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Struggling Dowling College announces it is closing down
AP ^ | May 31, 2016 | Staff

Posted on 06/01/2016 10:32:02 AM PDT by C19fan

A struggling liberal arts college that had a striking waterfront campus but fewer and fewer students is closing its doors.

Dowling College President Albert Inserra said Tuesday the college, on eastern Long Island, will stop operating at the end of the week. He said months of negotiations aimed at finding an academic partner to help keep it afloat had failed.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: college; dowling; dowlingcollege; education; longisland; newyork; universities
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Do you hear the higher ed bubble starting to pop? No point in attending these high priced medicore private colleges.
1 posted on 06/01/2016 10:32:02 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

It’s only been around since 1968.
Not exactly like closing Harvard or Yale.


2 posted on 06/01/2016 10:35:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan
liberal arts college

I think I see the problem.................................

3 posted on 06/01/2016 10:36:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!..........................)
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To: C19fan

They're finally catching on.

4 posted on 06/01/2016 10:43:47 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Red Badger

Off topic but brings up the issue of how we want to encourage everyone to go to college. Yet so many college kids get degrees in areas which don’t need to career paths. They don’t make enough to pay off student loans and still have money to pay their other bills.


5 posted on 06/01/2016 10:43:51 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Don’t lead to career paths is what I meant to write.


6 posted on 06/01/2016 10:44:33 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Red Badger
Once upon a time Liberal Arts was an honorable degree. It meant the graduate was well-rounded, versed in the foundations of western civilization and all that sprang from it, including our business system.

Such graduates were valued because they were highly adaptable to many different situations. There are a handful such as Hillsdale College in Michigan where this is still true. For most of the rest, a Liberal Arts degree = Marxism and Politically Correct studies and graduates who, at best, will become reasonably competent apparatchiks and, at worst, will become professional victims.

7 posted on 06/01/2016 10:47:52 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: C19fan

There was a survey that showed that the bottom half of the law school classes in over half of the law schools don’t get a job as a lawyer. Universities have turned into mills that admit unqualified people for jobs that don’t exist simply to squeeze them for as much tuition as they and their poor, deluded parents can be squeezed for before they break.


8 posted on 06/01/2016 10:49:34 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego
As you probably know, we want to encourage everyone to go to college, is to make sure a key constituency of the PC crowd has employment which pays far more than they are worth.
9 posted on 06/01/2016 10:50:34 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman

“They send you off to college to try to gain a little knowledge, But all you want to do is learn how to score.” - Jimmy Buffett


10 posted on 06/01/2016 10:51:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Off topic but brings up the issue of how we want to encourage everyone to go to college. Yet so many college kids get degrees in areas which don’t need to career paths. They don’t make enough to pay off student loans and still have money to pay their other bills.

I think there is only one reason why a lot of kids today are going to college.

Probably only the hottest girls make enough to pay off their college loans...

11 posted on 06/01/2016 10:56:31 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: C19fan

I taught at a CTE high school at a time when a lot of older mechanics were retiring and there weren’t enough young guys to take their place. Guys in my special ed classes came back to visit their shop teaches, and I got to speak with them (I teach math). AFter 2 years, they would be making more than I had been at the time, after 5 years of teaching.


12 posted on 06/01/2016 10:57:20 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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“Dowling is the latest in a series of small private colleges that have shut their doors amid financial trouble. This month, Burlington College in Vermont, formerly led by the wife of Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, said it will close after taking on heavy debt.”


13 posted on 06/01/2016 10:58:19 AM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: C19fan; jimrob

Let’s start a Free Republic Conservative College, and buy it.

Any investors here??


14 posted on 06/01/2016 10:59:09 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: Snickering Hound

My daughter’s best friend went to a pricey, private college. After one semester she decided it wasn’t for her. She decided to drop out and enroll in tech school instead. She became a welder.

She is doing extremely well. And as a black female welder she is always in demand.


15 posted on 06/01/2016 11:00:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Lonely Bull

So Bernie Sanders’ wife spent other peoples money and the college failed... Imagine that.


16 posted on 06/01/2016 11:01:06 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“There was a survey that showed that the bottom half of the law school classes in over half of the law schools don’t get a job as a lawyer.”

Law school applications are down substantially in the past few years, and enrollments are down as well. Several factors are at play, including the overall decline in specialized staff at large companies, the demise of small law firms, the rise of online legal advice like LegalZoom.com, etc.

https://www.noodle.com/articles/is-law-school-enrollment-still-dropping-the-latest-trends


17 posted on 06/01/2016 11:02:55 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’ve found that the position I’m in right now, if I were to apply or re-apply for it today would require me to have a minimum 2year degree. They prefer 4 years of school. I could never get into a management position without one.
I’ve been passed over many times because of that, yet I’ve been doing the same job for almost twenty years. Plus ten in the Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children club.....


18 posted on 06/01/2016 11:06:56 AM PDT by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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To: mountn man

Reminds me of the recent thread here, where college girls were finding “sugar daddies” to pay off their school loans, in exchange for God only knows........


19 posted on 06/01/2016 11:09:10 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Mr. K

What would the curriculum be like?


20 posted on 06/01/2016 11:12:10 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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