Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week.

Hessian

Well-Known Member
The law of unintended consequences!!
1) High School education ...will never earn a decent wage...all the statistics show college graduates outpace ALL HS degrees for a lifetime of earnings. (Perceived)
2) A large wedge of young people (of GREAT promise) cannot afford college! (Perceived)
3) TWO part answer to that: a) Offer Government sponsored student loans and b) We must make Community college FREE! (Perceived)
4) The students of low ability & motivation stumble along with a course here/there and never finish their degree wasting everybody's time and jump at the chance to march for socialized medicine, no college debts, guaranteed income, and the hopeful overthrow of capitalism...are generally worthless employees. They have taken on debts for courses,...enrolled in classes that eventually have to cancel because not enough remain in the class, frustrating professors and leaving adjunct professors without a stable income too. (OUTCOME)
5) Schools become more & more addicted to government grants as well as endowments. THEY then have to trim the fat meaning slash the humanities programs, keep the social-gender-studies because the 'incapables' enjoy the whine factor. Keep the sports while trying to drop the Title 9 obligations...(women's sports doesn't earn enough $$$)...and promote their STEM/Cyber security programs because the Government is funding that! (OUTCOME)
6) Smaller schools with fewer grants, lesser known programs, and smaller endowments: Die off. (OUTCOME)
7) Democrats scheme how to "save our children's education" with more taxes to attempt to salvage a system they actually helped to starve. (OUTCOME)
8) Employers & other universities cant get transcripts from closed schools...The value of the degrees declines. Localities lose consumers based upon the absent Faculty/staff & students...the local tax base declines..(OUTCOMES)
 

Ken King

A little rusty but not crusty
PREMO Member
At the rate cited (one a week) it will take over 100 years to get rid of them.
 
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