Apple Launches First-Generation College Student Mentorship Program (macrumors.com) 21
Apple this month announced a new Launch@Apple mentorship program that's designed for first-generation college students, with the program set to launch in early 2021. From a report: According to a PDF describing Launch@Apple, it is aimed at first-generation college freshmen and sophomores who are majoring in finance, mathematics, economics, business, data analytics, and accounting. It matches college students one-on-one with Apple mentors who are able to provide resources for learning and opportunities for professional growth, with the possibility of job shadowing, paid externships, and paid internships. Apple has not publicly announced Launch@Apple, and it's not entirely clear how the word is being spread. MyHealthyApple shared details this morning, and last week, a LinkedIn post highlighted the program. Ahead of when Launch begins in early 2021, Apple is accepting applications from students with a wide range of GPAs.
Re: (Score:1)
Actually, I'm fairly sure the SJWs will be angered by this. What, no philosophy majors? Why, who will ponder the ethics of AI?! We all know those dumb "tech bros" can't! No gender studies? Good luck, probably Apple will accidentally release a product that will enslave women. And the list goes on.
Some people have this romantic notion that e.g. a cultural anthropologist will let you design better products that work both for people in New York and in some undiscovered village in Brazil. It's all nonsense. I me
Re: (Score:2)
Why would Slack Jawed Whites have a problem with this. There are plenty enough of them who could use a good mentoring program.
Re: Social Justice For The Win! (Score:4, Interesting)
Uum, what is it with the US and that ridiculous STEM/non-STEM partisanship?
There's a difference between an abstract post-modernist interpretation dance theater major and an art major who goes on to create works that give people major life insights and the mental toolkit to come up with groundbreaking things in the first place. ... *actual art* ... is a form of communication. And ediucation.
Because ultimately, art
Itsfield of operation just is those emotional and big-picture ideas that STEM could never handle because it can onlynhandle sharp points, and without which, STEM would only consist of re-inventing the perfect oil lamp and porting Linux to the N64.
Saying it is useless because there is so much fake art out there is like saying STEM is useless because all they do it play the Mario theme on all the things and create machines for reproducing art without creativity.
Ditto for social sciences. Of course there is sexist-narcissist crap like "gender studies" and other navel gazing nonsense.
But actual social sciences is about improving the interaction between us social human beings. Whichy frankly, is vastly more important than building the next iDildo or flying to Mars. (And that's saying something, because flying to Mars is awesome.)
Don't separate by STEM and non-STEM.
Separate by real science and useless bullshit.
Because frankly... to say this on an article about doing STEM for APPLE, ... of all things maximally useless and going into the negative (=harmful) you could do in those fields...!
Re: Social Justice For The Win! (Score:2)
Oh, just noticed you were criticizing them backing telephone sanitizers and other bullshit jobs, instead of the usual I expected around here.
Nevermind then.
Apple PR Machine For The Win! (Score:2)
There is no possible way that they can mentor enough kids to matter to even a trivial fraction of this.
This news release is PR for Apple, nothing more and nothing less.
Good (Score:4, Interesting)
Apple has billions to blow, this sounds like a good hit or miss deal. It's true there may be people from poor backgrounds who could use this sort of boost to find their potential. It's about rolling more dice. When you have more money you can bet on more horses and broaden the types of horses you bet on. That's what this is .. they want to see if they might get lucky.
Re:Good (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: (Score:3)
So what? If it helps both parties that's good. Later on people can switch. Not like people would stay stuck to something if it sucks.
Re: (Score:2)
Lol, have you met people? Aside from CS / SE majors, people don't "switch". They are forced into a new paradigm, with a gun pointed at their heads, that's how they "switch".
Asking a teacher to switch to Linux or Windows is seen in the same light as working in the salt mines...
Re: (Score:2)
I find that poorer people often have Apple gear because it gets handed down to them. Because Apple supports it for a relatively long time they can still use an old iPhone or iPad.
Re:Good (Score:4, Interesting)
Sounds like a solid "miss" to me. Isn't "resources for learning and opportunities for professional growth" the reason why they are taking on decades worth of debt to go to a university in the first place? This seems to pointedly exclude lower-budget community colleges offering 2-year degrees, the kind with students who would most benefit from these types of programs. I was a first-generation college student at one time, and this program would have completely passed me over.
I'd like to know how they qualify these "Apple Mentors", who come in several years after the mid-teens when kids could really use a mentor. Is it the same way they qualify the "Geniuses" who work at their stores, tirelessly tugging you to buy another $1000 phone every year?
Re: (Score:2)
This seems to pointedly exclude lower-budget community colleges offering 2-year degrees, the kind with students who would most benefit from these types of programs.
Naturally Apple is trying to maximize their benefit. They have identified the kinds of schools where the kinds of people with the kinds of attitudes they favor come from, and they are taking steps to produce more of those people.
The total benefit to society is small, but it probably will be beneficial to society even if it doesn't help those who need help the most, so it's hard for me to get upset.
Training (Score:2)
Corps used to train their people and now it's at an all time low as the MBAs took over and externalize everything possible (except themselves naturally.)
Internal training should go up; apparently, they are not happy with the graduates in those areas that they hiring and this is a way to change things without directly training their own employees like used to happen generations ago.... when employees might actually have a shot at staying in a corp for life with some incentive to be loyal.
How about they hir
So your personal brainwasher. (Score:4, Funny)
So you learn to hail Apple at all times.
Thanks, but I already tried prostitution.