Posted on 04/07/2022 12:52:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff
we have too many so called universities
“There are plenty of self-taught re-enactors who know more about British, American, Spanish and French history than many college grads.”
One fine day in February 2000 I’m standing on the Lexington Green and a couple American college kids asked me if anything important had ever happened there. I’m still gobsmacked at that.
And I’ve found too many reenactors who are still disgusting liberals.
I don’t know how these people can hate this country so much, if they know so much.
Maybe the libtards should advocate in favor or true families and against abortion.
The trick is finding a quality hands-on college for the trades. Currently, there are many that have it in their minds that you can teach hands-on with 50% online content. They will fail as the majority of students despise online content and want a hands-on experience with traditional instruction.
One of my friends has a daughter in her first year at Belmont Univ. in Nashville, TN. The tuition/R&B and various fees are $52K per year, so figure $220,000 for 4 years and she will need to do an internship.
She is in the kind of program that in order to get a job will need to relocate to a major city so figure right out the shoot needing an apartment and all that.
I cannot imagine her getting a job that pays anywhere near what she will need to pay back her loans. Oh well not my problem. My friend does not have a big income.
I'm nudging him towards getting a marketing degree, to add to his practical experience in sales. I'll push harder when the colleges are back in full operation.
I would have done poorly in a Zoom environment.
The population bubble of the millennials has passed through schools. The demographics of the US are not pointing towards a ton of growth.
AND, a lot of kids are opting for non-college jobs
If I were investing in secondary education…I would be shorting.
A lot of us were saying, several years ago, that the next bubble to burst would be the higher education bubble. Personally, I was wondering what was taking so long.
I majored in accounting, had a great professor.
Big firms appear to have gone woke, and are dominated by females. Defense Contract Audit Agency is 60+% female, and they're mostly Karens or entitled WOC. Worst 3 years of my life.
If a male is going for that degree, do it with the knowledge that they're better off working outside of public accounting. I grew bored with preparing taxes, there's no longer any artistry/strategy with preparing tax returns, thanks to the computer programs out there.
It's different doing business returns, of course. I'm semi-retired, working for a family with several businesses. Great landing spot, very little stress. I leave the tax returns to their CPA. I'm just a plain, old bookkeeper now, and I'm fine with that.
Chinese students not coming here anymore?
(But applications doubled over the past 2 years to the university of California due to the dropping of the SAT requirement.)
I think it’s mostly young women applying though.
Young men are only 40% of US colleges, and dropping. Young men are only 30% of UK colleges, and dropping.
Not good for the future and our sons. All professionals and doctors and lawyers and engineers and executives will soon be women at current rates…
That’s actually good to hear about UCB and UCLA. I’d heard the opposite this year: lots of CA high schoolers with excellent grades etc being rejected or placed on waiting lists…for most UC campuses.
I smiled at your reference to Chico State—my 3rd son is a freshman there. He’s studying Computer Science and loves it. He already can get good coding jobs without a degree but many employers still won’t hire programmers without one. College (with a decent major) is still the ticket to the upper-middle class. Even at Chico State 😀
“serve non-traditional students” by lowering standards, giving A’s to everyone, rejecting SAT, GRE and LSAT scores, and stop requiring stressful things like tests and homework. Colleges simply want students to pay $70,000 a year and then get a degree that is empty and useless. Want to work at Bayer or Amgen? Start working there at age 16 in administration and then advance to $100K a year job. College is an obstacle and not an aid.
“$70k per year for a worthless woked education doesn’t sell anymore”
If I were an 18 year old white male today I would not consider going to a 4 year college. I can’t imagine spending four years listening to woke academics and students insisting my gender and skin color made me responsible for every bad thing in the world. Instead I would learn a marketable trade, and save my money while mastering the trade. By age 25 I would own my own business which I would grow through outstanding quality, reliable customers service, and the recommendations of satisfied customers.
One of my neighbors became a journeyman welder after high school. He lived below his means, went out on his own, and through hard work, determination, and the encouragement of his wife who also worked the business he built a welding business that today involved in major construction projects across several states. The contacts he made as he grew his business gave him the idea for another business which has also grown into a major success.
Another person I know overcame drug addition and a stint in prison after high school. He learned the carpentry trade and started renovating and flipping houses. Today he is a well respected property developer.
Both of the men I mentioned above were multimillionaires by their mid 40’s. Their education was in real world school of hard knocks. Neither would work (be a slave) for a corporation or government agency.
Why go $200,000 in debt earning a worthless degree when you can spend four years earning money while developing a marketable skill that will enable you to become financially independent?
LOL
If you like audible books, look up Tom Stanger
Jimmy the intern is from Chico state. Many of my fellow engineers love it, and make jokes about Chico State as a result!
Important note: Before Covid, left wing schools were experiencing declining enrollment, and in some cases a LOT of it. So what we need is a comparison chart of radical leftist schools, more mainstream schools, and the few conservative schools: and if their enrollment is declining, than how much, *relative* to each other.
I suspect that conservative schools, like Hillsdale, are not having declines, but *increases* in enrollment.
Just how old are you, Ken? :)
Full discloser: I don't really know but I would've thought it would be much more than that.
I had a friend who bought a Johnson Outboard Motor franchise circa 1979 and he told me that for $100,000 about all he got was a sign.
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