Maybe young people are getting the message that it isn’t a great idea to take out and be saddled with loans of around $100,000 or more.
In the abstract, I think the national economy would be perfectly fine with a declining population. Growth does not necessarily require a growing population — especially with robots and AI systems starting to have an impact.
The big problem seems to be tax revenue. Lots and lots of older people collecting Social Security and Medicare. That money has to come out of the paychecks of younger people, and if the ration of Young-to-Old is too skewed, then it’s a problem.
I’m not sure how, but we need to revisit the concept of government taking care of retirement for people. Sure, if you have paid in for decades, you deserve what was promised. I think it would be a ripoff if the plug suddenly got pulled. But long term, for younger workers, a different system needs to be set up.
I see “retirement” and “tax revenue” being the real problems, not “population”.
But where are the scholars going to come from who will study the 47 genders?
Live with your parents, go to college and acquire an immense debt for a useless degree, stay unemployed, play on your computer all day, take art classes and do whatever you ‘feel’ like doing (thanks Nancy Pelosi), don’t date the opposite sex, explore your sexuality with anything other than the opposite sex, protest anything that seeks to keep civility in society, become ‘trans’ confused, ignore God and Jesus - and when people are whining that the child replacement needs are not being met, bring in replacement Americans from third world countries.
The populace is still having way too many babies. They don’t know what’s about to hit them.
AI is going to destroy 80% of the population’s chance at having a normal employed productive happy life. Add to that illegals, outsourcing, unsustainable debt, all the usual stuff and you’ll see the current birth rate is still dangerously high except for governments needing you taxes and corporations needing desperate cheap labor.
JBU continues enrollment growth with record incoming class
Staff reports
September 2, 2026 by Staff reports
John Brown University topped last year's record enrollment when it welcomed a record 473 new students to the Siloam Springs campus for orientation Aug. 19.
The incoming class includes a record 401 freshmen, 60 transfer students and 12 students returning after one or more semesters away, bringing undergraduate enrollment to 1,487 students, according to a university news release.
For the last four years, JBU has set a series of enrollment records: the largest freshman class in 2023, the largest new student class in 2024 and a record undergraduate enrollment of 1,423 students in 2025, according to the release."Families are looking for a university that offers a strong sense of community, academic excellence and a return on their investment," said Ryan Ladner, D.B.A., vice president for enrollment management.
"JBU has always remained clear about its identity. We are an interdenominational Christian university dedicated to whole-person education, shaping graduates who are well-rounded, grounded in faith and prepared with the skills and character to lead and serve. Our continued strong enrollment, along with the success of our graduates in the workforce and beyond, demonstrates that families recognize the value of a JBU education."
Colleges work against their own interest of education.
They hate the educated. Hate people. Hate society. Hate, hate, hate.
Their math, biology and sociology departments could have warned them.......if they had one........
The answer is to import Chinese and Indian trash.
Focus on STEM and dump everything else. Students will flock to your school.......
Not every kid wants to live in a Communist country.
The problem for universities is relatively easy to identify, and not so easily fixed. I went to night school after my military service in the late 1980s to early 1990s. I was paid roughly $270 a month from my GI bill benefit. I actually made money at the end of each term, and that included books! The cost of going to college is insane.
The other component that’s easy to see is the quality of the education. With all the crap courses they force students to take, and the focus more on indoctrination versus rigorous education, the perceived value of a college degree is very much diminished.
None of this can be fixed until the old hardcore liberals who run these establishments die off.
I taught at a Big Ten university and one big problem is that over the past decade, relatively few dollars went into “classroom” activities, like professors, computers, etc. Instead, large amounts were spent on administrative salaries. Almost all have hired “Grants Administrators”, “Compliance Administrators”, and all the attendant administrative and facilities costs these new personnel added to budgets. Most instruction is done by TA’s, many of whom struggle to speak English. You’re not getting what you’re paying for.
State universities nowadays are sports entertainment conglomerates with a sideline in education.
Abortion. This is what happens when you promote genocide.
The DNC’s Hamas wing has a good thing goin’.
Their problem is that the product has gone to hell.
Just typing out thoughts as read the article and the comments. What if we were getting closer to the post scarcity economy with AI and robots. One comment even mentioned growth not population being needed. I’m not advocating this just pondering, at what point would it make sense to end all welfare and entitlement programs and replace with universal basic income? I mean for everyone and then have paying jobs for those that require a human. Star Trek is based on such a post scarcity society. With so much debt accumulated and welfare programs such a large part of it, why not eliminate all of them in lieu of ubi? Please don’t roast me I am thinking past my lifetime and into the future like my grandkids and theirs. I’m no longer 25 like when I joined and never thought I would see AI, but I discuss issues with it daily now.
Listen to the sounds of decadence and decline.