American colleges and universities are failing in one of their most basic missions: to equip students with the tools they need for a career.
Many students graduate ill-prepared to earn a living and pay off the debt they’ve accumulated getting their degrees—40 percent of those who start college don’t finish within six years.
Additionally, students are often subject to indoctrination into socialist ideology. They face hostility toward opinions that don’t conform to the predominantly leftist thinking on campus.
They’re also immersed in identity politics that pit students of different backgrounds against one another.
Despite these problems, colleges continue to raise tuition. Because federal loan money is handed out with little scrutiny as to the student’s ability to pay it back, colleges have had free reign to raise prices at levels often double the inflation rate.
Flush with all that money, their first spending priority often isn’t the classroom but the bureaucracy.
From 1987 to 2012, America’s higher education system added more than half a million administrators, doubling the number of administrators relative to the number of faculty.
To pay for these ever-increasing costs, students are borrowing more money and taking on more and more debt.
And with federal loans accounting for much of the $1.5 trillion in outstanding student loan debt and more than a million people defaulting on their loans, taxpayers are picking up much of the tab for this broken system.
So, what’s the solution?
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wait, what? I thought they were supposed to be FREE!
ReplyDeleteAll of academia is a self-justifying, self-perpetuating, Progressive fiefdom. It's powerful and pervasive enough to actually dictate to government what education is and will be.
ReplyDeleteGet rid of Professor for life, Make them teach the subject and not indoctrination. They don't teach the subject to the max then fire them without compensation.
ReplyDeleteREMOVE colleges from Politics. Why is O'Malley "teaching" at UofM? Does he have any teaching credentials? No. College Coats go up because of all the political hacks sucking off the system. Their answer will likely be more Healthy Holly books (still plenty room in the dumpsters).
ReplyDeleteThe solution? Make it illegal to borrow money for college.
ReplyDeleteTrade Schools.
ReplyDeleteStop paying the heads of the colleges and universities $6 million salaries, car wit driver, free mansions and also get rid of the excessive amount of administrators. What professor is worth $650 K per year plus perks, especially when they have others teach their classes?
ReplyDeleteColleges have basically become a dumping ground for Dems who lost their elections. Owemalley and Mac Mathias for example.
ReplyDelete741 you are definitely onto something that Joe has mentioned several times. There still is a need and frankly growing by leaps, the need of qualified folks in the trade industry. Show of hands - how many find it hard to find good service folks to do HVAC, painting, flooring, plumbing, et al here on the shore? Most I talk too can't find the quality there used to be. Many are young, inexperienced, never getting that OJT from seasoned vets because those seasoned are retired.
ReplyDeleteHow does one (parents) try to connect with today's milli's that the "Trades" industry can be a very good way to make a living too?
Quit spending $600 per square foot to build the monuments
ReplyDeleteThe same as How Do we Stop Out Of Control ..food , clothing ,fuel ,heat ,ect ..ect ..the list goes on and on and on and on ..!!! Back the worthless paper currency with Gold !@#!$$$&!!!
ReplyDeleteNorthwest Woodsman: Wow! Great comments. The only thing I would add is that going to college is now expected of everyone. Consequently, they are full of youths that have neither the IQ or ability to succeed. They apply for and accept free money that partially goes to the greedy college and partially pays the the “student’s” living expenses. It is a form of welfare that eventually evaporates when they drop out or are academically suspended for failing to achieve even a 2.0 grade point average. College curriculum have, out of necessity, been dumbed down with regard to academic criteria with a corresponding increase in left wing political indoctrination.
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