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?
Actually I think the classics are important. It is the foundation of our civilization - Western Civilization. That being said it should be primarily taught in the K-12.
Greece & Rome were more then just the home of gyros & pasta.
End student loans.
If I had my way, students would be required to have an actual work history, no extracurricular, just a work history. Students will be required to build their resume in relation to their degree field via projects that they have to come up with.
The biggest problems driving costs in colleges and universities are:
1) The desired to turn college into a “resort” where occasionally education occurs,
2) The explosion of administrative positions,
3) Not everyone needs to go! Probably half the students there don’t have any business being there,
4) Government subsidies.
You know, I am glad I dropped out of community college. I didn’t want to go unless I could afford it and I am certain that there are too many who just want to find a new place to party all the time. Get rid of the bureaucrats and I daresay that ending athletics programs would cut things down drastically.
Get ALL the federal money out of education. End federal college student loans. End ALL the federal funding of graduate research into “global warming.”
Get the university regents to end all crapola “studies” degrees.
Tuition prices would drop lickety-split and you’d have a student body who is serious about getting a real-world education in no time at all.
Amen! No more loans. It would drop considerably and of course, I think degree programs should be project based so students get real world experience on their resume.
First - End all Government-backed student loans. Its the 21st century form of debt-servitude.
Students become debt slaves to government, the money of which simply goes to tuition increases.
Second - I would also declare PRICE CONTROLS on University tuition. It would be excellent irony. Let all the leftists in academia flee to the free-market to claim that price-controls don’t work.
Third - announce a 5% annual tax on all University endowments over $1 Billion.
It's even WORSE than that simple calculus. Students think even more so that Government = GOOD! "See - it paid for my education. It MUST be a force for good."
It perpetuates our problem with a compliant, unquestioning citizenry that sees a benevolent government is here to see to all their needs cradle to grave. It is pernicious and downright evil because it destroys a self-reliant, critical-thinking citizenry essential to the survival of a free republic.
I agree with you on this. College at your own pace, online is coming sooner or later.
This. Get rid of the LGBT classes crap, the gender studies crap.
Universities guarantee the loans of all their students. That would get rid of the remedial students and soft sciences pretty quick.
Stop government backed loans.
The price will drop within a couple of years and kids will be serious about going to school.
When you take away the credit card, you pay more attention to how you spend your money.
Given they have billions, require the university to pay the bills of their students in regards to their attendance. That way universities will easily only let in the brightest and the ones who will study real serious topics.
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Create a database of millions of test questions on each subject and assemble tests on a random basis per each student. No two tests alike, so no cheating. Have each question submitted to the database along with the supposedly correct answer, then peer reviewed by a hundred OTHER professors without any knowledge of who submitted it. If more than few of those peers disagree with the answer, throw the question out. That eliminates teaching bias where the “right” answer is based on the opinion of the teacher rather than facts.
Those subjects that involve numbers - math, physics, economics, computer science, accounting, statistics, chemistry, etc. — should have problems generated by randomly changing the numbers in the database questions and answers so there is no chance of memorizing the answers. Stop giving “partial credit” for showing the method used to get a wrong answer — in the real world (as in a JOB) all that matters is whether the answer is right or not.
Make colleges nothing more than “prep centers” and it is the testing itself that is accredited, such that anyone can get a degree by self-study or online study or going to a college.
The main problem with education IMHO is that too much is assumed based on WHERE you went to school and there is no OBJECTIVE measure of what was learned. Even grading on a “curve” is ridiculous since it only tells you how well a student compares to those others in the same class — it tells you nothing about how they compare to students in other classes with a different professor at the same school much less at a different school. Objective testing is the answer, and that eliminates the importance of WHERE you went to school.
Changing the emphasis to test scores on universal tests allows people to get a degree for free with self study and puts colleges in a true price competition.
Get the government out of the student loan business.
Lenders will compete, granting loans to those that appear to have the drive to succeed and repay the loan with their education.
This will put pressure on stupid courses and put the focus on curricula that will pay off in the marketplace.
Colleges will compete for the students, driving down tuition. Better education, less administration and politically correct overhead.
Grants to be provided from philanthropy, not tax dollars.
Free market all around.
Bingo! Success!
Bing,bing,bing! We have a winner.
Government money has screwed up higher ed, plain and simple.
Require colleges to give students a cost/benefits analysis on the major they are considering. When kids consider Sociology degrees and the like with no real life use, and see what previous students with those degrees make in real life, those curricula will go away. Along with the elimination of government subsidies of education, which seems to be the general (and correct)consensus here.
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