6/3/2023 0 Comments Lower ed tressie![]() ![]() ![]() There was the for-profit college in high-end Southpark that only offered graduate degrees in business and technology. It was one of a dozen for-profit colleges in the Charlotte area, each with slightly different branding. I was an enrollment officer at the Technical College. ![]() When I met Jason, the banks were post–technology bubble but pre–global recession. As the banks went, so too went Charlotte’s economic fortunes. Its national stature, good quality of life, and strong labor markets relied significantly on the banking industry. ![]() At the time, Charlotte was a thriving urban core in the U.S. He was a local boy, born and raised in a rural suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina. When we met, Jason was in his early twenties. When I think of Jason now, I hope that he can’t say the same of my impact on him. I remember many of those students-their stories, their struggles, their daily successes-but Jason is the student who most changed my life. I worked first at a cosmetology school and later at a technical college. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, as millions of Americans entered higher education, almost 30 percent of them went to for-profit colleges, and I enrolled at least a couple hundred of those students. ![]()
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