Posted on 05/19/2022 12:46:50 PM PDT by karpov
Soon, high school graduates will be making monumental decisions that will determine their future quality of life. These decisions include whether to attend college; if so, where; and finally, what degree program to pursue. Research shows that while not guaranteeing career success, a college degree often affords students more control over their destiny and enables a higher quality of life.
Should they decide to attend college, graduates face two additional issues that plague U.S. higher education: 1) rapidly increasing cost and 2) the declining value of a college degree. Students, parents, and employers have looked to our universities to solve these problems. Sadly, attempts to address both issues have proven a fruitless exercise, as universities are excruciatingly slow to change.
A 2020 article, “Wake Up Higher Education. The Degree Is On The Decline,” casts doubt on whether higher education will answer the wake-up call. However, if students couple early strategic planning with a careful selection of degree programs and elective courses, they can address many cost and value issues at most public universities. To improve their prospects for success, students must address strategic goals when selecting a college, including assessing possible career interests, establishing a budget, determining the amount of acceptable debt following graduation, and planning their work/course-load/life balance.
Surprisingly, few students or parents ask the right questions or plan accordingly. Too many students blindly assume a college education will produce a degree creating professional career options. Unfortunately, nothing is farther from the truth. Many college degrees do not provide graduates with skills that are valued and needed in the workplace. Instead, recent graduates often must undergo expensive postgraduate education to become employable. Even then, many graduate degrees have negative ROIs. Economists say the future of work is not about college degrees but job skills.
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Just get rid of the diversity department and any school that has the word “studies” in its title and the costs will start to melt away
Also eliminate remedial courses
The #1 best way to make college affordable is to get the GD government to stop trying to make it affordable.
In the 1970's I worked to pay for living and college, no LOAN! No issue! Now:
Average student loan debt amount = $37,172
Average student loan payment = $393/month
https://www.nitrocollege.com/research/average-student-loan-debt#:~:text=Top%20statistics%20of%20the%20student%20loan%20debt%20landscape,%2437%2C172%204%20Average%20student%20loan%20payment%20%3D%20%24393%2Fmonth
The big push for $15.00 / hour minimum wage would not even put a dent in this debt! Thanks Libs for causing our young to be FOREVER in debt!
If your degree doesn’t lead to a license or certification you are probably wasting your money.
Stop teaching communism and stop admiring it in front of your students.
I once took a real estate licensing course.
It was very affordable and well done.
When you subsidize something, it gets more expensive.
Cut fed and state spending on college and the basket weaving degrees will evaporate overnight.
Back in the 1960s there were business colleges.
They made women employable for office work.
They’d be practically all remedial courses now, if labeled honestly.
Too many good people don’t want to deal with the woke military.
You, my FRiend, were the beneficiary of a time when the state govermnent subsidized up to 2/3 of the cost of public university tuition.
Those days are long gone.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4064566/posts?page=8#8
As opposed to a Woke school system, or a Woke corporate world, or a Woke government sector?
The secret is not to avoid those places that are Woke, it is to not become Woke yourself.
Education is the important word. That eliminates the vast majority of any non-STEM department out there. Didn’t used to be that way, but datz da way ‘tiz.
Defund the grievance studies departments.
Make all professors and administrators work [not that they do much of that] for Free. For The Children.
that and get taxpayer money out of the college system. state lotteries are like crack for colleges.
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