Inside the Enrollment Cliff Hitting US Colleges
https://youtu.be/aZJZV-FODqk
Colleges are making themselves obsolete
https://spectator.com/article/colleges-making-themselves-obsolete/?edition=us
Peter Wood:
But as teaching standards have fallen, tuition and expenses have surged. Americans now carry a total of $1.863 trillion in student-loan debt. That’s the second largest sum of consumer debt, behind home mortgages. A house, however, has intrinsic value. A college degree is worth only what the graduate can make of it. Student-loan debt impedes graduates who want to get married or change jobs. It cannot be defaulted on. It can linger even into one’s retirement years.
Then there’s the matter of waste and bloat. More than half the salaried employees of colleges and universities are now in “student services” rather than education. What students get for their tuition dollar is a full range of counseling, stroking, reassurance and diversion from the actual acquisition of knowledge and skills.
https://youtu.be/aZJZV-FODqk
https://spectator.com/article/colleges-making-themselves-obsolete/?edition=us
Peter Wood:
But as teaching standards have fallen, tuition and expenses have surged. Americans now carry a total of $1.863 trillion in student-loan debt. That’s the second largest sum of consumer debt, behind home mortgages. A house, however, has intrinsic value. A college degree is worth only what the graduate can make of it. Student-loan debt impedes graduates who want to get married or change jobs. It cannot be defaulted on. It can linger even into one’s retirement years.
Then there’s the matter of waste and bloat. More than half the salaried employees of colleges and universities are now in “student services” rather than education. What students get for their tuition dollar is a full range of counseling, stroking, reassurance and diversion from the actual acquisition of knowledge and skills.
The End of College as We Know It
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-end-of-college-as-we-know-it-e222ab3d
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-end-of-college-as-we-know-it-e222ab3d
My take from Jan 2022: Is the US higher education bubble about to burst?
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/590971-will-the-us-higher-education-bubble-finally-burst
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/590971-will-the-us-higher-education-bubble-finally-burst