Posted on 06/19/2025 7:15:26 AM PDT by george76
Colleges get paid by the class enrolled, not the diploma provided.
(Change the incentives, of course, and everyone will get a diploma of zero meaning!)
Idiots went from being educated to be brainwashed and programmed to be a far-left kook.
How many of the 2.1 million were dei accepted, only to flunk out or quit?
At Hillsdale College, such a degree is still worth something to the extent that their students use only Hillsdale approved lenders who can offer rates below the federal rate because THEIR graduates are actually employable and at near zero risk for default.
DEI , The free-ride
As wise sage Joe Rogan said, why do we need colleges when everything you could possibly want to learn in college is on the internet for free?
With it no accident that they’re not on the federal dole.
Yes. Colleges were bloated because there was easy money from the feds. Now colleges will get squeezed on both ends. Way less students, and way less fed money.
Could one imagine a world where college athletes have to play for free?
DEI is a jobs for your peers effort at the express cost to those it claims to favor.
It is typical commie in that regard.
Plumbers, welders, diesel mechanics, automotive techs, hvac techs, electricians, they all make more money on average than a college grad with a liberal arts degree. And are happier.
Now, with a new President and a new Secretary of Education (Linda McMahon), the party is over for the unserious students coasting for gauzy degrees for which companies have neither need nor want.
Might Maynard G. Krebbs acolytes now, instead of collegiate playtime, be looking for...work?
BTTT
Companies liked to hire liberal arts degree holders, because they were known to see the bigger picture.
Not the narrow scope of engineering, science, accounting or healthcare degrees.
There used to be a lot of CEO’s with history or philosophy degrees!
What are liberal arts degrees worth nowadays? Universities, social workers and DEI offices are the only jobs available!
But these people still holds an University degree.
They think a lot about themselves and blame society for not providing the adequate renumeration! Thus the constant discrimination complains.
Once again, government is to blame
DOJ lawfare and decades of twisted “Civil Rights” legislation created the conditions
Followed by $$billions in government aid, loans, etc...
US higher education is woke politically bagged, tagged and in the truck
Trump has only started to fix it.
Since it took 60 years to build this monster, it may take a few years for attitudes and habits to change.
I don’t buy that. Most liberal arts/social science degree holders are narrow minded miseducated bigots. Of bigots in the most modern acceptable bigotry. As far as critical thinking skills go forget it! It’s a huge myth engineers/STEM educated people can’t see past the lab bench, test tube or program. Some are most aren’t just like some LA\SS degree holders can do more then wait tables.
D-ivisive
E-litist
I-ntolerant.
Just sayin’.
Remember that he ended up as a senator...
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