Many certificate programs don’t pay off, but colleges want to keep offering them anyway

Photo caption: Students in a wind energy program at Texas State Technical College. The college opted in 2011 to tie its state funding to its graduates’ earnings. Photo credit: Sarah Garland / The Hechinger Report. Article by Lilah Burke. The Hechinger Report – April 30, 2022.

Institutions are quietly resisting a proposal to strip federal funding from low-payoff programs

Vanessa Valenciano had high hopes for the certificate she earned at public Aims Community College in Colorado. After all, colleges have been advertising these kinds of credentials as the next best thing to a degree. But when Valenciano tried to get a job in the subject that she’d studied — automotive upholstery — she couldn’t. […]

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