Posted on 09/25/2024 7:54:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Don’t go Woke…..
and now because college sports have thrown in with the sports industry/gambling, I would expect a whole lot of other colleges to either close down or dismantle their sports programs.
Jeez. Tough break.
Or you’ll go broke.
Colleges in division III are not really involved with the sports industry/gambling. Most of the students that I know that play in division III sports choose a college both to get a good education and play a sport.
This is what Federalizing of Student Loans has done, put the cost way too high. Also I will bet most of these schools have a top heavy administration and the costs to go with it.
The first place to layoff and fire people would be in administration and then cut the remaining salaries in half, then some of those schools might have stayed open.
Demographics are also playing a role and the need for a lot of colleges will just go down and more will close as time goes on. This what having a low birth rate will do as well high expense.
Most Profs these days are WAY underworked and WAY overpaid.
Agreed.
Many things to do to save money and keep students.
First, cut tuition by 25%. Cut on campus housing by 15%.
Hire student part time for campus work. Gardening, painting, maintenance. Less full time employees is better.
Strong education programs for college distinctives.
Part time job placement programs for students. Especially during holidays and summer. Strong internships for majors.
Get rid of programs or majors that do not add value for grads. Add programs that grads start making money immediately. Add vocational tech classes, certificates, and majors.
Drop athletic programs or go to NAIA or NCAA D3. Let the students be the athletes also.
Rent some of college buildings out.
Am sure there are lots more suggestions...jus’ sayin’
Same here - still trying to find the bad news...
90% of all colleges could go away and we would be better for it. Go get you some trade skills!
The collapse of Big Academia has begun!
Mitch Daniels did it right at Perdue. Demographics have most to do with it.
My son graduated from a small private engineering college. They concentrated on academics and didn’t waste time and money on kicking a ball around and calling it school.
While reading this article I looked at the school website. They appear to be thriving.
All that said, I’m glad to see the education cabal imploding. We need more tradespeople and less lawyers and xxxxxx Studies majors
Many colleges grew themselves to meet the needs of baby boomers in the sixties and seventies.
People don’t get married and have children like they used to and so these smaller schools are all competing for the same students.
There just aren’t enough college age students in the 2000s to continue the college expansion plans of fifty years ago.
Well, this might help with SOME of the brainwashing of our youth, so that’s good.
Heard on the radio yesterday that a lot of WI ‘Indoctrination Stations’ are sweating it out, too. Lower enrollments all the way around.
Tech Colleges are holding steady, so that’s good news. We have more than enough ‘educated’ unemployable idiots as it is!
Demographics is destiny.
Many colleges are failures. I went to one, got a degree, then discovered that it wouldn’t transfer to a larger college so I could pursue a BA. I paid out thousands in costs, got nothing for my effort. So IMHO, many of them shouldn’t even be in business and if they are pruned, then so be it. I’d even go so far to say that many ought to be investigated for fraudulent claims and bogus degrees.
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