Sue This School? Should a College Pay When a Grad Can't Find a Job?

This author says, "Yes." We've all seen the headlines about the New York woman who is suing her alma mater for $70,000 because she could not find a job after graduating. Mark Gimein, writing in a Slate blog, examines the actual situation "on the ground: and suggests that . . . "the more you know about Thompson and the school she's suing, the more likely it is that you might start thinking that whatever her chances of winning in court, she's right. The story of Thompson's suit isn't a one-liner about a grad too naive to know that graduating from college doesn't guarantee a job. It's a story about what 'college' means and about marginal, for-profit "colleges" that squeeze four years of fees from their students and leave them with all the debt and little of the education or prospects that they counted on."