[M1903A1]

As long as colleges and universities enjoy a monopoly on credentialing -- namely, the bachelor's degree -- it's hard to imagine that the higher-ed world will face the same struggles that the American auto, steel, and newspaper industries have experienced, just to name a few sectors buffeted by change in recent decades.

All the monopolized "credentialing" in the world won't make a dime's worth of difference if students can't afford to go.

[kearnyirish2]

“All the monopolized “credentialing” in the world won’t make a dime’s worth of difference if students can’t afford to go.”

The State will determine who will go, and use financial pressure to make it so; no more white men. Instead we have ethnic tokens with degrees who can’t read, write, or speak. My school had a whole building dedicated to remedial courses; minorities spent years in there without earning any credits, until they dropped out from boredom. It is amazing how racially engineered our freshman class was, in comparison to our graduating class four years later - the experiment failed, but a lot of qualified students had been denied those seats in the meantime.