Reforming the university would help too, mostly by abolishing tenure, requiring an exit competence exam for the BA degree (a sort of reverse, back-end SAT or ACT exam)
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Lots of online programs are available today which somewhat isolate students from the ideological pressures exerted by on-campus liberal professors. Remote learning may be a trend that has multiple benefits to students and society.
The best way to bring the universities back to effectiveness is to make them accountable. They are getting millions of dollars cranking out unemployable snowflakes with worthless degrees in critical environmental policy and the like. The snowflakes are stuck with $100,000 of non-dischargeable debt. Yes, they chose poorly. But what does the university care?
So, let the snowflake discharge the student loan debt, and require the university that issued the phoney-baloney degree to reimburse the government for the loan. The government is no longer the guarantor of the loan, the university is. As it should be.
The socialists may freely spend other people’s money, but they are incredibly stingy with their own.
We have a friend who has set up an online MBA with a key/top MBA university program.
There will probably be a nationwide launch of this program early next year.
Private colleges both online and a combo of online and campus are offering programs in California to train students in 2-3 years versus UC and Cal State 5-7 year degree programs. Employers are hiring the new certificate holding grads.