Posted on 09/23/2020 7:58:52 AM PDT by karpov
Before the COVID-19 pandemic walloped our colleges and universities, higher education had been facing threats to existing business models for years. A great deal has been written the past few years predicting the demise of large numbers of U.S. colleges and universities.
Many higher education institutions are indeed threatened. But their demise may not be inevitable; the problem may not be endogenous factors but how they are managed, and that can be corrected.
Still, the scenario has looked bleak for many small private colleges. Former Harvard Business School professor and management guru Clayton Christensen predicted that half of American colleges would shut down by 2030. One new study, “The College Stress Test, Tracking Institutional Futures across a Crowded Market”, is less alarmist than Christensen, albeit still quite concerning. The authors summarize the public conversation of higher education. They depict it as suffering a gloomy future, particularly for small, private, tuition-dependent colleges, “whose fate has already been sealed…higher education is on the brink of a crisis, and schools need to sit up and take notice.”
The smaller and more tuition-dependent an institution is, the more vulnerable it is. At many of these places, any loss of revenue can be dire. Former president of the Appalachian College Association Alice Brown wrote that “having ten fewer students than expected is a serious financial problem. Having thirty fewer is a disaster.” Former chancellor of the Minnesota State University and University of Maine systems Terrence MacTaggart characterized the situation facing small, private, low-prestige institutions rather bluntly: “Small private colleges without a distinctive niche face a harsh reality: Change for the better or risk decline and possibly going out of business.”
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Our best hope of saving the country is if half of the Marxist indoctrination centers we call colleges shut down.
Meh, they have billions in endowments.
Many small colleges, what I would call “vanity colleges” really have no compelling reason to exist. they were founded during the salad days of lush federal support simply because some group of people thought it would be a great idea to have their own little college, and the costs were low enough for students to flood into the dorms so they could have that “Campus experience” and get a ticket to a job. The GI Bill helped a lot too. Now, the season has changed and the chill in the air threatens many of these vulnerable hothouse orchids with severe frostbite.
About 1% do.
The old model is done thanks to the plandemic. $70k a year for an online course taught by a third rate professor at a school like NYU or Syracuse?
It would have limped along for decades but Obama federalized student loans and made higher ed an even bigger ponzi.
Thank God Obama was a lazy retard. The restructuring of higher ed and the dismantling of these commie diploma mills is long overdue.
If you are a private college without at least a billion $ endowment, you are toast.
I’d prefer two years at a community college and or two years online and then perhaps 2 years of hands on course work labs, etc.
The 4 year college is a scam and way overpriced for what you get.
The remark about vanity college orfhids is spot on, Buzz:
One type of college I’d like to see revive is an all male college simply because we men are wired differently than women.
At the turn of the 19th and 2oth centuries Co-education was more or less an experiment, stylish as was women’s sufferage and other such radical change, quite a bit of which hasn’t turned out as the optimistic radicals predicted.
It has been proven many, many times that single sex education, whether male or female produces far better scholorship and results than co-education, especially at the so-called middle and high school levels, where the students are going through adolescents and puberty, when sexual hormones are raising to the maximal levels. When girls are turning into women and are at their most attractive best it is hard, so to speak, for guys to concentrate.
I know, I was there 80 years ago (I’m 88 and have seen what an improvement single sex serious education has going for itself.
There’s more but other’s will take up fruiful discuswsion, so let’s see what they have to say.
A classical education, strong on basic skills and intellectual freedom, needs to make a comeback in America.
As does the intact 2 parent family who raise their children instead of giving that chore to GovCo’s modern marxist indoctrination centers.
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