Posted on 03/13/2025 7:09:58 AM PDT by Nifty
“If I didn’t have FAFSA right now, I don’t know what I would do next,” Hossian said. “I don’t want to take money from my parents.”
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As soon as the student loan stuff is made “private” again, the college scene will decay fast. If colleges did not have their endowments squared away…schools will be going out of business at an alarming rate.
The college environment will look very different in 2030.
Works for me. College is a scam with few exceptions
The amount of money being spent on education is astronomical and the 25-30,000 per student per we spend is only the tip of the iceberg
Test scores will go up.
I wonder how much is improved at colleges by cutting back the DOE? For example, if a college has to spend less money for bureaucratic red tape for DEI and such, does that mean more money for actual education?
In addition the technology area is changing at an amazing rate.
More than 90% of what colleges do can be done on-line with no massive brick and mortar infrastructure and minimal administrative overhead needed.
AI should be able to design a curriculum to meet any student’s needs—and it will turn out that most do not need to go to any specific physical space.
For STEM specialties that require labs there could be new institutions created to meet those needs at reasonable fees per use.
“I don’t want to take money from my parents.”
That is some weak argument right there.
Forget fed aid. Let Florida provide same for legal residents of Florida. The rest will just have to pay or go home.
Dept of Ed spent $4.1 TRILLION since its inception in 1980. The USA went from #1 in education globally to #40.
Now “correlation does not imply causation” but that is mighty suspicious (I’m being wry, there). OF COURSE our decline is due to federal money and federal meddling. There’s nothing else remotely close that could have caused that.
The Dept of Ed pays for graduate “researchers” in education who spew out new education teaching fads every two or three years that every school has to adopt. Every fad is worse than the previous one and drives results down. Cut off the funding to “Teachers’ Colleges” and “researchers” in education. Teaching kids isn’t rocket science.
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“I’m really concerned about that because the people who haven’t applied right now are the folks who don’t have enough information,” he said. “These are the folks who are first-gen, lower income kids, the folks who maybe didn’t do as well in high school that at the last minute might decide to go to college.”
didnt do as well in high school but decide to go to college translates to “free money”
Here come the wave of articles from the leftist media spelling doom and gloom. However, the sky is NOT falling.
Colleges will have to cut their Taylor Swift and Porn Studies classes.
I prefer to take it at gunpoint from strangers.
Hussein?
” “I don’t want to take money from my parents.””
But its okay to take money from parents as long as they are somebody else’s parents.
How about you pay for it yourself? How about you forgo college (its a waste of money anyway) and get a JOB? Maybe in auto manufacture as there will be a lot of those jobs out there soon.
Bingo!!! In person classes for many things are overrated.
I am a very experienced software engineer but have NEVER written a single line of code for mobile apps. 2 weeks ago I spent 16 hours taking 2 online classes in mobile app programming. Since then I have spent about 20 more hours actually coding. Now I have a fully functional, working mobile app for iPhones, iPads, and Android phones to manage my collection of scally caps and pins.
I am going to take a couple more smaller online classes over the next few weeks to learn how to use the camera in my app and how to generate pdf reports from my app.
Zero classroom time and in the course of 4-6 weeks taking only online classes and working on my own, I will have a commercial quality mobile app.
No thanks to the Department of Education.
No thanks to any college or university.
Total cost under $100.
AI is not what most people think it is. They think it is the robot from Lost in Space. It isn’t. AI is certainly Artificial but it is not Intelligence. It is a very large decision tree with a search engine and some algorithms to simulate grammar so that it will resemble thought. The biggest advancement of AI is the ability to keep a thread going. Usually you would ask a question and then ask for clarification and the original question would be lost so that no elaboration would take place.
I had a situation where I was doing multiple searches and trying different ways of asking a question and I thought about trying ChatGPT. I asked the question and elaborated upon it and when it was finished it had come to the same conclusion as all of my search queries had come up with.
Not saying AI will not be actually intelligent in the future but right now we have a perception that is promulgated by the same people as the ones who have gotten everyone convinced that humans are causing climate change.
Online education is great but trading face piercings through the mail isn’t the same experience as showing them off and trading them in person.
Student aid has become the "tote the note used car business". It's criminal. If Liz Warren wants a consumer finance protection bureau, she should start by ending the student loan racket.
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