OT- Anyone here attended Wayne State College?

[bomber89]

Would like to know your thoughts on the college and their ability to place graduates. Seems like it's one of the least expensive 4 year college's in Nebraska & they offer Masters as well.

Any info would be much appreciated .

 

[walnut creek]

My wife has taught at WSC in the Business Department since 1977. She loves what she does and has placed a number of business education teachers throughout the region in the high school teaching profession.

She now has a number of business major kids that coming back for education degrees. They find that the Box store world has little regard for nights or weekends. Plus they don't pay very well.

You won't get lost in a 3,000 student Auditorium History class cuz they don't exist. Not will you be stuck with foreign grad students pretending to teach in a research institution setting.

 

[SODHUSKER]

Yes. Played football there 40 years ago. Nice small school!

 

[SPbObRT]

Good school great food at the max good atmosphere fun little college

 

[Cloud@Heart]

I sent a few of my students there for the RHOP program.... Rural medicine... And it worked out very well for them!

 

[ftball95]

My 2 younger brothers went there, one for physical therapy and the other for accounting, around 8 years ago, never heard either one of them say anything bad about the college.

 

[DonlugoQ]

My wife has taught at WSC in the Business Department since 1977. She loves what she does and has placed a number of business education teachers throughout the region in the high school teaching profession.

She now has a number of business major kids that coming back for education degrees. They find that the Box store world has little regard for nights or weekends. Plus they don't pay very well.

You won't get lost in a 3,000 student Auditorium History class cuz they don't exist. Not will you be stuck with foreign grad students pretending to teach in a research institution setting.

I was one of those that got a business degree and came back a few years later to get an endorsement to teach high school business. Your wife was great to work with!

 

[schuele]

Yes. Played football there 40 years ago. Nice small school!

Del Stoltenberg coaching there then?

 

[kerpal_68]

I've been there to drink and that was always fun. I can't help you on the academic side.

 

[SODHUSKER]

Del Stoltenberg coaching there then?

Yes

 

[jrhuskerdad]

My wife has taught at WSC in the Business Department since 1977. She loves what she does and has placed a number of business education teachers throughout the region in the high school teaching profession.

She now has a number of business major kids that coming back for education degrees. They find that the Box store world has little regard for nights or weekends. Plus they don't pay very well.

You won't get lost in a 3,000 student Auditorium History class cuz they don't exist. Not will you be stuck with foreign grad students pretending to teach in a research institution setting.

This is the kind of talk that scares people who live in small town settings from getting out and seeing the world. I know, because I was a small town Nebraska boy who was told the same thing from people who lived their whole lives within a 50 mile radius. Had I listened, I never would have lived up to my potential of becoming a professor at a B1G university. Parents, encourage your kids to leave and find themselves. Many will find their way right back to the place from which they came; the journey to finding home, wherever it ends up being, is very important. Unfortunately, many of us realize we need to take this journey too late in life.

I think you are gravely mistaken about "foreign grad students". At major research institutions the vast majority of classes are taught by faculty members with PhDs, not graduate students. Graduate students primarily serve in teaching assistant roles. The more important point, though, is that there are plenty of domestic faculty at all levels of education and types of institutions who don't teach well. It has nothing to do with being foreign. In fact, students should have the opportunity to listen to and learn from people who have different life experiences. I guarantee that at some point in one's collegiate experience this insight will be far greater than any textbook knowledge presented in a class.

 

[Cloud@Heart]

This is the kind of talk that scares people who live in small town settings from getting out and seeing the world. I know, because I was a small town Nebraska boy who was told the same thing from people who lived their whole lives within a 50 mile radius. Had I listened, I never would have lived up to my potential of becoming a professor at a B1G university. Parents, encourage your kids to leave and find themselves. Many will find their way right back to the place from which they came; the journey to finding home, wherever it ends up being, is very important. Unfortunately, many of us realize we need to take this journey too late in life.

I think you are gravely mistaken about "foreign grad students". At major research institutions the vast majority of classes are taught by faculty members with PhDs, not graduate students. Graduate students primarily serve in teaching assistant roles. The more important point, though, is that there are plenty of domestic faculty at all levels of education and types of institutions who don't teach well. It has nothing to do with being foreign. In fact, students should have the opportunity to listen to and learn from people who have different life experiences. I guarantee that at some point in one's collegiate experience this insight will be far greater than any textbook knowledge presented in a class.

