re: 99 colleges have closed permanently in the past year

quote:

---

It’s going to get worse. A growing number of people can’t afford college and the ROI on degrees isn’t what it used to be.

---

It's more of a demographic problem. There are fewer people who usually go to college to fill the seats. Obviosuly, it's only going to get worse. As institutions fight over a dwindling population, you'll start seeing entrance requirements slide.

That’s also a good point

quote:

---

Xavier

---

Used to have a really great reputation...

quote:

---

I started at Auburn in 1964. Tuition was $100 per quarter. In constant dollars, that would be $1,015 today. My nephew is paying over 30k as an out of state student which doesn't include 1500 hours of flying in flight school.

---

College tuition started skyrocketing in the early 1980s…

Right about the same time as this was created…


Coincidence?

I think not.

Bobby Jindal proposed combining SUNO with UNO, and the race hustlers came out of the woodwork screaming how dare he pick on a HBCU. Never mind that their graduation rate at the time was 4%. Louisiana has WAY too many 4 year universities, but legislators use the ones in their district as their personal playgrounds, and like every other decision that body makes, there’s enough horse trading to make sure state funds keep flowing into their local pork barrel.

This is a good thing, we can all admit that.

Higher education is not for everyone, nor needed for most jobs. Having young people start their lives with student loan debt was a horrible decision.

quote:

---

Tech should be only 4-year public school in North LA. Keep NSU. Keep McNeese. Obviously, keep LSU. Keep SLU.

Convert some others to 2-year schools, funneled to the closest 4-year school. Close the rest. Consolidate 4-year schools to one administration.

---

I'm ok with tech and even ulm

the South LA I'm actually ok with them

the bigger things are things like SUNO and shitty-performing schools


but the biggest thing is the fricking bloat and the shite degrees

like McNeese should be concentrating everything into nursing, teaching, engineering and other STEM/business degrees that the local industry demands. i could even deal with ag science as we have lots of farmers

but the shite that gets on my nerves is lib art degrees, the gen studies, the food sciences, the mass comm, the natural resource management, the school librarian, theatre arts, the music degrees

and im picking on McNeese which is actually one of the better schools but there is tons of bloat across all the schools in the university of Louisiana system

pick 1 in the south, one in the north for those lib art degrees. Hell pic 1 in the south and 1 in nola but like ULL, McNeese, Nichols, Southeastern etc dont all need to be offering the same damn lib art degrees

replace that with more stem offerings and business stuff that is concentrated on area industry like McNeese is doing for the LNG center

If i had to choose though...

LSU, Tech of course stay open

so have Tech as the main school in north LA as it could handle Shreveport and Monroe. but i would be ok with keeping LSUS if it wasn't mainly lib arts

but like ulm, Grambling, Southern Shreveport...close them. hell i would be ok with tech and Grambling staying open if Grambling could get the grad rate above 40% within 4 years and above 50% in 8 years. Grambling should be trying to be a big-time HBCU along with Southern if they are going to stay open. stop accepting just anyone, that is stupid


but something has to change up north...you got tech, ulm, NSU, Grambling, LSUS, centenary, all as 4-year universities


BR-Nola has too many too.


if i was to actually choose

Keep tech, keep Grambling, keep McNeese, keep ull, keep lsu, keep uno, keep southeastern, southern, Nicholes

from there, we can discuss maybe keeping northwestern or one of the others and possibly closing some of those

Possibly specialized trade schools like cosmetology schools or CNA programs. Those are less than two years but still have to go through a certification process for credentialing and to be able to offer financial aid.

quote:

---

Colleges today are mostly either vocational schools or indoctrination centers

---

For the vast majority of students it’s about the same as ever, and not as exciting as angry politicians and MAGA make it out to be.

You go to classes, major in something, and get a job afterwards. Maybe meet a future spouse while there. Then occasionally wish you were still there the rest of your life.

Insane there's 3 HBCU schools in LA. Or that they exist anywhere.

Tech puts the most elite of them to shame