[MrEdd]

It is the twilight of the university system.

Technical fields can be obsolete in 20 or 25 years.
Academic training at the beginning of a career no longer suffices till retirement.

Very likely, portable Internet based training programs that are arising now will grow in prestige and continue to get cheaper until the aging university system collapses. Much the way Internet news is killing newspaper and magazines.

[who knows what evil?]

Very likely, portable Internet based training programs that are arising now will grow in prestige and continue to get cheaper until the aging university system collapses.

Good news.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I agree. And the sooner the better.

[pepperdog]

Can't happen soon enough, we've already lost two generations, or more, to their liberal indoctrination. I don't know that the country will ever recover.

[El Gato]

Technical fields can be obsolete in 20 or 25 years. Academic training at the beginning of a career no longer suffices till retirement.

But, at least in technical fields, its the research faculty and the grad students, who are creating that change.

Good Lord, do you think professors never take another class, or do any work on their own, once they are tenured? Might be true in some fields, but technical people, scientists, engineers, and mathmaticians are doing what they do *because they like it*. Most of 'em do pretty well at keeping up.

Most of your "internet based training programs" are staffed by... faculty. Some are staffed bya mix of faculty and practitioners in the field.