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American colleges in crisis with enrollment decline largest on record

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Re: American colleges in crisis with enrollment decline largest on record

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Post by throwawaysleep »

This works for now, but what happens next recession when all those degree requirements return?

This isn't meant as judgemental, but people only employable due to the labour shortage and only accepted into their field due to the labour shortage are also the people who will struggle most come a lack of a labour shortage.

Re: American colleges in crisis with enrollment decline largest on record

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Post by tauwauwau »

I remember from some video on youtube that colleges in US used to be cheaper because government gave a lot of money to subsidise education. It stopped when government figured out that it was essentially paying to create citizens with progressive ideas and critical thought. There may be a lot of things wrong with colleges but they are essential and should be saved.

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Post by recuter »

Shame that. Last time I drove past a college in the US it was the day the hat sorts people into fraternities or however that works and there was a great big cardboard sign on the lawn with a poignant message scribbled in sharpie: "Thank you for your daughters"

Quite the facial expressions on parents dropping off their kids and good chunk of life savings at these ivory towers.

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Post by Arainach »

swagasaurus-rex wrote: post #9
birdyrooster wrote: post #4

The stigma of not going to college is going away.

I hope so. You can learn from youtube same as a professors lecturing.

Most people cannot. Not only are retention and learning radically different, the vast majority of people do not have the self discipline to go through the same amount of content. If a class isn't something you're immediately interested in and no one's forcing you to go, most people end up abandoning or skipping it. Watching only the fun parts or only the parts that seem to you to be immediately relevant to your current goal is not an education.

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Post by vkou »

sourcecodeplz wrote: post #16
jwilber wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When’s the last time you attended university?

Just a couple of years ago. Masters.

I hate to break it to you, but thirty and sixty years ago, colleges were as full of lib as they are today, it's just that most of the radical causes they were getting behind have since had the benefit of the decades it takes to make it into the mainstream. (Or, like communism, have quietly been forgotten about.)
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