Hats off to Starbucks

[h0llywood]

Starbucks offers workers free college tuition

 

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/16/starbucks-free-college-tuition/10569971/

 

 

Starbucks employees nationwide will be eligible for a free college education through Arizona State University's online program beginning this fall.

 

The new initiative, touted as the first of its kind, will allow many of Starbucks' 135,000 workers to graduate debt free from ASU with no requirement to repay or stay on with the company. The funding will come from a partnership between ASU and Starbucks.

 

 

 

Under the program, Starbucks employees who work at least 20 hours a week will receive full tuition reimbursement if they enroll in ASU's online program as juniors or seniors.

 

Kudos to Starbucks for offering tuition without tying up an employee to the company. Talk about positive Corporate Social Responsibility (I put in the acronym C-S-R but for some reason, the autospell changed it). 

 

Thoughts on the new program?

[Mayor Qumiby]

Well at least I know my 4 dollar coffee is going to pay for something good.

[Captroop]

Might be the wave of the future. With returns on higher education diminishing, tuition rates increasing, and online accredited universities getting more respectable, I wouldn't be surprised if more people elect to enter the workforce after high school, go to community college for 2 years, and then enroll in a degree program at an online university on tuition reimbursement.

[pstall]

This is the future. Free markets can still work. If some let them.

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[Jase]

selling SBUX

[pstall]

Colleges have been at a bubble the last few yrs and add the consolidation of conferences annnnd the push to pay athletes I can see the NCAA blowing up in 5 yrs.

We then have an apprenticeship program second to none.

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