The reason why higher education in California is collapsing is because of command and control socialism.
I am a product of California education and I will tell everybody here that none of it is managed rationally.
The system could save millions if they only allowed in qualified applicants and got rid of remedial education, got rid of all the Marxist, feminist, ethnic studies programs, and forced professors to work more than one course a quarter or semester. These one course a quarter professors are making six figure salaries and work only two days a week for half a year.
Plus, many university campuses look more like 4 star resorts than colleges.
I think if your average Joe Shmoe saw all the waste and liberal privileges that go on at public universities, they would riot in the streets.
Absolutely.
I know a person who teaches one class EVERY OTHER semester, and is paid 6 figures. He teaches art. He supposedly does ‘research’ (don’t know what that would entail in art) but mainly he runs a graphic arts business on the side and travels a lot.