Good news: 4 million fewer students in college now than there were 10 years ago
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I went to college.. but seriously fuck college.. I haven’t asked what degree a person has in the last 7 people I hired.
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As it should be. Their current skills, what they can offer, their ambitions and their ability and interest in acquiring new skills are all WAY more important than if they carry 200 grand in debt or not
I am a university prof, seriously college is overrated and everybody being pushed into it has turned them into profit center degree mills that just push students through regardless of knowledge acquisition.
I would prefer to hire someone who smartly avoided college, saved themselves from being a debt slave and went into the work force instead. Many were duped but to continue going along with the scam is just insanity at this point.
Brainwashing centers losing their appeal...
I suspect no jab no entry made a good dint in oz applications
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Universities and colleges across America are keenly aware of a demographic nightmare unfolding more every year as the total available amount of young adults set to enter college has been declining steadily. I have observed some stupid administrators trying to put a positive spin on what the demographic statistics clearly show is and will be a drastic fallout of enrollment numbers due to the lack of potential students (nothing short of a slow moving disaster for higher ed).
Frankly universities are overall bloated with far too many non faculty positions. This along with far too many expensive non educational purposed facilities and far too many useless throw away areas of study that only serve to create professionals at dividing and balkanizing society and populations internally against itself.
Add to this all the injured kids from this vaccine genocide, enrollment drops are going to accelerate faster than the models predicted possible. Also, I anticipate the perceived necessity of a higher education in the world today will diminish as many jobs that unnecessarily require a degree for no reason related to a person's ability to do a job will by necessity drop the useless requirement.
Amen to useless requirement. There's also the fact that so many students simply don't belong in University. Even in STEM where I taught. All these extra bodies do is lower standards, and frustrate teachers like me who value quality. I returned to industry nearly a decade ago. How much worse has it gotten?
I started teaching at university 15 years ago when I would say the decline had started but things were still decent. If you have been away for ten years then you got out at the right time as it has been a much steeper decline in that time. Students come in basically knowing nothing as the high school systems have just moved through and teaching them the basics in uni that they should have learned in high school makes for and expensive high school 2.0 for them and ultimately puts them 4 years behind and 200k in debt once they graduate as compared to their peers that skipped college altogether and just went to work or start businesses.
Get a trade. There's a few reasons to get a degree; law, engineering, medicine etc. Maybe a few others, but even the areas I've mentioned used to have a non-degree pathways, as I know people my parents age that didn't go to university to become lawyers and engineers, it was through experience and then an exam with the Law and Engineering registered bodies. Since higher education is now a grift, we need to help young people with apprenticeship style work in areas that may have wanted graduates in the past. If you have the ability to do so, create an entry level job at the company you work at.
Turn PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS back to what they were...where everyone had to take a shop class and were taught a trade. Schools in my area offered wood working, engine repair (tear down/rebuild), how to put things together given different objects too see what people would come up...
Totally agree on the college scam. I went to a uni for mech. eng and the ONLY thing I learned was how to move the equations around it wasn't until I went to work for a guy who was a plant start-up guy from '30s (yes, I'm old) that solidified my knowledge. Even did down hole explosive design...NOW that was a blast!!!!! (some on here will have dirty minds)😂😁😁😁😎😎😎
I was lucky that I went to a tech school. Did so many hands-on subjects.
This is Major Tom //- to -// Mind KontroL.. you’ve really made the grade…
Link here. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/12/nolte-american-college-enrollment-plummets/
A fair portion of that number are likely men based off current statistics of whose most likely to enroll and past trends.
I have a masters in education and I have conversations all the time with my 10 year old about the purpose of college. It is not a place to find yourself. You need to know you’re going to be a doctor, a nurse, a pharmacist, a lawyer, or an engineer before dropping thousands of dollars on a degree. You will not major in “communications” or “philosophy” or “hip-hop” or whatever ridiculous degrees they have 8 years from now.
If you want to learn a trade, I’ll support you. If you want to work in law enforcement, I’ll support you. If you’re 18 and need another year just to be sure, I’ll even support that. It’s better than flushing $200,000 down the toilet on a “memeology” degree.
Where you are is there an option to do low cost short courses? I've told young people who don't know what they want to do to look at a short course guide at a local institution and give a few a go while also working. They're usually one night a week for 10 weeks and can be on a wide range of topics such as arts, technology, food, mechanics, etc. Better to drop a few hundred into a short course to see if you like the topic before going all in at university.
I know that some high school students qualify to take courses at our local community college (while still in high school) if they have high grades.
I don't think that's a good sign. Higher education is important. But if that higher education is indoctrination it's probably for the best.
It would be nice if this created incentive for the college professionals to go back to providing a real education again.
Bit who will tell them they are all racist and privileged?
It dropped because of the hostility that white males receive in these institutions. The staffers are totally composed of minorities (who hate white men) or Karens. The professors are ALL socialists and base your grade on your skin color, gender, your political leanings, or if you are a homosexual or not. Vocational schools is where one should go to develop real skills. No one gets rich because of college. It is usually the ones that work part time jobs (or full time) during HS that prosper.
This isn't as hopeful as you might think.
The truth is people are just having fewer children, and so it's natural that over time, fewer young people are going to college.
Because fewer young people exist than who did in the past.
I propose shutting down state universities along with the 3-letter agencies. The vast majority of them are actively training students to be fascists.
On second thought, just eliminate federal student aid. That would accomplish the same thing.
They can't even take a good picture by making the chain taut.
Yay!!!!
Incoming wave of broke af ex professors
https://www.cupahr.org/issue/feature/higher-ed-enrollment-cliff/
I left University at 20, and got married. By the time I retired, years later, I was teaching at A Major Eastern University (tm).
when I was in school the dollar sign had 2 vertical lines going thru it. Now only 1 ? never really noticed until I looked on my puter keys. wth ?
Me too.
I guess it's that quantum effect of changing universes. Mandela Effect.
Berenstein Bears becomes Berenstain Bears. Etc.
People's park is already destroyed with the number of homeless tents in the park.