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Unemployed Grad Sues College for Failing to Get Her a Job

Posted Aug 3, 2009 9:43 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

College graduate Trina Thompson has filed a $70,000 lawsuit that contends her school didn’t do enough to get her a job.

Thompson filed the suit against Monroe College in a Bronx court on July 24, the New York Post reports. The suit claims the school’s career office didn’t give her the leads and career advice that had been promised.

Thompson, an information-technology student, wants a refund on her $70,000 in tuition. "They have not tried hard enough to help me," Thompson wrote in the suit.

A spokesman for the college told the newspaper the suit is without merit.

Hat tip to Overlawyered.

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1.

abe
Aug 3, 2009 1:59 PM CST

law schools, YOU next!
You next, law schools!

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Esq.
Aug 3, 2009 2:36 PM CST

My law school graduating class had the same gripes.  But instead of pursuing a class action suit, we simply don’t donate anything to the school.

Our love for the school runs so deep that a whopping 20 students showed up at the 5-year reunion.

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B. McLeod
Aug 3, 2009 5:43 PM CST

Let me guess - those were the 20 who had jobs?

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Michael
Aug 4, 2009 6:23 PM CST

Lots of schools are likely culpable to some extent in perpetrating fraud based on the expectations they set for their graduates, law schools included.  If we’d end the student loan programs, or allow schools to privately extend loans but make the degrees property secured by the loans and eligible for bankruptcy (surrender the property and the note is discharged) I’d imagine many schools would end up shutting their doors.

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