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Alumna sues college because she hasn't found a job
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/ne...uate/index.html
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A recent college graduate is suing her alma mater for $72,000 -- the full cost of her tuition and then some -- because she cannot find a job.
Trina Thompson has sued her alma mater, Monroe College of New York.
Trina Thompson has sued her alma mater, Monroe College of New York.
Trina Thompson, 27, of the Bronx, graduated from New York's Monroe College in April with a bachelor of business administration degree in information technology.
On July 24, she filed suit against the college in Bronx Supreme Court, alleging that Monroe's "Office of Career Advancement did not help me with a full-time job placement. I am also suing them because of the stress I have been going through."
The college responded that it offers job-search support to all its students.
In her complaint, Thompson says she seeks $70,000 in reimbursement for her tuition and $2,000 to compensate for the stress of her three-month job search.
As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record. But Monroe's career-services department has put forth insufficient effort to help her secure employment, she claims.
"They're supposed to say, 'I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right -- can you interview this person?' They're not doing that," she said.
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Thompson said she has fulfilled her end of the job-search bargain, peppering companies listed on Monroe's e-recruiting site with cover letters, résumés and phone calls. But no more than two employers have responded to her outreach, and those leads have borne no fruit.
Her complaint adds, "The office of career advancement information technology counselor did not make sure their Monroe e-recruiting clients call their graduates that recently finished college for an interview to get a job placement. They have not tried hard enough to help me."
She suggested that Monroe's Office of Career Advancement shows preferential treatment to students with excellent grades. "They favor more toward students that got a 4.0. They help them more out with the job placement," she said.
Monroe College released a statement saying that "while it is clear that no college, especially in this economy, can guarantee employment, Monroe College remains committed to working with all its students, including Ms. Thompson, who graduated only three months ago, to prepare them for careers and to support them during their job search."
Thompson says she has not hired an attorney to represent her because she cannot afford one. When she filed her complaint, she also filed a "poor person order," which exempts her from filing fees associated with the lawsuit.
Asked whether she would advise other college graduates facing job woes to sue their alma maters, Thompson said yes.
"It doesn't make any sense: They went to school for four years, and then they come out working at McDonald's and Payless. That's not what they planned." |
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| Zombie0729 |
| yah i'd like to sue my past college too... certifications and degrees seem to be worth less and less but cost more and more? |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zombie0729
yah i'd like to sue my past college too... certifications and degrees seem to be worth less and less but cost more and more? |
me too! |
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| alan |
| hhmm good thing i took my Masters in a diff school than my University, I can sue two schools!:tongue3 |
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| Nerologic |
| quote: | Originally posted by alan
hhmm good thing i took my Masters in a diff school than my University, I can sue two schools!:tongue3 |
Wait are you shamelessly promoting again?
I cant tell.
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| mattW |
Lol, I wish her luck. It will be interesting to see what happens. Students take out massive loans that are due regardless of whether they have a job or not. Something needs to change.
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| Jim Carson |
| What a joke. Good luck sister. |
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| mattW |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jim Carson
What a joke. Good luck sister. |
Yeah, it's a real longshot. You never know though, it might depend on what the school promised. |
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| Jim Carson |
| quote: | Originally posted by mattW
Yeah, it's a real longshot. You never know though, it might depend on what the school promised. |
You never know, but she graduated 3 months ago. People have been looking for jobs in the past couple of years on average 6 months to a year. Some have waited two years before finding employment. I hope she loses. This is a waste of our court system, the judge's time, the defendants attorney's time, and abuse of the system. |
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| TSG |
| Her case was thrown out. I heard that this morning on the news. |
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| cryophonik |
2.7 GPA and it's the school's fault she can't find a job? :rolleyes: Why not just tack an additional million on to the lawsuit for not making her smarter - that's the university's fault as well, isn't it? :nervous:
My wife works in career services for a large university's law school and some of the stories she has told me about students' expectations of their office are ridiculous. Of course, they're law students, who tend to have a general mindset of "something wrong = somebody else's fault". I assume that one of her former students will be handling this dumbass'....I mean plaintiff's case. |
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