Get rid of the cr** courses you have to take and make college 3 years. And if you take enough courses in High school, you can make it two years.
Get it to 3 years by allowing the english and social studies type classes to be online and then test out of them outside of the supervision of the university
Tuition is high due to government subsidies.
Remove the government subsidies, the prices crash.
Total NON-ISSUES.
Reforming the system would be replacing the 98% Marxist/atheist professors with conservative ones.
That would be priceless, and worth whatever it cost.
Will never happen though.
It’s a core issue for recovering our nation - and really it’s too late to turn around with decades of dumbed-down, brainwashed idiots now voting........
Get rid of stupid classes: LGTB Studies, Women’ s Studies etc.
90 percent of what is taught in College can be taught online with better lecturers and as good results.
Set up a system to allow for courses online to meet standards for degrees.
Recognize online degrees for federal jobs, and/or recognize the credits for people in military funded programs like GI bill.
Stop requiring a degree and start requiring high school teach instead.
“Must be a high school graduate. College is overqualified.”
Standards can be easily raised by requiring all accredited colleges and universities to have a roughly equal number of right-of center professors as left-of-center. Also, if a professor gets rated poorly by a lot of their students on ratemyprofessor.com, fire them - or give them fewer classes to teach and a resultant decrease in pay.
Tuition can be effectively lowered by doing something similar to Prop 13, in that they can only be raised by a certain small percentage per year. Average out the per-student cost over the past 20 years to establish a base tuition rate, then limit any increase to, say, 75% of the previous year’s cost of living adjustment and it’ll curb the runaway increases.
Or make every university post their tuition rates at the top of each page of their websites and let the consumers decide if that particular school is worth it.
But that’s just stream of consciousness rambling on my part and it might not make any sense. It’s been a long day.
Offer nothing but engineering and math courses. The humanities are a waste of time and money. I had to take a “classics” course as a requirement. Complete waste of time and money. I can’t believe some idiots major in things like that.
Same goes for psychology (b******t major for women), anthropology, art, sociability, philosophy, English (I can read a book in my spare time), political science, etc.
Whittle courses down to required courses. Eliminate electives and PC fluff.
Admit only those students who have potential rather than if they bring diversity. No dumb jocks.
No safe spaces.
You stage a protest of any sort and you’re expelled.
No tenure for profs. You fail to teach, you get a pink slip.
Students want special interest groups, take it off campus.
Or better yet, just make it an online college and be done with all the hoo ha.
Pass rigorous tests, be awarded a degree. But it’s a money game, many will not accept all transferred credits otherwise they don’t make enough money.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.