This is the impact of public brainwashing. People know college is expensive. Many don’t know how a college education will help them personally. And yet, they’ve been told they must have a college degree in order to succeed.
Most colleges should disappear or at least shrink significantly. Begin with eliminating anything with “studies” in the title.
Then ditch the athletic departments. Concentrate on academics.
I was in General Construction of large projects. Due to the large contract issues I used to have people assume I was an Attorney, or a Registered Engineer, Architect or MBA. I always told then that “No, those people work for me but I was an Army Mess Sergeant.”
Universities provide degrees without value. They waste the time of the people who get degrees because laws exist that force employers to demand degrees of any type or risk having to hire the first idiot who walks through the door. Its not that a college teaches anything of value. Almost everything in a college can be found on google or youtube. And I say almost because you need a college for a frat party.
Its legal to look at a college and degree and grade point average and say “I’ll take you.” or “Sorry, your not what we want.” You can say anything about a previous employer or skills, which may or may not be true. But colleges can be checked easy enough. And that tells you the person in front of you either got the degree or is a Kennedy. And those odds are better than anyone without a degree.
Learn a trade. Put a useless college professor out of a job.
The whole debate over Fed.gov discharging student loan debt proves that “higher education’s” cost and bloat is a purposeful government (now leftist) political project, funded by Fed.gov printed, fiat, debt-money.
wow its “awake-up call”? He must have been sleeping hard.
We definitely need some sort of major reset.
You can get a college degree on youtube. 😏
How’s attendance? It really doesn’t matter if people (probably mostly post college age) think it’s worth it. If people are going, that’s all the colleges care about. They just need to look at politics, most of the country thinks both parties suck, and yet who wins all the elections.
Democrats are famous for saying...”The rich need to pay their fair share”...
Universities have endowments upwards of $41 Billion...richer than any individual.
How about a serious tax on all university endowments...time they paid their “fair share”...
Why would a white male in particular attend just about any non stem college or university and be told that he is a racist, homophobe, sexists, misognist etc. etc. and the USA is a racist, fascist, etc. etc. country in about half of his classes and pay thousand of dollars to hear that.
If you want a career in a STEM field, law, medicine, or simply want to teach at the college level then a degree is usually necessary.
But, nearly all other degrees are worthless.
But they will.
Very, very rarely does something turn around and that is a work of God. Otherwise, mankind is always on a self-destructive path.
Require that the colleges pay up on any defaulted college finance loans.
They need more skin in the game to make their degrees more valuable again.
On a whole, I hope the entire university system bites the dust.
Even for engineers and scientists. Make them all Apprentice programs. Get rid of tenure