make it easier on the colleges
for the next twenty years eliminate the social sciences of demography, human geography, international relations, linguistics, political science and sociology (the current occupants in the related professions will be doing enough damage in society), strengthen history and english composition. increase internships in the real world, and their length and frequency (doctors are taught medicine in teaching hospitals; do the same with other disciplines, especially egineering, business and finance), reduce restrictions on which classes are open to which grade(s), and devise and increase the use of exams that fairly and accurately judge “knowledge acquired outside of formal academic settings” as evidence of the acquisition of “credits” toward a degree
but what everyone is attempting is not how to reduce what the education industrial complex is costing, just how to pay for what it is costing, while preserving its perks and perequisites it has bestowed on itself