re: Do tiny worthless universities dilute the value of actual universities

Yes, they devalue public universities in general, especially in Louisiana. Many were created when Louisiana's population was at its height, before the steady decline started.


A few large universities with a huge array of resources and highly paid instructors would benefit the state far better than a bunch of tiddlywink colleges always operating on a shoestring budget.

Good luck getting legislators to agree to defund the tiddlywink college in their area. Easy to create. Impossible to end.

As far as HBCUs go, I have no problem with private ones, but it's the 21st century. Should we have public segregated colleges that have far lower standards for African Americans? Yet -bizarrely- if you point out this objective fact, you are called racist. Odd.

Truth is, the biggest thing devaluing universities today is universities. Outside of STEM, they have become useless, but you generally need a degree for most professional jobs, so we're forced to go into debt for these worthless certificates.

Academia is a petty, small minded ideological wasteland.