“2025 is going to have a lot of turbulence followed by potentially weekly plane crashes of colleges and universities who can no longer afford to open their doors.”
And just like that, the housing problem is solved...
This is a good thing. Young people can work in trades and realistic careers.
Universities need to be reserved for STEM type degrees. Eliminate fluff and over-reliance on kids games (sports)
Probably lower the costs to a more reasonable amount
Perhaps some smart colleges could offer a core liberal arts course stripped of innumerable majors, minors, electives, and various “studies” departments, and taught with a minimum of staff. Look at the colleges a hundred years ago and see how they could operate with a fraction of the staff that they have today, while offering a better education. Also get rid of the culture of “publish or perish.” Put the professors back in the classroom.
similar is also happening in public high schools and elementary schools......parents do not want their kids exposed to woke ideology and are finding other means to educate them.
Where I am no less than 30 public schools are slated for closure and it’s directly related to that very reason.
I don’t find it hard to believe, but don’t these colleges have professors of economics and finance that didn’t realize that the college tuition spiral was unsustainable.
The US is grossly overpopulated by university types.
Trades are great careers and train young people up for excellent future salaries. The only problem is that they don’t get the well-rounding that a good liberal arts college will give them. But since that rounding has become indoctrination into depressing progressive philosophy, I’m torn. Isn’t there a market for a smaller conservative college with all the excellent conservative professors who have been pushed out of the liberal everyone-think-alike schools? Essentially a 2 year college of excellence that encourages the trades at the same time. Wouldn’t it be fun to talk art history with your electrician while they work?
Paying upwards of $100k per year for a worthless degree in ‘Minority Lesbian Women’s Studies’ is not exactly an enticing agenda to prepare for a future success.............
My wife works in admissions at a public university in Virginia and she is always dismayed by the kids that come from out of state to Virginia, paying huge out-of-state tuition, to major in Communications or Psychology or something clearly offered at their own state colleges.
Well in a way it’s not surprising. The operating assumption by college\university presidents and even their oversight bodies was that student population growth would go on forever. Remember these presidents are PhD’s, etc. and the oversight bodies are generally the “creme de la creme” of the states and alumni they serve. These “stable geniuses” couldn’t see the flaw in that assumption? They never heard of the aphorism - “What goes up must come down!”? The college\university presidents could almost be excused since the measure of their success and advancement was institution expansion not academic improvement - mostly meaning expensive construction to accommodate student body growth. All of this was aided and abetted by federal student loan money pouring into the system driving a false student population growth. For state schools where were the state legislatures? I know mesmerized into silence because it was all for the children!
Good!!!! Outside of a few STEM cirriculums, they’re nothing but communist endoctrination centers.
I. DON’T. CARE!!!!
Hiring DEI Deans, at 150K a pop, is a good place to start cutting costs.
Today’s good news story. Now if they went back to educating people in areas that would enhance their career opportunities, it would be a bad thing. Unfortunately higher ed evolved into higher brain washing the kids into leftism.
People entering college with the idea of being an engineer wind up being political activists hating America. The colleges cut their own throats.
Good. A good many college courses of today wouldn’t qualify as acceptable junior high school courses back in the early 1900s.
Screw college; If I had it to do over I’d probably start a plumbing business, you can never find a good one and they can easily earn a six figure salary and there is always work and a need.
My daughter’s friend is about to graduate from medical school in May - $500,000 in debt. Even with a doctor’s salary (eventually after years of residency) it will be difficult to get out from under that massive loan.
Meanwhile, had a plumber in the house who charged me $240 for a .10 cent part he had in his truck to fix a toilet that had broken on the Thanksgiving Eve. The repair took 10 minutes.
Yes, I am learning to do it myself from YouTube videos, but didn’t know at the time, the other bathroom was undergoing renovations and I had a houseful of relatives arriving the next morning.
Mike Rowe is doing a Victory dance somewhere.
My daughter is an adjunct professor at two universities. She described the enrollment falloff as severe.
It was interesting to hear her go off on Obama for taking over the student loan programs, which lead to the student loan debt crisis.
She is finally “getting it.”