The only way to cure American colleges from their addiction to large, shiny, utterly unnecessary buildings and large, well-staffed utterly unnecessary “services” is to cap both student aid and student loans.
Tuition skyrocketed in the past 30 years. In the same time period, the number of professors plummeted and class sizes increased. Libraries got stripped of books and academic journals. Student debt soared. The whole setup has been vitiated.
To give a single example, my university has a large and very generously staffed “career service.” The university itself is supposed to be a career service but instead of concentrating on the actual teaching, we take money away from the teaching and pour it into funding groups of fussy ladies who do weird, fussy things of zero value to students.
Any money that higher education gets will be immediately redirected into unnecessary buildings and “services.” Higher education doesn’t need money. It needs to go back to the place where teaching and research were the entire business of a college.
This is wild lol. Doctor “Cheyannae Barbee”
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God, that’s so sad. Poor woman. Why is nobody advising people not to do such things? God knows, every college has tons of well-staffed “career offices.”
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Kid, you know about communistic behavior, surely you grasp that the “fussy ladies” syndrome, make work positions, now infects most government institutions in Western civilization…and no, they are most certainly not all females ;-D
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