[1Old Pro]

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is urging President Joe Biden to extend the student loan payment pause to give the administration time to fix broken student loan programs and help student loan borrowers better prepare to make payments.

Colleges are supposed to help borrowers to get "better prepared" to pay off their debts, it's called getting a job, being recruitable, having value.

[Reily]

Unfortunately today's colleges & universities want student butts on seats. What they study is immaterial! The student majors in something fun but useless, not the schools problem. (Some schools are now offering minors & majors in video gaming. No I am not talking about game design!) They have a paying butt in a seat. The student realizes he\she is wasting their time and leaves, no problem there's always another paying student student butt for that seat. Notice I used the word “paying” several times, again immaterial to the school the source of the money. If it's the taxpayer so much the better, to the school there's an infinite supply.

Another good thing about that paying student butt he\she (and their parents!) are generally naive about fields of study that have a ROI - That's Return on Investment. (If you're inside academia you wouldn't know (or at least you would pretend not to know!) the meaning of the acronym!). So given that naivety, you talk the paying student butt into useless no future ROI but trendy & woke programs at your school. (These programs do nothing for the student's future but make you the administrator and the school look good to others in the academic universe!

Who's ultimately at fault:

1. Those voters who blindly acquiesce to anything “education”. They hear the words “It's for the children!” and they shower the academic con artist with money.

2. If public institutions state legislators who react like the voters in item 1. Their job should be to ROI test programs the taxpayer pays for for. If private institutions its their governing board's responsibility and the alumni! Small private institutions are headed for extinction and going trendy will only accelerate it. Only going ROI will fix it. Give the students a reason to go there!

3.Governing boards (both types of schools!) who won't hold school presidents feet to the fire over things like ROI. Yes you may take heat by those playing the Race Card, show some guts and do it!

4. Students, parents & K12 academic counselors who don't think critically about the students need to go the college\university. (Perhaps a four year paid party & vacation from reality is the goal. I knew some parents who thought this way!) Also think critically about the college\university claims in general & its academic program claims in particular.