Institutes of higher learning need to get back into the business of higher learning.
I think it’s too late for them to pull up.
Rice is offering free admission to middle class undergrads.
Nobody is applying, and everybody is saying ‘FU’ to the business model.
“Let’s see, I go $250K in debt and still can’t show an employer I have an actual skill. I could go down to the local IBEW, sign up for their internship program, make $20 to go to school for 6 weeks, and then spend the rest of the year actually working in a skilled trade. In year 2 I make $25 an hour, and at the end I have to work for a union shop for two years, where I’ll make $65K per year and up. - no debt, and no political re-education.
Well, that’s a tough call . . . “