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.
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.