Is this trend going to reduce the cost of schooling or increase it?
It was founded in 1784
It looks like it had a good ranking in game design, but yes, otherwise a clown College.
Is this the beginning of Useless LA College consolidation?
Have you seen this College?
Look at it on Google Maps. It is a urban campus of large seemingly historic homes. The maintenance on this this campus alone had to be hefty.
If they really wanted to save the college, they could raise millions by selling the campus and purchasing a more remote facilities. This is another case of Higher Education not putting the sustainability of the University ahead of personal interests.
good good good
universities are no longer the gatekeepers of knowledge.
May 1,000 more shut their doors forever.
hbbhbuhbbu wrote:
Is this trend going to reduce the cost of schooling or increase it?
It was founded in 1784
It looks like it had a good ranking in game design, but yes, otherwise a clown College.
I don't think it's going to do much of anything nationwide. The schools that are closing are generally tiny and having trouble recruiting classes, anyway. But it might be the nail in the coffin for other small LACs as kids start saying "how do I know this place won't go under?" on top of the fact that the number of kids is due to fall soon.
Small private colleges have an image problem. They used to be viewed a high society undergrad education, in which you became part of a club. They have lost that. Very few have strong alumni networks, they have relaxed their student personnel standards to the point that they are no longer different from publics.
The only difference private college have now, is less riff-raff and deviant behavior.
Such a mean spirited thread.
Anyway, looking through some of the kids' majors, it's a lot of Nursing, pre-PT, pre-Vet, Vet tech, along with a lot of Game Design and related majors.
Fairly practical, and useful in today's world.
Yes, small liberal arts colleges have, and will continue to have, problems surviving. And you will see more go under. No reason to celebrate, though; what did they ever do to you?
It's sad. Never heard of the school. Maybe it sucks and they did everything wrong, but it's still sad. 200+ years of tradition comes to an end. Sad for the alumni and everyone connected.
Maybe the family farm and the multigeneration mom and pop business couldn't do what it needed to do to compete with corporate farms and walmart, but it's still sad. same here.
johnny99 wrote:
Yes, small liberal arts colleges have, and will continue to have, problems surviving. And you will see more go under. No reason to celebrate, though; what did they ever do to you?
Nothing. The nasty responses are from the ones who never went to college and who are angry with the way their lives turned out.
DanM wrote:
https://boston.cbslocal.com/video/5439114-very-painful-decision-becker-college-in-worcester-permanently-closing/
I don't know anything about that college specifically, but overall, I think colleges and universities hurting and closing is a good thing. The management at higher education institutions is insanely awful and wasteful. With the pandemic, people are starting to wise up that they're paying tens of thousands of dollars for knowledge that can be obtained in many cases for free or nearly free on the internet, and the material you get varies little between a school that charges $10,000/year and one that charges $40,000/year. Universities have been run unchecked for decades and not really had to compete with each other or worry about budgets. Now those things are reality. It would be very good if all universities and colleges started trimming the fat, doing away with bogus programs (basically all grievance studies degrees), and started competing with each other. Now that nearly everything is online, why would I pay $2500 for a class at ABC University when I could take that same online class from XYZ University for $800?
Hopefully Evergreen State in Olympia will be next.
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5371964yellow eyed wrote:
johnny99 wrote:
Yes, small liberal arts colleges have, and will continue to have, problems surviving. And you will see more go under. No reason to celebrate, though; what did they ever do to you?
Nothing. The nasty responses are from the ones who never went to college and who are angry with the way their lives turned out.
johnny99 wrote:
No reason to celebrate, though; what did they ever do to you?
Created a trillion dollar student loan crisis and a bunch of overeducated sheep who aren't qualified to do anything except make flat whites and vote Democrat.
I will absolutely celebrate this.
Clown World Resident wrote:
johnny99 wrote:
No reason to celebrate, though; what did they ever do to you?
Created a trillion dollar student loan crisis and a bunch of overeducated sheep who aren't qualified to do anything except make flat whites and vote Democrat.
I will absolutely celebrate this.
You've got some issues my friend. Good luck in life.
Tuition and Fees in 2019-2020 academic year: $46,375
lmfao
Clown World Resident wrote:
johnny99 wrote:
No reason to celebrate, though; what did they ever do to you?
Created a trillion dollar student loan crisis and a bunch of overeducated sheep who aren't qualified to do anything except make flat whites and vote Democrat.
I will absolutely celebrate this.
I had to look up “flat white.” Lol. I guess they do teach something at those schools that I never learned while studying engineering.
Here's another one. "experimental music". Does that mean they sit around listening to recordings of Kraftwerk from 1974 ?
https://pitchfork.com/news/mills-college-hub-for-electronic-and-experimental-music-study-is-closing/
hombre3000 wrote:
Tuition and Fees in 2019-2020 academic year: $46,375
lmfao
yeah lucky your parents got it covered for you huh.
Sad for people affiliated with this school. But indicative of a healthy trend.
If these institutions don't hurt, the awful trends of the past 30-odd years in higher education will continue.
I'm a supporter of liberal arts education in its most rigorous incarnation. Strong writing, argumentation, and critical reading skills will benefit you in life. But many schools have deviated from the kind of programs that hone these skills. All while expanding their bureaucracies and hiking admissions fees.
I know nothing about this school, but the overall trend must stop.