Posted on 12/07/2022 8:43:03 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Despite high profile stories about the closing of small liberal arts colleges, such as California’s Mills College and Vermont’s Green Mountain College, college closures have actually declined in the past five years.
But the numbers may spike again as declining U.S. birth rates soon translate into fewer graduating high schoolers after 2025.
First, the numbers. Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).
For-profit operators ran more than 80 percent of the 861 institutions that ceased operations between 2004 and 2021. For perspective, the number of closures over the past 18 years represents almost 15 percent of the 5,860 of the colleges and universities that remain in operation.
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#shut em ALL down!
How is Faber College doing?
Toga....Toga....TOga....TOGa.....TOGA.....FOOD FIGHT
Did you include the 10 million illegals who will enter during 4 years of Brandon?
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Social security and Medicare will be supported by corporate taxes, when workers can’t support the old geysers. Please note the seniors vote in greater percentage than any other group. Politicians will not allow seniors to get mad.
college is a scam. Liberal arts are no longer taught. I would be sad about them closing if I thought they actually taught liberal arts. But they don’t. When they close down there is no loss to America. The loss occurred when they stopped doing their job, teaching people to think, and express their thoughts. That does not happen anymore. Colleges charge a huge price for things that are freely available on Google or Youtube. A trade school is fine. But college is a lot of time and money with little to show for it except a large helping of propaganda.
Knowledge is good.
THIS is the entire objective of unrelenting illegals being let into the country.
Most of the colleges and u’s were for profit. We need to close down more of the crappy k-12 public schools and fill the gap with home school consortiums. Get rid of the parasitic public school teachers and school districts. Destroy them with something better and more economical.
every poster seemingly confesses to being drunk all weekend long with frequent parties and party houses and kids stumbling around....
why the hell do I have to pay taxes to support this>
so just the universities down and have them all take online classes...most of the classes anyway have no labs or seriousness that might require a teacher to be present....
I do see more colleges cutting back on sports since they can't compete with the big money schools due to NIL....
maybe its all for the better....
Not to fret, I’m certain that there will soon be a big demand for those who are mastering in underwater basket weaving./s
I’m all for trade colleges, as long as they skip all these useless electives.
Incoming illegal aliens will make up the difference. Already twice as many have crossed our southern border as we have had live American births this year.
Our replacements are well under way, and all is under control.
This is all BS as anyone with kids in college right now knows.
There are far more students now then there were in 1980 and the number of public universities has barely increased. That means that it is WAY harder to get in now and the schools are far more crowded.
The country has at least 100 million more people now then it did just 40 years ago. There were many K-12 schools built or expanded to accommodate this but almost no secondary institutions. It’s not gonna be a big deal to close up some under utilized elementary schools due to a drop in enrollment but as pointed out here, the Teachers Union wont allow it so we gotta let in 30 million more South American brats to keep the legions of social justice warriors employed.
Meanwhile, no White male gets anywhere near a University of California campus without a 4.2 GPA when basically anyone with a 3.0 could get in back in the early ‘70s.
Dont shed even one tear over the “problem” of declining enrollment. It’s a good thing.
In 1970 one had to work for a B. That isn’t the case anymore.
I didn’t know there were 861 colleges in existence.
Yup.
Well, it’s a start . . .
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