Going to college in The Coachella Valley is very different than going to college somewhere else. Here are just eight examples:
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Going to college in The Coachella Valley is very different than going to college somewhere else. Here are just eight examples:
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The author seems to be conflating both COD and CSU San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus.
Please see below:
1. CSUSB rarely has full classes and most students are able to graduate within 2 years with their BA after being admitted and finishing their GEs at COD. COD is the campus that has issues with over enrollment and students not being able to get into the classes they need.
2. The average age at CSUSB, which is made up of about 900 students, is mid-20s. Some students are older (the campus offers Masters degrees, certificate programs, credential program, and a doctoral degree), but there are many 18-year old freshman on campus, as well. COD, serving 20,000, has an average age that is much older.
3. The swap meet is on the campus of COD, not CSUSB Palm Desert Campus.
4. Most students at CSUSB Palm Desert Campus knows that the school mascot is the Coyote. Go Yotes!
5. Classes are held at CSUSB Palm Desert Campus throughout the day.
Jay, wow that is quite a serious tone, thank you for setting the record straight!
It’s.a.joke!
Title of the article is “Going to College in The Coachella Valley vs. Going to College Somewhere Else”
SO it is appropriate for “the author: to be “conflating” COD and CSUSBPDC
Feeling dumb now?
Actually, Tony, no, I don’t feel dumb.
Things like this article helping to contributing to the brain drain here in the Coachella Valley. Students stay, usually, in the area in which they go to school and contribute to the economy. This article discourages people from staying in the desert.
I would hate for a junior or senior high school student to see thus and think
it’s true and not apply to CSUSB PDC just because some radio dj turned journalist thought it was funny. If he was so involved in the community and actually cared, he wouldn’t have written this knowing all the facts and figures about education in thus valley.
As a graduate of CSUSB PDC, I can attest that this is the experience of many who attend college in The Coachella Valley. As far as facts and figures go, I know first hand what it is like to attend COD and CSUSB PDC – I even have a fancy diploma from CSUSB PDC.
While I admire your passion for keeping young people in town to go to school, I really do not feel this article is going to be the thing that leads them away.
If you are truly passionate about what is driving young people out of town to attend school, do not be so quick to dismiss pieces like this that have clearly caught the attention of those who have seen first hand that being young is seen as almost being a crime in The Coachella Valley (under 30-year-olds can not even rent vacation homes in Rancho Mirage).
Nobody wants a “brain drain” of young people in The Coachella Valley – but there is a lack of good paying jobs for young people, there is nothing for young people to do, the old people treat youth like crap, & rent is crazy expensive in this town. Maybe these things should be addressed, but then what would I know, I am only some “radio dj turned journalist”
I am also a graduate of CSUSB Palm Desert Campus and things have certainly been changing there in the last couple of years.
I’m not saying that this article will be the only thing that will lead them away but it will certainly affect decisions and if it affects just one decision, than that is one too many.
I do agree with you about the assertion about being under 30 years old in the valley…I am in that age group, as well. Rent and treatment from older folks are both valid issues. However, CSUSB PDC is also trying to heal that divide by providing continuing education courses on campus for older folks which allows them contact with younger people. Organizations and institutions can only do so much; it is up to people, also, to change the culture.
In regards to the lack of good paying jobs, that is part of the point in having CSUSB have a branch campus out here in the desert. Knowledge about business will help bring about new businesses and help old businesses to continue. Knowledge of communications and English will assist local radio stations and local newspapers in their respective missions. Liberal studies and other subjects will allow for the development of locally grown teachers for the three school districts in the Coachella Valley instead of having to import them from other places. At the same time, it is not the university’s responsibility to create good jobs. That responsibility falls on the industries that do exist out here and on those students who will enter the workforce after receiving their degree.
I still believe, though, that you are misrepresenting the university. Most of the things you mention in regards to attending school here in the desert pertain to only one institution, not two.
Jay,
First, “some radio dj turned journalist” kind of strikes a cord with me – it is a tad bit disrespectful. Casey’s opinion is shared by a lot of the younger population and I hear it almost everyday at my job (I am an instructor at COD). That said, being an instructor at COD, i know first hand that students regard this institution as lame, most can’t wait to leave the desert and yes, a lot of them work in restaurants at night catering to the seasonal snowbirds (as I did when I went to COD). I am also from the Coachella Valley. I attended Cathedral city Middle and high school back in the 90s. With a Master’s degree in hand, there really isn’t that much opportunity for me.
“Knowledge of communications and English will assist local radio stations and local newspapers in their respective missions.” You’re kidding right? In order to increase profit margins, local radio stations have been firing awesome LOCAL dj’s (Like Casey) for some crappy “ready made” radio shows hoping it will attract more listeners. The Desert Sun has been doing the same thing, they recently partnered with USA TODAY so they could publish more stories from them WITHOUT paying for their own writers and journalists (more non-local news in the paper = less local news). I addition, they have been keeping on staff mostly part time writers so they can justify paying them peanuts. I have a lot more to say about this…….
Again, as an instructor at COD perhaps I should be insulted by Casey’s article but there is a lot of truth to it AND, this piece is also meant to be funny. Funny as in “haha”, not funny as in “what, no he didn’t????”