re: West Virginia University going down the Toilet

The suggestions in this thread at how to fix universities in the US are retarded.

You used to have to be scholarly to get in and stay in. Now it's an expensive glorified high school or community College for most of the student body.

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failing to fulfill the critical role they are supposed to play to our society.

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College is no longer preparing kids for the for the jobs they will face or for the basic realities of the real world.

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Clearly you understand the "role they are supposed to play to our society" and aren't trying to make universities trade schools

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Idaho, NH, Maine, Montana, and Vermont are all comparable states and their flagship universities have half the enrollment of WVU

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Your comparisons are strange, in my opinion. For example, Idaho State and Boise State both have higher enrollment than University of Idaho. Private BYU Idaho has the largest undergraduate enrollment in the state.

Maine has a branch campus at every wide spot in the road.

Montana State is the better school in the state; I wouldn’t consider University of Montana the flagship.

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How many campuses could we close, cut the college and turn into immigrant micro cities?

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These ideas only sound less radical after shite hits the fan and we become a one world government. You ate my thread. I’m 34 and have two young kids. I don’t really care about such radical changes.

Look at the number of faculty. Now look at the number of administrators. You’ll find your problem there.

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A kid can still major in ballet,

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if he pays for it - or can scrounge up a sponsor on his own - NO STATE MONEY for anything other than STEM courses.

And nobody should loan money for 'college expenses' other than the college itself. Let THEM gauge the 'scholastic aptitude' and 'worth of the degree' being sought wrt the ability of THIS person working in THAT field being able to pay back the loan.

IF the college itself doesn't agree that this particularly combination of person/degree is likely to be in a position to repay the loan, then THEY should be the only one LOSING MONEY on the 'deal.'

In fact, they should not even waste space in their classrooms if it is filled with people who they KNOW cannot on their won, using the degree they are seeking, repay the cost of the tuition and housing associated with that form of study. Receive that shite for the wealthy neer-do-wells who just need to add more gloss to their appearances.

I do NOT want to donate one red CENT to it.

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Those college administrators are really smart people, they’ll figure it out.

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Despite their hefty compensations they have already admitted they suck snd cannot figure it out. They have already hired at least two different consulting firms and neither could figure it out as well.

The kids running up 6 digit student loans getting useless degrees, only to have the Dims want to forgive all those bad choices is where cuts need to happen first. Spending all that money for a degree that only leaves the recipient qualified to schelp fast food or some other minimum wage job is a huge drain.

Universities are happy to offer all these useless degrees, in many cases, keep adding them to keep pace with the work playbook, and will be resistant to cutting any of them.