re: The baws are getting their wish... Enrollments are down at universities

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There's going to be so many millionaires with all the new plumbers out there. I've been told in good authority they make $500k MINIMUM by 25

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That’s about double one would make with an art history degree

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I'm on the advisory board at one university and involved in recruiting students at a couple of others.

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You would be in charge of getting kids to take on mountains of debt.

There’s also a population shift happening where the numbers just aren’t there to have enrollment continue at prior levels. I’m hoping for a university bubble to pop.

and yet LSU was just bragging about the most degrees handed out in school history for umpteenth time in a row.... sure am proud of the degree mill my alma maters become

I'm on an advisory board at one plumbing company and we're sending these non-motivated soy boys to the fast food industry.

Quit having the federal government dump billions of dollars into the university system via student loans and you'll see how quickly prices come down.

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I know two women with Art History degrees. One of them is a curator at a museum in NYC, the other works at an auction house in Dallas. Both make outstanding money.

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But were they making at least $500K/year by 25 like Mingo’s plumbers?

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There’s also a population shift happening where the numbers just aren’t there to have enrollment continue at prior levels

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This is at least half of the story for sure. And the numbers will continue to skew in that direction as family sizes continue to shrink and the empowered women of today continue pushing back the age of child bearing up against the biological wall.

The other half of the story is the growing lack of relative value of a college degree. The costs are sky high and growing at the same time that the degrees are becoming significantly less valuable.

The lack of value is caused on the front end and the back end. By reducing the barrier for entry on the front end, more and more people who have no business going to college are being admitted (look at the push to eliminate ACT/SAT scores for admission).

And once in college, they seem to be mollycoddling these ‘customers’ as they indoctrinate them into activism, and water down the curriculum.

Graduates are seen as unprepared for the workplace, unable to think critically, lazy, and worse, a social justice warrior liability for the company.

Don't cling to a drasticaly outdated model, I guess?
Also, acknowledge ideological capture and do something about it?
Blaming plumbers for an education system that has been failing for a couple decades is kind of weird, though.