist, but she also happens to be MISSING.
The Unfiltered Lens contacted Gina’s office approximately eight times and spoke to several of her staff members in an attempt to schedule an interview. After being told that Governor-elect Raimondo would be both available and willing to have a short sit down with us, we never heard back
You see, as Governor-Elect, Gina Raimondo has designs on reforming CCRI. She has spoken on a multitude of changes that will directly impact the lives of students at all campuses. The most infamous of these involves making CCRI into a manufacturing center devoted to pumping out a slew of dedicated workers whose education and curricula were designed by businesses. That’s right, you heard correctly. Gina Raimondo wants to invite businesses into the school to create their own curricula for training students.
Raimondo is quoted saying “Businesses who participate in the program will have access to a talented pipeline of highly trained employees, in exchange for paying off some of their loan debt.”
Sure this sounds great, that is if you can get past the fact that her statement makes students seem like a commodity. It sounds like a cheaper education for a guaranteed job.
Yet how can this be called an education at all?
A curriculum designed by a company, is not a college education, it’s just job training. Job training that you as a student would be paying for. You would still be paying money to come to school, but a company that is carefully crafting you into the perfect little employee would design your classes. This plan does not support, or more importantly, encourage, a well-rounded education.
The incomming , ambitious governor-elect’s plans clearly place importance, not on education and higher thinking, but instead on getting a job. Yes, it’s true that every student’s goal after college is to be employed.
However, many want true careers, in fields that matter to them, not just job placement programs. We as students deserve to be valued for our minds and our individuality, not just for our ability to follow directions and be good little workers.
An interview with Governor-elect Gina Raimondo is essential. Not just so she can explain her plans but also to allow the students of CCRI to voice their concerns. If she plans to change the mission of our college and the educational possibilities it offers, then she should make the time to sit down with the students and let us have a say in our own future.
The Unfiltered Lens contacted Gina’s office approximately eight times and spoke to several of her staff members in an attempt to schedule an interview. After being told that Governor-elect Raimondo would be both available and willing to have a short sit down with us, we never heard back
You see, as Governor-Elect, Gina Raimondo has designs on reforming CCRI. She has spoken on a multitude of changes that will directly impact the lives of students at all campuses. The most infamous of these involves making CCRI into a manufacturing center devoted to pumping out a slew of dedicated workers whose education and curricula were designed by businesses. That’s right, you heard correctly. Gina Raimondo wants to invite businesses into the school to create their own curricula for training students.
Raimondo is quoted saying “Businesses who participate in the program will have access to a talented pipeline of highly trained employees, in exchange for paying off some of their loan debt.”
Sure this sounds great, that is if you can get past the fact that her statement makes students seem like a commodity. It sounds like a cheaper education for a guaranteed job.
Yet how can this be called an education at all?
A curriculum designed by a company, is not a college education, it’s just job training. Job training that you as a student would be paying for. You would still be paying money to come to school, but a company that is carefully crafting you into the perfect little employee would design your classes. This plan does not support, or more importantly, encourage, a well-rounded education.
The incomming , ambitious governor-elect’s plans clearly place importance, not on education and higher thinking, but instead on getting a job. Yes, it’s true that every student’s goal after college is to be employed.
However, many want true careers, in fields that matter to them, not just job placement programs. We as students deserve to be valued for our minds and our individuality, not just for our ability to follow directions and be good little workers.
An interview with Governor-elect Gina Raimondo is essential. Not just so she can explain her plans but also to allow the students of CCRI to voice their concerns. If she plans to change the mission of our college and the educational possibilities it offers, then she should make the time to sit down with the students and let us have a say in our own future.