Posted on 05/18/2025 4:23:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
All for it. Tuition has exceeded the annual cost of living for decades. We know the statistics how the administrations are 90%+ DemonRats. Keep the 2-year tech schools going. Haven’t donated to my alma mater in decades. Starve the beasts.
Enrollment is up. Young men are going into the trades now instead of the university.
Main problems:
1. Administrative bloat and bureaucracy
2. Cost risign faster than inflation (due to #1)
3. Radicalization of the faculty and curriculum
4. Drop in percieved value of a college education (for many disciplines)
5. Lawlessness and disorder on campuses
6. Demographic shift (fewer young people, more minorities from cultures that do not value education)
7. Feminization of Academia
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As a bonus they will be exposed to a different, hopefully more normal, demographic of eligible females.
I fundamentally agree with letting colleges fail. It is unfortunate how much pain Americans are going to have to go through, but the alternative is worse.
They are nothing more than left-wing indoctrination centers.
They used to teach you how to think, now they teach you what to think.
I worked for UAT in Arizona. Private university. Year round classes. Graduate in 2.5 years. Have to bring 2 items to market before you graduate. No frills. 98% placement rate after graduation. Go Daddy was BEGGING us for graduates. Real degrees, no “studies” degrees.
Thriving when I left.
That is how a university should run.
You missed one: Competition. Energetic and dedicated autodidacts can learn what they need from the Internet for virtually free.
To paraphrase the newest Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis, typical US universities lost their audience and โpeople are not reading their stuff.โ
If only.
Energetic and dedicated autodidacts can learn what they need from the Internet for virtually free.
Let the colleges go down to their last 50 billion dollars in endowments. Let them see how we feel when we face financial problems in life. /S
It's not that hard. Start early.
Both my girls taught themselves college calculus at the age of 12. Once I had taught them to read and used algebra to teach them arithmetic, I spent less time teaching them than I did dealing with the stupidity of the private school they were attending. These kids could factor a quadratic in their heads by the age of seven and before they fully knew their times tables.
They provide a product with a bad value. [In more ways than one.]
We still have a rogue moderator killing perfectly legitimate threads.
I certainly had interest to read it.
Let? They already have. The only thing left is fiscal bankruptcy. They’ve long succeeded in the intellectual and moral parts
Imagine that. Something The Hill published that I actually agree with.
Is that the University of Advancing Technology?
Hillary, David Hogg, Obama, Elizabeth Warren are examples, but there are tons these people at all levels of the expansive government bureaucracy and in โadvisory positionsโ. There should be no such pipelines.
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