Tuesday, May 23, 2006

What is with these colleges?

A while back I posted a list of my favorite college names that I've encountered while working my job at Houghton Mifflin. From Pillsbury Baptist Bible College to Defiance College to Chief Dull Knife College to the Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Services, a lot of these college names have made me chuckle or even wince.

Now I have a new issue to raise. I'm starting to wonder once the students get inside these huge edifices with these shrink professors, what are they learning about? At West Central Technical College in Georgia, they have an actual program called the Fatherhood Initiative Program. How good does that look on a resume? You're an employer trying to hire someone for a position, you're sifting through about 50 resumes.
What did these guys study in college? Let's see here... Engineering, this one, Speech Communiation, hmm, Biology, not bad, Social Work, oh good, Foreign Languages, and one more here, the Father Initiative Program.

What kind of job are you going to get after studying in the Father Initiative Program. A porn star? A regular on Jerry Springer? Man, and just think about that homework!

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