Posted on 11/07/2016 6:36:58 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
How would you reform the university system? How would you find a way to lower tuition and raise standards?
Get rid of the cr** courses you have to take and make college 3 years. And if you take enough courses in High school, you can make it two years.
Get it to 3 years by allowing the english and social studies type classes to be online and then test out of them outside of the supervision of the university
Great minds think alike
Tuition is high due to government subsidies.
Remove the government subsidies, the prices crash.
Total NON-ISSUES.
Reforming the system would be replacing the 98% Marxist/atheist professors with conservative ones.
That would be priceless, and worth whatever it cost.
Will never happen though.
It’s a core issue for recovering our nation - and really it’s too late to turn around with decades of dumbed-down, brainwashed idiots now voting........
Get rid of stupid classes: LGTB Studies, Women’ s Studies etc.
Who cares?
90 percent of what is taught in College can be taught online with better lecturers and as good results.
Set up a system to allow for courses online to meet standards for degrees.
Recognize online degrees for federal jobs, and/or recognize the credits for people in military funded programs like GI bill.
Stop requiring a degree and start requiring high school teach instead.
“Must be a high school graduate. College is overqualified.”
If they crap on the first amendment pull ALL funding.
Standards can be easily raised by requiring all accredited colleges and universities to have a roughly equal number of right-of center professors as left-of-center. Also, if a professor gets rated poorly by a lot of their students on ratemyprofessor.com, fire them - or give them fewer classes to teach and a resultant decrease in pay.
Tuition can be effectively lowered by doing something similar to Prop 13, in that they can only be raised by a certain small percentage per year. Average out the per-student cost over the past 20 years to establish a base tuition rate, then limit any increase to, say, 75% of the previous year’s cost of living adjustment and it’ll curb the runaway increases.
Or make every university post their tuition rates at the top of each page of their websites and let the consumers decide if that particular school is worth it.
But that’s just stream of consciousness rambling on my part and it might not make any sense. It’s been a long day.
Not a single public nickel for classes/degrees with negative cost/benefit histories.
Get rid of all classes with the words studies of ending in the word science. Get rid of the sports teams which then will allow you to then get rid of all remedial classes. Fire 2/3 of the faculty that are not actual professors. Fire all professors who have their classes taught by TAs. Go back to no frills dorms and cafeterias...it is a place for kids to learn, not an all inclusive luxury resort in the bahamas
Offer nothing but engineering and math courses. The humanities are a waste of time and money. I had to take a “classics” course as a requirement. Complete waste of time and money. I can’t believe some idiots major in things like that.
Same goes for psychology (b******t major for women), anthropology, art, sociability, philosophy, English (I can read a book in my spare time), political science, etc.
Whittle courses down to required courses. Eliminate electives and PC fluff.
Admit only those students who have potential rather than if they bring diversity. No dumb jocks.
No safe spaces.
You stage a protest of any sort and you’re expelled.
No tenure for profs. You fail to teach, you get a pink slip.
Students want special interest groups, take it off campus.
Or better yet, just make it an online college and be done with all the hoo ha.
Whoops! I meant sociology. See! Even my phone knows it’s a crock!!
Pass rigorous tests, be awarded a degree. But it’s a money game, many will not accept all transferred credits otherwise they don’t make enough money.
First you’ll have to get the Supreme Court to overturn “Griggs (I think?) vs Duke Power”. I think that was the decision that started us down the path to where you need a BS or BA degree to flip hamburgers. (ok a slight exaggeration!)
Yes, Michigan State SJW want to add 6 credit hours of BS courses to the curriculum.
Get rid of the garbage classes and departments, don’t build rock climbing walls and other “lures” for students, make the university about intellectual pursuits vs. leisure pursuits. See Forbes, The College Amenities Arms Race: http://www.forbes.com/sites/caranewlon/2014/07/31/the-college-amenities-arms-race/#65aae1dd1f3c
Tuition costs at UPenn from 1900 to present: http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/tuition/2010.html It’s interesting to look at costs and then adjust them for inflation.
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