Media is already dying (newspapers are dead)..is higher ed next?

Hopefully.

IMO one way to control tuition costs without drastically altering the structure of universities:

Eliminate federally subsidized loans. Guaranteed credit with no collateral for ANYONE who applies if fricking lunacy, and colleges know they can squeeze out every last bit of the money to pay for their overbloated administrative and bureaucratic staffs.

Make colleges co-sign and take on obligations re: the student. That would eliminate a lot of the bullshite sectors reeeaaaal quick.

Don't know about that but it is the looming financial dot.com bubble waiting to burst..it is a cottage industry

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Don't know about that but it is the looming financial dot.com bubble waiting to burst..it is a cottage industry

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I understand that the student loan market is now well over a trillion dollars, but how exactly do those 'burst' in a similar manner to our other bubbles? Someone with financial knowledge please explain.

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Yes, universities rarely teach legitimate skills needed in the workplace

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A university is not a trade school. Its mission is to educate, not to supplement the workforce.

I do think there will be a culling in higher ed especially with smaller universities that charge exorbitant amounts of money.

For example, it's $21k/year for an out-of-state student to attend the University of Montevallo, a small liberal arts school in small town Alabama. Almost $11k for in-state. That's just tuition.

These type of schools also rarely produce the kind of scholarship you would expect to see from prestigious universities. So you essentially have highly qualified teachers making $60k+ (I know someone personally there, and he makes $100k teaching a 3/3 load and hasn't been published in a decade). The school then supplements its instruction with adjuncts who are grossly underpaid for the work they do.

I have firsthand experience at a large state school and was headed toward a PhD at one of the nation's most prestigious universities. I do not believe the larger, more established schools are as "SJW" as the smaller ones. It's there; but it can taken as a being part of a liberal education: one that expands the mind, teaches critical thinking, and helps young people ask difficult questions. These schools often have a good ROI and is documented all over the net.

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Judging from the quality of logic contained in the OP, apparently higher education has been dead to you for a long time. Especially hilarious considering the forum you're on.

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judging from everyone's response but yours, i'm not alone in my thinking.

just like 'minute clinics' in grocery stores and walgreens have virtually eliminated your typical crappy doctor office experience for the sniffles, online and FREE universities that deep dive into the current and latest technology and workplace development will replace your shitty 4 year higher ed quasi-government institutions of propaganda.

Some people have blind loyalty to schools just because they attended one and think higher ed can do no wrong I guess. The indoctrination worked.

This is why people are terrified of the people who voted for Trump.



I'm not saying it's justified in general, but OP wants to do away with higher education.