Foreign students bring extra tuition fees.
If colleges were not able to force students to take classes in what could be grouped under the heading of grievance studies, there would be a lot fewer jobs for PhD’s in those fields. Ending DEI employment will also lead to far fewer people majoring in worthless, even anti-American, majors
Good for them. Young people of all colors need to think hard about whether college is worth it. Way too many times its not. Kids can make more learning a trade than getting a useless degree from a third-rate college and being saddled with massive debt.
College Attendance Certificates won’t automatically get you a job anymore. Most employers are blowing them off.
Blacks stop attending HBCUs, and Trump wants to keep them solvent with Chinese students?
How much of the decline was because of smaller cohorts of graduating high school seniors?
I worked in a large papermill. Every coworker of skilled trades like steamfitters, welders, electricians, machinists, plumbers, and heavy equipment operators, was between the ages of 55 and 75. It's crisis level bad.
My B.A. from a small liberal arts college in 1972 has provided me a lifetime of useful knowledge and enjoyment. My life has been made richer by a traditional liberal education. I don’t regret a moment of it. My successful professional life was only tangentially related.
BUT!!! I paid only $750, and finally $1,000, per semester. It’s too bad that tuition is $30,000 per year for most undergraduates today. There are more attractive alternatives (especially given the sorry state of so-called “liberal education).
The way my mind and hands worked I was destined for a cubicle. I have always considered electricians modern day wizards. Certainly, they made as much or more than I ever did.
I would suggest they watch a few videos on this site before going to college:
https://www.youtube.com/@constructionmentorpodcast/shorts
I would suggest checking it out to young blacks, whites, Latinos, etc.
Because of AI and Robotics, trade school education is becoming a more lucrative education for young people...
The only thing I learned in college that made any difference was how to sound like I knew what I was talking about whether I did or not. The rest I learned in the real world.
I think many of them are smart in this respect. If they really want to get a ‘college education’ go into the military and have the US government pay for it. In the meantime, you could get an important life skill that could carry you in civilian life if the degree isn’t financially useful.