Microsoft Designs a School :(

[Ashley Weed]

I actually attended a corporate funded college within Penn State. The college of IST is funded by numerous fortune 500 companies, and the principles that are taught within the college are to mold the perfect employee for the world that we live in today. I do not at all regret this action, as it was an amazing experience having everything available first-priority from all sponsoring companies. One additional attribute of such an environment is the companies automatically hiring the employee that was created for them by the program that they created.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

I personally don't like corporate funded higher education. Mostly because I don't believe they offer as good an education as one that's been set for 100+ years. There are 2 corporate funded schools here in the QCA. Hamilton Technical College and Kaplan University. Both of them offer the same things, mainly computers, CAD, CNA, and paralegal stuff. But at an expensive price. A friend of mine went to Hamilton to get his CAD degree and didn't think it was worth his time and money. He got his degree but they didn't help him find a job and they didn't teach him much of anything but CAD. That last part could be good but not in the general sense. Good for a quick education I guess.

It would be nice to go to that school. The students have an advantage with the technology at their fingertips. Especially since it's in a low-income area. Many of the students have indefinitely been given a second chance at education because Microsoft took on this endeavour. Now if only Microsoft would have paid for it.