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
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You all are right, too much expense for not enough pay. They only college degrees worth earning are those that give you a marketable skill—nursing, engineering, statistics, etc.
Otherwise if you are interested in history, English, political science and the like you can teach yourself. There are plenty of self-taught re-enactors who know more about British, American, Spanish and French history than many college grads.
Some of it is about their covid policies. Imagine being a year away from your degree and being told you can’t finish unless you have the death shot. Imagine being isolated, and having to wear masks everywhere on campus. Imagine paying for real classes and then being stuck only watching videos online.
Then there are those liberals who are just too terrified of catching Covid. So you have two opposing groups who each have their reasons for not wanting to participate.
Because no matter what anyone says, college is a product.
To be successful, the customer has to be either forced to purchase a product or be happy with the results of the purchase.
For colleges, they had both ends for a while. To get a middle class lifestyle, you needed a college education (hitting both points). For a period, it would be a case where both seller and buyer were happy.
But the market shifted more and more to “Forced” purchases. The cost became higher, because the seller, the school, had no feedback from the customer. They had to buy the education, and the loans had to be paid back.
As time went on, the costs got to the point the product wasn’t worth it anymore. Yeah, you can get a different job with a degree but you are competing with people who have no debt, a H1B visa, and are subsidized by a foreign country. When a 22 year figures out they have a house payment they can’t discharge via bankruptcy, working a low paying job, and no place to live the attraction to going to Chico state fades. They tell their younger siblings and friends, or their own children (assuming they have any) and the pool of student shrinks.
So the customer stopped buying a product.
Now this doesn’t even touch the blatant racism at the schools, the actual hatred of any dissenting opinion, the the creation of an environment that actively discriminates the best and highest reward potential of the possible customers of the product.
In short if a kid is on the bubble to go to college or not, all the incentives are pushing him to NOT go.
Now the next step will be pressure by the schools to mandate people buy their product. Higher barriers to entry to fields. Certifications. Maybe even extending mandatory education through college.
But at the end of the day it is a product the customers no longer want to buy at the level they used to.
Major in accounting or STEM.
In terms of gaining real education, the internet has largely made these massive, big education, brick-and-mortar institutions obsolete. These so-called, cathedrals of learning, are massive black holes that suck in endless tons of money to feed their gluttonous salaries, pensions, and perks.
Cost is a huge factor. When I started teaching at a small Midwestern university in 1990, tuition was $1800 a year. When I retired in 2018, tuition had skyrocketed to $13,100. Not surprisingly, enrollment during that time plunged from 14,100 to 5,300.
Vocational jobs are a bigger bang for the buck, and more marketable. But who wants to really work for a living?
I wouldn’t like to be shackled to one of those places. It would become ultra boring in a week or so.
STEM graduates will be forced out by H1B workers.
Watching the last kid I know get his acceptance letters. UNH & Michigan, you’re looking at tuition of around $55,000 per year. Total price for NYU, including room + board is over $80,000 per year.
One of the three is offering a free ride, excluding room + board.
In 1980, tuition for me was only $5,000 per year.
There's also the "demographic cliff" (the sharp dropoff in college-age students coming in 2025 due to the low birth rates during the recession that began in 2007).
Caveat emptor.
There are lots of leftists who dont want to jab their children either.
Let’s see...overpriced, woked, a personal safety risk to my son, a reputational risk to my son, with marginal utility outside of STEM.
Community college first.
Lessee, could be:
* Insistence on vax and mask mandates despite the rest of society giving up on that nonsense
* People got used to learning online during the pandemic and now realize they can just get a University of Phoenix degree without all the BS.
* Gen Z’ers looked at the Millennials and realized “I don’t want to go into serious debt to get a diploma that won’t make me enough money to pay off the debt”
“major student enrollment declines between 2020 and 2022.”
Gee, I wonder why.
It’s become painfully obvious the only worthwhile degrees are scientific/math. Preferably concrete science, as opposed to guessing-game topics like biology (as we can see via the COVID hysteria).
“* People got used to learning online during the pandemic and now realize they can just get a University of Phoenix degree without all the BS”
Actually, I still am doing virtual education tutoring at college and I can tell you, it’s clear people hate the virtual.
Plus, you have to have multiple “jabs” of an experimental ineffective and often harmful non-vaccine.
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