well now, maybe you should get out more often or go exploring. Depends on yer definition of a community college also..
There is a far eastern suburbia branch of University of Cincinnati about 8 miles farther east of me. It is really a very excellent branch withouit all the crap from the downtown cincinnati main campus. Many of the professors here are also employed by large corporations with lots of experience in the fields they actually are teaching and opening students minds to.
Then there are some smaller but good community colleges that are not affiliated with a major brand instution of lower learning.
UNless one is planning on getting involved with wanting to be some kind of ladder chaser at a mega corporation where stupidity reigns supreme, there isn;t any need to go there. I actually took time out of my day to do the homework for a friend of mine who wanted an MBA at Xavier when he was in his late 40's. WHY??? He already bankrupted his grandfather and father's business of more than 65 years. Who did he think was going to hire him in any kind of upper management role?
You can get a sound, more personal one on one teaching at a much smaller community college and your first four years are going to be just as good as anyone else's.
Go online and work on your higher degrees if ya must.. My daughter who teaches high school cannot go any higher in their pay scale. I told her to consider teaching as an adjunct professor at a Christian UNiversity which we have a fairly large one less than an hour away.
She may have to pick up one or two more courses to get her PHD but no biggie. She is brilliant in sciences as much my lawyer daughter in Law.
I have not found in my experiences that attending a big giant university made someone from there better, smarter, more ambitious than myself or others.
If you just want name recognition, then that is another story.. WHAT do most of the degrees really mean anyway?
You attended school, said what the teacher wanted you to and you passed and got you a diploma that says you went there.
The serious studies are at the Doctoral level with real world hands on experiences by some really smart people.
At least that is what I have found. Anyone can be a parrot. It is the thinking and applications of scientific principles and laws and knowing them without having to guess that to me defines and separates the average from the truly talented.. and may I add also beside "talented", "driven to excel".
So, that is my perspective and where I am looking at this from. Your mileage may differ and vary and its okay. we all have different experiences.. I will say the most highly intelligent man I ever met and spent time with to the point I was in absolute awe and dumbstruck was an Israeli Physicist who was visiting when I was early in my engineering carreer and I had the privilege to take him around and be with for a day. What a brilliant mind..
Oh well. Quite some years ago I am afraid..
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