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Enrollment Loss, Financial Woes An Increasing Problem At US Colleges
Epoch Times ^ | 06/27/2024 | Aaron Gifford

Posted on 06/27/2024 9:17:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 06/27/2024 9:17:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Freshman starting in the fall, have no certainty the school will be around for four years.


2 posted on 06/27/2024 9:21:45 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s a bubble. So perhaps there needs to be a 50% decrease in enrollment. And they need to reduce the costs and get rid of the woke crap. We need to eliminate student loans.


3 posted on 06/27/2024 9:21:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SeekAndFind

How is Arizona of Phoenix doing, because it has a nationwide correspondence program for many, or most, of its courses?


4 posted on 06/27/2024 9:30:44 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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It has become painfully obvious over the last several decades that college is designed to fleece students and keep them from learning.



5 posted on 06/27/2024 9:35:51 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

Problem?

It’s a DIE Dividend!


6 posted on 06/27/2024 9:50:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

Glad to hear this. You can get what used to be a college education by watching youtube videos.


7 posted on 06/27/2024 9:53:14 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

“He changed his major from art to business”

A freakin’ genius.....


8 posted on 06/27/2024 9:54:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh boo hoo. No more young Americans to turn into America hating little Lords of The Flies?

Too bad. So sad.


9 posted on 06/27/2024 10:06:36 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We have reached peak “higher” education.


10 posted on 06/27/2024 10:11:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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“As look out over your eager faces I can readily understand why this college is flat on it's back!’’

“Last college I presided over things were slightly different. I was flat on my back. But it wasn't long before we all put our noses to the grindstone and I was flat on my back again!’’.

“Let me remind you this college was here before you came, it'll be here before you go!’’. Grouch Marx, aka “Professor Wagstaff, “Horse Feathers’’.

11 posted on 06/27/2024 10:13:27 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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It is the taxpayers that are flecked, not th students. The student loan debt is a democrat lie to do more of the same.
If you want to be in a profession that requires graduate and post graduate work, make over six figures, then complain that the taxpayer making far less should be forced to pay your bill… it’s simply another federal dollar scheme just like healthcare.
I get sick of hearing the ads saying… I only pay 50 dollars a month for comprehensive health insurance… that is 10 of what the working class pays… if you’re lucky.


12 posted on 06/28/2024 12:58:46 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

good, what a scam they pulled on all of us


13 posted on 06/28/2024 2:41:28 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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“We need to eliminate student loans.”

That is the first response to the cost of higher ed (HE) but I don’t think that would be the best solution. Lack of funds for students will soon restrict the enrollment to kids who come from better established families. That would soon create a sharp divide in our society in educational level.

The three components of the problem are the students, HE, and access to financing(family, banks, gubmint, etc). Of these only HE has no skin in the game. HE will not provide educational services until it is paid. Where that money comes from is of no concern to HE. Also HE has no responsibility regarding the product they turn out. If the student graduates with a worthless degree and cannot pay off their student loans, HE is not held responsible in any way.

A possible solution is to require HE to shoulder a significant part of the financial burden and to make repayment of that portion align with the repayment ability of the graduate. This will force HE to emphasize degree plans that produce graduates that can pay back their loans. A welcome side effect will be the reduction in worthless ‘studies’ programs.


14 posted on 06/28/2024 3:36:04 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I can explain why. Too many worthless courses of study. Too many foolish excuses for professors and TAs, earning too much money. Top heavy administrations, earning too much money. Get practical. Teach things people need to know. Nursing, engineering, pre-med, accounting. Other than that, pretty worthless. J school? What a joke.


15 posted on 06/28/2024 4:44:38 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Feel-good story of the day!

Our academy must be gutted of its cultural marxists and thoroughly remodeled around Christian sound-mind principles.

It’s too bad but they did it to themselves, with the help of moneymoneymoney force-pumped into the academy by the deep state.


16 posted on 06/28/2024 4:57:36 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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>> J school? What a joke.

E-school? Also an evil, propagandizing joke.


17 posted on 06/28/2024 4:58:31 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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E-school? Also an evil, propagandizing joke.
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Oh most definitely.


18 posted on 06/28/2024 5:09:19 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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I worked at a Univ. Parents were getting the idea when, during the ‘pandemic’, tuition remained the same...even though their kid never sat down in front of a professor. (A professor, by the way, who’s union assured that raises were still given).

Any questions?


19 posted on 06/28/2024 5:26:19 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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Half America's colleges need to shut down and reopen as trade schools and technical vocation centers. We need to train white American boys to compete with them messycans.

Oh. Wait. No way we'll get a white boy to put a roof on a house in summer.

Never mind.

20 posted on 06/28/2024 5:45:25 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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