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KEEP COMPUTER ART AND PUBLISHING AT RIDGEWATER COLLEGE-WILLMAR CAMPUS
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December 2, 2013
The stories coming in from students forced to choose between dropping out or rushing their degree are heartbreaking. Post this link on your Facebook page today to keep the pressure on the department. Email your department head and demand they give us until the end of 2015 to graduate properly.
December 2, 2013
The momentum behind this push proves that we refuse to accept this timeline for our degrees. Post the link to your Facebook feed right now. Email your representative to demand they pressure the department for a full extension.
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That's right. If we were given this as a problem in one of our CIT classes and we gave "Close the program, send out 1 email, offer 1 year to finish and no additional help" as a solution... That solution would have been given minimum points.
I just started the CIT program this semester, Fall 2013. There is no way I will be able to finish all the courses in the given time, by 2014. It is a great concern of mine because I have worked very hard to get where I am to be stuck dead in my tracks by the decisions of WKU to help newer students, while disabling the other students to finish their degrees that they initially applied for. It honestly doesn't make any sense.
I had planned on attending WKU in the fall of 2014 as a 2+2 student once my AAS was finished. Now the CIT program is mothballed, and I'm forced to look for elsewhere for alternative programs. Best I can tell, the much-less-desirable "Systems Management" program they're advertising as a replacement for CIT, is not a 100%-online program. So it does me no good. I'm really disappointed by this. This was a disservice to current and future students.
I only have 30 hours of CIT 400 classes and 2 CIT 300 classes left. I just need a year and a half left to finishlass
CIT Students already pay a premium tuition for distance learning rates. I could NOT have attempted a bachelors program in the "traditional" manner due to work and family obligations. CIT is more on par with the technical work environment that CS or CIS. CS is over glorified and has this universal appearance of "the IT standard" and it's NOT! CS is heavily focused on programming and ignorant to other aspects of IT that are often much better IT skills for the real workforce. CIS is decent as a "catch all" but the management focus leaves IT mastery off the table. CIT offers it all; networking, programming, Windows client and server management, security, Linux, and IT business management. I am extremely happy that I am graduating this Spring and luckily am not affected directly other than my degree will become a piece of paper for an education field that doesn't exist. If they are going to proceed with the program cut then they need to stop these ridiculously expensive projects and focus on educating this generation. If this does happen they need to modify CS/CIS to have online offerings for EVERY class and expand the current offerings to cover a wider range of IT and allow students to cater their education to their desired skill set.
I think this is terrible decision to cancel such a great program for all those who cannot physically attend a university in person.
Agreed. Something else to think about is that several companies send out invites to CIT program students for jobs and internships and have done so here in the past. But without a CIT program, just some classes, what company will waste the time to send such invites to a school who doesn't have the program and as a result students who may have had a chance to get a job in the field of their choosing will never get that opportunity.
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
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Updates
December 2, 2013
The stories coming in from students forced to choose between dropping out or rushing their degree are heartbreaking. Post this link on your Facebook page today to keep the pressure on the department. Email your department head and demand they give us until the end of 2015 to graduate properly.
December 2, 2013
The momentum behind this push proves that we refuse to accept this timeline for our degrees. Post the link to your Facebook feed right now. Email your representative to demand they pressure the department for a full extension.
27 Comments
I live and work full time in a ruraI area and have a family. Taking classes part-time online is my only option. When I found the 2+2 program at WKU a few years back I had finally found a way to get a real degree from a real university. I just need more time.
That's right. If we were given this as a problem in one of our CIT classes and we gave "Close the program, send out 1 email, offer 1 year to finish and no additional help" as a solution... That solution would have been given minimum points.
I just started the CIT program this semester, Fall 2013. There is no way I will be able to finish all the courses in the given time, by 2014. It is a great concern of mine because I have worked very hard to get where I am to be stuck dead in my tracks by the decisions of WKU to help newer students, while disabling the other students to finish their degrees that they initially applied for. It honestly doesn't make any sense.
I had planned on attending WKU in the fall of 2014 as a 2+2 student once my AAS was finished. Now the CIT program is mothballed, and I'm forced to look for elsewhere for alternative programs. Best I can tell, the much-less-desirable "Systems Management" program they're advertising as a replacement for CIT, is not a 100%-online program. So it does me no good. I'm really disappointed by this. This was a disservice to current and future students.
I only have 30 hours of CIT 400 classes and 2 CIT 300 classes left. I just need a year and a half left to finishlass
CIT Students already pay a premium tuition for distance learning rates. I could NOT have attempted a bachelors program in the "traditional" manner due to work and family obligations. CIT is more on par with the technical work environment that CS or CIS. CS is over glorified and has this universal appearance of "the IT standard" and it's NOT! CS is heavily focused on programming and ignorant to other aspects of IT that are often much better IT skills for the real workforce. CIS is decent as a "catch all" but the management focus leaves IT mastery off the table. CIT offers it all; networking, programming, Windows client and server management, security, Linux, and IT business management. I am extremely happy that I am graduating this Spring and luckily am not affected directly other than my degree will become a piece of paper for an education field that doesn't exist. If they are going to proceed with the program cut then they need to stop these ridiculously expensive projects and focus on educating this generation. If this does happen they need to modify CS/CIS to have online offerings for EVERY class and expand the current offerings to cover a wider range of IT and allow students to cater their education to their desired skill set.
I think this is terrible decision to cancel such a great program for all those who cannot physically attend a university in person.
Agreed. Something else to think about is that several companies send out invites to CIT program students for jobs and internships and have done so here in the past. But without a CIT program, just some classes, what company will waste the time to send such invites to a school who doesn't have the program and as a result students who may have had a chance to get a job in the field of their choosing will never get that opportunity.
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I live and work full time in a ruraI area and have a family. Taking classes part-time online is my only option. When I found the 2+2 program at WKU a few years back I had finally found a way to get a real degree from a real university. I just need more time.