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(08-21-2020 12:53 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(08-21-2020 12:37 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  Yep. There's no going back. I just wish some of the academic fluff in many institutions across this great nation would also make cuts. This is a topic for another board but universities have had no real incentive to run lean and teach courses that actually, you know, teach something tangible and useful. Many have become academician swamps of no return. Why no incentives? Students largely borrow the money to pay up.

Schools have those incentives. The consequences are just really, really long-term for schools that have billion dollar endowments or are state-sponsored.

Even state-sponsored schools like Chicago State & Wright State are in extreme danger of closing because of horrible decisions over the past 2 decades.

There's a reason that liberal arts schools like Illinois Wesleyan are dying, while engineering schools like Rose Hullman are thriving.

I have long felt that colleges should be the only lender to students and students could at the start to either repay as a traditional loan or a % of their income for some number of years. You would see the crap courses disappear quickly. End of Women's Studies, African American Studies, etc. Not saying no liberal arts but rather strong core that leads to value. About half my BBA in Accounting was not business. I took Physics, Inorganic and Organic Chem, Calculus, Boolean Algebra, English, American Literature, History, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, etc.