Off Topic POST of the Week Nomination!

 

[JohnRossEwing]

This is the kind of talk that scares people who live in small town settings from getting out and seeing the world. I know, because I was a small town Nebraska boy who was told the same thing from people who lived their whole lives within a 50 mile radius. Had I listened, I never would have lived up to my potential of becoming a professor at a B1G university. Parents, encourage your kids to leave and find themselves. Many will find their way right back to the place from which they came; the journey to finding home, wherever it ends up being, is very important. Unfortunately, many of us realize we need to take this journey too late in life.

I think you are gravely mistaken about "foreign grad students". At major research institutions the vast majority of classes are taught by faculty members with PhDs, not graduate students. Graduate students primarily serve in teaching assistant roles. The more important point, though, is that there are plenty of domestic faculty at all levels of education and types of institutions who don't teach well. It has nothing to do with being foreign. In fact, students should have the opportunity to listen to and learn from people who have different life experiences. I guarantee that at some point in one's collegiate experience this insight will be far greater than any textbook knowledge presented in a class.

What do you teach?

 

[walnut creek]

This is the kind of talk that scares people who live in small town settings from getting out and seeing the world. I know, because I was a small town Nebraska boy who was told the same thing from people who lived their whole lives within a 50 mile radius. Had I listened, I never would have lived up to my potential of becoming a professor at a B1G university. Parents, encourage your kids to leave and find themselves. Many will find their way right back to the place from which they came; the journey to finding home, wherever it ends up being, is very important. Unfortunately, many of us realize we need to take this journey too late in life.

I think you are gravely mistaken about "foreign grad students". At major research institutions the vast majority of classes are taught by faculty members with PhDs, not graduate students. Graduate students primarily serve in teaching assistant roles. The more important point, though, is that there are plenty of domestic faculty at all levels of education and types of institutions who don't teach well. It has nothing to do with being foreign. In fact, students should have the opportunity to listen to and learn from people who have different life experiences. I guarantee that at some point in one's collegiate experience this insight will be far greater than any textbook knowledge presented in a class.

Nothing to be scared about here. My point is and was that if you want a "teaching" setting a smaller non research institution has some advantages. These include professors who actually teach and do not have young staff with limited experience be the actual teachers. The professors have to bring in research dollars and teaching is secondary. Yes and sometimes the English language is a challenge for some of the instructors.

My daughter is in at the University of Colorado working on a doctoral in Engineering. She has had no problem with the journey. She has been to over 50 foreign countries and comes from small town Wayne, Nebraska.

Quite frankly where you obtain your undergraduate isn't all that critical. You get strong grades and do well on placement tests the graduate world is available at the larger institutions.

 

[jrhuskerdad]

What do you teach?

Plant biology, but I primarily have a research appointment

 

[jrhuskerdad]

Nothing to be scared about here. My point is and was that if you want a "teaching" setting a smaller non research institution has some advantages. These include professors who actually teach and do not have young staff with limited experience be the actual teachers. The professors have to bring in research dollars and teaching is secondary. Yes and sometimes the English language is a challenge for some of the instructors.

My daughter is in at the University of Colorado working on a doctoral in Engineering. She has had no problem with the journey. She has been to over 50 foreign countries and comes from small town Wayne, Nebraska.

Quite frankly where you obtain your undergraduate isn't all that critical. You get strong grades and do well on placement tests the graduate world is available at the larger institutions.

I agree with this

 

[WSC72]

Great school, 3 family members graduated from there and all have done extremely well after graduation.

 

[Asjohn01]

I went there for.... *cough* 6 years 04-10 and I liked it a lot...went to Millard north in High School and it was a lot different. Does not give you a "higher education" feel, but is small enough for you to know a lot of people and do a lot of things. Kind of depends on what your goals are. The teachers are very supportive and willing to help any way they can, but pretty much turns into a ghost town during the weekends. A lot of people go back home to the smaller towns. When I was there not a lot of Omaha people so they called it a suitcase college. I played rugby and highly suggest it as games are on the weekends and people stick around. The education was good but felt a lot like high school 2.0...classes are so small that when you missed them you saw the teacher walking around campus they would notice you ( hence the 6 years) but some say that is accountability. I visited University of Missouri with a friend and you can easily tell the difference. Decent price, really good teachers that care.