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College enrollment: Why are colleges struggling to get new students?
FingerLakes1 ^ | 4/5/22 | Staff Report

Posted on 04/07/2022 12:52:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Hundreds of two- and four-year colleges saw major student enrollment declines between 2020 and 2022.

Enrollment in traditional undergraduate programs has been trending downward since around 2012.

Ryan Lufkin, Senior Director for Instracture Canvas, says the pandemic turbocharged those enrollment losses. As result, higher education has been searching for a way to serve non-traditional students

(Excerpt) Read more at fingerlakes1.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: collegeenrollment; education; h1b
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What a paradox. The commie ideology grooming mills(college) are losing enrollment, blaming it on their mail-in fraud voter savior, covid.

Well anyways, if I were a parent, I wouldn't send my kid to college, now days.

Locally, the UT-Arington student government is a modern French revolution.

I wish I could post a link but forgot.

1 posted on 04/07/2022 12:52:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

$70k per year for a worthless woked education doesn’t sell anymore


2 posted on 04/07/2022 12:53:37 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: DallasBiff

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3 posted on 04/07/2022 12:55:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

get more asians


4 posted on 04/07/2022 12:56:38 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: 2banana
$70k per year for a worthless woked education doesn’t sell anymore

Especially when it's done via zoom from you parents basement the past two years.

5 posted on 04/07/2022 12:58:02 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff

The bang/buck ratio is rather low, and getting lower.


6 posted on 04/07/2022 12:58:33 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: DallasBiff

I screwed up and sent my son to college. At the time I could have bought him a McDonalds.


7 posted on 04/07/2022 12:59:12 PM PDT by IC Ken
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To: DallasBiff

Because their foolish libtard propaganda disguised as an education sucks that’s why 🤪


8 posted on 04/07/2022 1:00:14 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: IC Ken
I screwed up and sent my son to college. At the time I could have bought him a McDonalds.

How much is a McD franchise?

9 posted on 04/07/2022 1:00:40 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Because colleges today are putting out a product that nobody wants. They are producing buggy whips.

I wrote this piece in 2020 from the perspective of college graduates not being able to pay off their expensive university degrees.


I believe the problem is that universities are putting out a product that there is no demand for.

I believe it's a three-fold issue.

  1. The job market isn't paying the salaries.
  2. The students aren't pursuing the marketable degrees.
  3. The universities are cranking out graduates without regard to whether the job market is there for the graduates. In other words, they are graduating buggy whips.
The causes for #1 are two-fold:

  1. The jobs are being off-shored to lower-cost geographies.
  2. The cheaper workers are being imported via H-1B visas and are displacing our graduates.
The causes for #2 are two-fold:

  1. The students are choosing social-justice degrees with no anchoring in reality.
  2. The K-12 schools are socially promoting students who either aren't ready for college or are better suited to trade studies.
The causes for #3 are two-fold:

  1. The students have been socially indoctrinated to believe the only way to succeed is with a college degree, so everyone must now go to college.
  2. The change to government-sponsored student loans has made it easy for universities to pad their enrollments in order to get the funding to sustain their tenures and research programs.
I believe that if there is a market balance between supply and demand then the price paid will equal the cost plus profit. If the universities were balancing the supply of graduates with the demand for graduates, this would mean that the graduates were being paid a salary that allowed them to pay off their loans plus their living expenses.

The fact is that the university degree market is completely unbalanced and out of whack. Young students may be making good decisions to pursue a degree, but many are too uninformed at that age to understand that the universities are glutting the market right now. The universities have built up a capital investment in professors and manufactured an inventory of graduates that can't be sold.

The university result will eventually be the same as a business selling unwanted products: their inventory of unsold graduates will lose their value (in terms of alumni donations, university brand reputation, etc.), and the university might eventually go out of business if they can't get new student enrollments because the word is out that their graduates are unemployable.

Is all of this the fault of the student loan scam? Is it the result of students making bad career decisions? Is it the fault of businesses that are looking for cheaper workers or exporting jobs? Is it the fault of universities hungry for students flush with loan cash that they keep taking them in regardless of the ability of the job market to absorb the graduates?


-PJ

10 posted on 04/07/2022 1:01:21 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Why should someone pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to be indoctrinated with communist garbage and become dumber as a result? They’re not gaining any life or work skills and expect to make a ton of money afterwards while complaining about their student loans and barista jobs.


11 posted on 04/07/2022 1:01:55 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: DallasBiff

We are starting to see an inflection point downward for the “Big Education” scam. Another plus for our side.


12 posted on 04/07/2022 1:02:26 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: DallasBiff

They are woke and going broke?


13 posted on 04/07/2022 1:02:28 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DallasBiff

Because they are wising up to being harvested for their student loan dollars.


14 posted on 04/07/2022 1:02:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Depopulate the depopulationists. --FJB)
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To: DallasBiff

Colleges are such crap. They started raising prices hardcore when I was graduating and it got far worse after. A real good school, but nobody I knew could get a job irl afterwards from it either.


15 posted on 04/07/2022 1:04:19 PM PDT by Houserino
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To: central_va
re> How much is a McD franchise?

Back then they were around 100K.

16 posted on 04/07/2022 1:05:28 PM PDT by IC Ken
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To: DallasBiff
Political Indoctrination.
Blatant Anti-Racism Racism and Anti-Sexist Sexism disfavoring young White and Asian males.
Outrageously expensive for very little return.
Admitting and graduating less qualified students have hollowed out the value of a degree.
Meaningless non marketable Degrees.
University Professors living in insane alternate realities.

Just to mention a few.

17 posted on 04/07/2022 1:08:23 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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My 3rd is off to college this Fall.

The “good but not valedictorian” friends got into UCLA and Berkeley - unheard of in years past with kids having similar race/grades/gender.

Mine is going out of the country. Costs less and no gender bullshit to deal with.


18 posted on 04/07/2022 1:09:58 PM PDT by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: DallasBiff

As in all things, Follow The Money.

They need to keep the cash flowing so they can over-pay idiot Wokesters like Lizzie “Fauxahontis” Warren $400,000 a year to teach one class.


19 posted on 04/07/2022 1:10:16 PM PDT by Iron Munro ( Joe Biden - Inventor Of The First New Language since Esperanto)
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Leftist Colleges Are IMPLODING as Conservative Colleges SURGE!!!

https://rumble.com/v10070r-leftist-colleges-are-imploding-as-conservative-colleges-surge.html


20 posted on 04/07/2022 1:12:00 PM PDT by Signalman
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