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2019-09-04 Home Front: Culture Wars
Expert Predicts up to 25 Percent of American Colleges Will Close in Next Two Decades
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 01:31|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ]  Top

#1 We need far fewer colleges, a far lower % of 18 year-olds going on to four-year colleges, and far MORE vocational training & trade apprenticeship programs.

Only about 20% of the population needs a college degree - and that's roughly the % of the population that can handle higher-order abstract reasoning of the sort needed to do advanced math, science and other forms of complex analysis.

Every other American should be taught a skilled trade - and our corporations should be given every possible incentive to hire these trained and skilled Americans.
Posted by Lex 2019-09-04 01:55||   2019-09-04 01:55|| Front Page Top

#2 They will do as Hospitals and news medias do and merge. Not finding a suitor, closure certainly. I suspect online activity will dramatically increase(last gasp). As the population ages and influx of immigrants poor and lacking skills, standards will be reduced. 70% of students at our local college are on assistance programs now. Minorities of the normally privileged group.
Posted by Dale 2019-09-04 04:18||   2019-09-04 04:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Too little, too late?
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2019-09-04 05:05||   2019-09-04 05:05|| Front Page Top

#4 End the faculty and administers enrichment student loan program. If you want college money earn it or commit yourself to service programs like those for Public Health and the GI Bill.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-04 05:15||   2019-09-04 05:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Just in from Norway. They are having problems but Sweden much worse.
Posted by Dale 2019-09-04 05:28||   2019-09-04 05:28|| Front Page Top

#6 the worst is yet to come.


Not everyone would agree with that.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-09-04 07:51||   2019-09-04 07:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Trim tuition by jettisoning the Administrators who don't teach, the SJW majors that they force other productive majors to take courses in
Posted by Frank G 2019-09-04 08:40||   2019-09-04 08:40|| Front Page Top

#8 I second Lex's proposal.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-09-04 08:44||   2019-09-04 08:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Lex's proposal is solid, but it is contingent upon the return of American industry, a growing economy, and a willingness to hire American tradesmen, not less costly Amigos.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 08:48||   2019-09-04 08:48|| Front Page Top

#10 The above proposal of course assumes also an end to open borders and an overhaul of immigration policy to favor those with advanced skills. No more of this insane policy of swamping our low end labor market with an imported underclass.
Posted by Lex 2019-09-04 08:51||   2019-09-04 08:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Too few, too long.

50% 5 years.

Hopefully.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-09-04 11:51||   2019-09-04 11:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Faster please.

These are criminal institutions. The Children come out of them dumber when they came out of the Womb
Posted by newc 2019-09-04 14:14||   2019-09-04 14:14|| Front Page Top

#13 The number of six figure administrators who do either absolutely nothing or who perform completely unnecessary and outright silly tasks is terrifying. Even more terrifying is the fact that the college eagerly lets go of faculty and lower level staff (secretaries, etc) and downsizes every department and area of the college so that they can keep all of these goons (and whenever possible hire more).
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-09-04 15:39||   2019-09-04 15:39|| Front Page Top

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