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Jumping in on the tuition piece, it's possible to get a rough cut of
tuition and fees from the National Center for Education Statistics
site. All schools receiving federal Title IV aid are required to
report on costs annually, and will soon be required (as a result of
the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act which amended the Higher
Education Act of 1965) to make a net price calculator on their web
sites. <br>
<br>
ITT Wyoming's data are at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/col_info_popup.asp?ID=170417">http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/col_info_popup.asp?ID=170417</a> and
Davenport's are at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/col_info_popup.asp?ID=169479">http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/col_info_popup.asp?ID=169479</a>. The
NCES College Navigator, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/">http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/</a> ,
enables searching for schools using myriad criteria.<br>
<br>
I am admittedly biased having come from a public school background
(and just beginning the M.S. in Information Assurance program at
Davenport), but I feel students are better served by public (like
GRCC) and private non-profit institutions (such as Davenport) than
by for-profit proprietary institutions like ITT. Costs at publics
and non-profits are typically lower and the lack of a profit motive
makes it less likely that students are sold a bill of goods, as it
were, about job prospects for a given curriculum.<br>
<br>
While new to the area, I have seen evidence of Linux in GRCC's
course offerings--and public two year colleges are a less expensive
place to get started on a baccalaureate degree. I'm not sure what
community college(s) serve Kalamazoo, though. The suggestions of
taking advantage of Linux's open source nature to play with it
yourself are great, too -- today's distributions make it dead easy
to create a dual boot system and to try Linux as your "daily driver"
which in and of itself will facilitate learning as you solve
day-to-day issues that arise from that use.<br>
<br>
I hope some of this helps with your decision and I wish you the best
of luck in your studies!<br>
<br>
Michael Passer<br>
<br>
On 2/22/2011 6:58 AM, Jonathon Klobucar wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:F56E3005-1F0B-4357-B9B8-A11B4899543B@gmail.com"
type="cite"><br>
<div>
<div>On Feb 22, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Michael Mol wrote:</div>
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
<blockquote type="cite">
<div>On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:43 PM, mooselikebriard <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:moosebriard@gmail.com">moosebriard@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">It appears that Davenport is about
$11,500/year (in seat, 12 cr<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">hr/semester.) ITT does not
advertise their tuition rates, but the best of<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">what I can find is around $44,000
for two years, or twice as much per year<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">Seems odd to avoid publishing
tuition rates which is part of my apprehension<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">surrounding ITT. Thanks for the
Davenport idea. They never occurred to me<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">and they have a campus here in Kzoo
where I live.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">I observe most institutions have one
or two Unix/Linux classes in their BS<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">programs. Where can a person get
schooled in those disciplines? I am<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">relatively new to the Linux world
and am finding myself in some amount of<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">awe at it's capability. I use it
frequently at my job to salvage Windows<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">machines which to me says a lot
(about Linux). I have 20 years of teaching<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">myself Windows......a speedier route
to learn Linux would be great.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
There are a lot of certification programs out there which
compress<br>
semester-long courses into one-week or three-day hands-on
runs.</div>
</blockquote>
<div><br>
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<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">linux+ is
a place to start if you really really want a cert.</font></div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div>At this stage, if you're considering spending the coin to
go back to<br>
school for a couple years, consider spending that same coin
on a round<br>
of certs and workshops. In the computer field, cert programs
are<br>
almost certainly going to be more up-to-speed on the
industry than<br>
college courses. (I've got an acquaintance who's taking a
class<br>
involving Fedora who has been having difficulty because the
version of<br>
Fedora they're using came out after their textbook)<br>
<br>
Also, the best way to learn to do anything right is to eat
your own<br>
dogfood the way the cat learned to swim*. Back up your
Windows<br>
install, wipe your system, install Linux and go to town
learning how<br>
to use it.<br>
<br>
Finally, there are a lot of good general knowledge books
available on<br>
just about any subject you want to pick up.<br>
<br>
Or take the slightly less insane route and wean yourself
more slowly. :)<br>
<br>
* Don't you just _love_ mixed metaphors?<br>
<br>
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