Posted on 11/28/2024 5:15:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
Public confidence in universities has sharply declined due to rising costs, administrative bloat, ideological bias, student debt issues, and discrimination concerns.
Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support.
A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility.
Gifting to most universities has been down for two consecutive years.
There is zero intellectual diversity on most university campuses.
Speakers with conservative viewpoints are often either disinvited or shouted down—and worse.
The federally guaranteed student loan program is in shambles. Some $1.7 trillion in outstanding loans were taken out by half of all college students.
Nearly a fifth are now not being paid back.
Marriage, child-rearing, and home ownership are all delayed by some 40 million indebted graduates, who can take decades to pay loans back.
The Biden administration demagogued the issue by illegally granting rolling student loan amnesties to win votes just before both the midterm and general elections. That proposed debt relief would be covered by taxpayers, over half of whom never went to college.
The expansion of student loan debt roughly correlates with universities raising their annual costs higher than the rate of inflation—largely due to administrative bloat.
Although the Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of using race and gender to adjudicate applications and hiring, universities are already seeking ways to circumvent the ruling.
Asian- and white-Americans for decades have been systematically, overtly, and supposedly with justification, discriminated against by ignoring or not requiring test scores and downplaying grade point averages.
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Require a class studying the horrors of marxism.
VDH ping
Endowments need to be used to repay all of the scam tuition they have been running
Small Town University is selling its campus to developers to provide luxury retirement housing for its alumni as well as other well-off people looking for a swell retirement.
The funds obtained will be used to buy an underutilized office building in a big city.
This plan will allow the University to have lower maintenance costs and a student body that can live cheaply at home.
Let’s see. Trump takes office in January. The new school year begins 7 months later in August. That would give the entire post K-12 establishment plenty of time to adjust to the new reality-would they? I’m talking about the community colleges becoming trade schools. 4 year universities giving out degrees in 3 years, thereby getting rid of bullshit required courses. Then there’s the taxpayers paying for only those STEM courses and forcing the student to pay for the other(useless) stuff.
18 year olds will not be ready to take on a full time job even if the HS teaches them a skilled trade. They’ll at least be ready.
It’s WAY overdue
WIKI
Endowments greater than $1 billion
Private schools
1 Harvard University Massachusetts $49.495 [billion]
....
82 Denison University Ohio $1.002 [billion]
Public schools
1 University of Texas System Texas $44.96 [billion]
....
53 Clemson University South Carolina $1.027 [billion]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment
Perhaps the universities should invest in their students and the federal government should stop issuing loans.
“...Gifting to most universities has been down for two consecutive years...”
Gee... I wonder why?
BTTT
“Asian- and white-Americans for decades have been systematically, overtly, and supposedly with justification, discriminated against by ignoring or not requiring test scores and downplaying grade point averages.”
Maybe some rich Silicon Valley titans should start STEM colleges. I would think that only civil engineering would require accreditation, so such programs might be started in future years.
Musk University?
There’s more. K-12 confined to the three R’s. School will be in session for 3 hours. AM or PM. The rest of the day could be spent on the trades, exercise, music-whatever interests the student. Plenty of time to do homework. Three 12 hour shifts at a local McJob on the weekends(Fri./Sat./Sun).
It teaches them the value of a dollar and most important instills a desire to get on with their lives, especially when it comes to saving. Throw in a $1k ROTH IRA upon birth(no withdrawal) and let them watch it grow. By the time they’re on their own they’ll know what the deals in life.
Physical Ed. Anybody remember how many were just not into it? For them it may have been music or just not being into athletics or competitive sports. I don’t think it made any difference in their physical well being. It’s about control. 3 hours a day will fix it.
Universities need DOGE, or DOUE!
They are so bloated!
Most of the teaching is done by graduate students and so called adjunct professors, both paid subminimum wages.
Professors mostly see themselves above teaching, or in worst case teaching just graduate level courses.
Universities are filled with paper pushing administrators, who spend most of the money on themselves.
Like most leftists, they like to talk about helping people, but they, in reality, skim those poor souls mercilessly!
The universities should be required to co-sign any federal or federally insured student loans.
cgbg-U got that right.
I have a list of institutions, I would NEVER give a penny!
Universities are on top of it, together with all those fraudulent charities.
The universities should be required to co-sign any federal or federally insured student loans.
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Here is a suggestion for Musk!
If the universities were on the hook for the student loans the first thing they would probably do is have Dave Ramsey-type courses required for all students in the first year.
If students flunked the course they would be booted out of college—the schools would not want financially illiterate students threatening the solvency of their institution.
Nearly a fifth are now not being paid back.
They shouldn’t be granted another loan of any type until they pay their debt is paid off.
Example must be made
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