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From: stern@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (harold a stern)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Five-year plan (was What is Computer Science?)
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Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 10:08:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 10:08:53 1987
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References: <665@hubcap.UUCP> <191@wright.EDU> <3447@ames.arpa>
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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>In article <191@wright.EDU> jsloan@wright.EDU (John Sloan) writes:
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>>I think most of us would agree that a five year program is a good idea.
>>Indeed, professional engineering schools have done it, with success.

   This topic came up at MIT a year ago at a forum to discuss changes
in engineering education. There were several hundred students in attendance,
and the overwhelming opinion (myself included) was that a five-year program
is a great idea _in theory_, but who is going to pay the extra $18K per 
student to do it? You cannot reasonably expect students, many of whom 
graduate with tens of thousands of dollars in loans to pay off after four
years, to foot the bill for a fifth.

harold a. stern  <stern@ge-crd.arpa>
room k1-5c8, ge corporate r&d center
p.o. box 8, schenectady, ny 12301