Are Career Services at a University necessary?

When I worked at New Jersey City University in Jersey City the provost, deans, vice presidents, vice president of human resources, and others decided to eliminate the only professional staff position in career services, calling it a layoff. The definition of a layoff is a lack of work, or that the position is obsolete or no longer needed. (Even though hundreds of students every semester met with a career counselor for help with various career issues). Do you agree that providing career services to students at a college or university is not necessary? * I agree, it's ok to let students pay tuition/fees and figure out career issues on their own. * I disagree, career counselors should be available to assist college students.

People who use big words...

People use words to make themselves sound more important than they really are. When I worked at NJCU a "school of business" already existed, with majors such as accounting, management, and finance. Then when the university president decided to spend millions of NJ taxpayer dollars to lease a building in downtown Jersey City, and move offices and classes for the school of business to that location, the guy who was the Dean of the school of business changed his title to "Founding Dean" of the school of business. Just because you moved your operations to a new location doesn't mean that you "founded" a new "school of business." It just means that you're in a different building. Yet everywhere it was noted that the person's title was not just "Dean" but "Founding Dean." Instead making a big deal about job titles maybe make a big deal about how your President was wasting money leading to a financial crisis, and how your university is being dissolved with the campus becoming another state university.

University administrators wanted to spend taxpayer money on "space consultants"

When I worked at NJCU and they were in the midst of a hundred million dollar financial crisis, the vice president of administration and finance said he was going to hire "space consultants" to advise the university on the best use of the "space" in their buildings. How bizarre. The former president put the university into hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, and her vice presidents and board of trustees let it happen without saying anything, and then they're going to spend money to have someone else tell them how to best use the "space" on their own campus? Phew. This after they were begging the state of New Jersey to give them more of taxpayers' money to bail them out of the financial crisis. All the people who run this colleges with their PhD's, and they can't figure out themselves how to best utilize the buildings on their own campus?