No thanks, I'd rather watch lectures on YouTube and go to the library. I don't need any diploma, I only want enrichment.
What makes you think they care? https://youtu.be/JcQPAZP7-sE?t=881
I've been following a conman fantisist for a number of years and of late he's gone full LLM powered and has been churning out graduate degrees from respectable sounding places. Years ago he merely claimed to have varrious degrees, but now with the help of chatgpt he's just pumping them out.
While I'm sure a few places care many very clearly don't.
Especially if all of the 18 year olds disappeared or were diluted by olds.
I have not really made lifetime friends there either but I'm not a team player. If I were in the military everyone would hate me (like they did when I was forced to play team sports at school).
Maybe they got better at being secret
They were, overall, strictly harmful. Yes, there is a point where it feels good to be in them. However, they are designed for abuse, for making it difficult to leave and for making it easy to pressure members to participate on harmful acts.
The stuff Epstien did and connection he had is the modern equivalent of that. A group of powerful people tied together due to shared infraction and shared need to protect each other. It worked well for them, helped their careers, made them have social connections and friends.
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cpb/college-enrol...
Also, seeing only 40% of high school graduates going to college is a wake up call to how much I don’t interact with people outside my bubble, because I don’t know anyone whose kids didn’t go to college in the last 20 years.
It's hard to make a case to attend Western Illinois University or St Mary's College versus going to community college and transferring to your state flagship (eg. Grangier Guarantee [0] and TAG [1] respectively) or an Ivy or Ivy Tier (eg. NYU's CCTOP [2])
This is what TFA talks about as well.
[0] - https://grainger.illinois.edu/admissions/undergraduate/pathw...
[1] - https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...
[2] - https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/how-...
I also have no idea how you can legitimately claim to predict the birth rate. There is a trend to be sure but it's driven by several factors so this "heartwrenching" prognostication is ridiculous.
Meanwhile consider the value of a degree over the past 30 years. Colleges got sloppy and relied on the largess of the student loan program and not any genuine forward looking management, the degrees became lower quality, and the value to a graduate plummeted. Plus the Internet exists and has wide penetration throughout the US.
This is lame misguided fear mongering apologia. On brand for Bloomberg.
Birthrates going up or down is not a crisis. The pathological desire for slave labor and cannon fodder, that is a crisis.
0: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/society-at-a-glance-202...
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni...
EDIT, also, looking at TFR, it's been bumping around but there was clearly a collapse in the 60s. I wouldn't use that to show that the population of the US is growing healthily enough to support capitalism.
I socialize with a bunch of current and former college professors, and they've all remarked on this phenomenon for nearby UVA and Virginia Tech. Interestingly, the one university in the area that is not impacted is the Christian fundamentalist Liberty University. The demographic that attends that school come from a high birth rate subculture. BYU is also not having an issue.
In fact, Liberty has had to expand. I'm not a fan of religious education, but I also think that ALL university tuitions are vastly overpriced to fund the absurdly overpaid and bloated armies of administrators. This includes my alma mater Virginia Tech.
I'm not sure which other universities have "absurdly overpaid and bloated armies of administrators".
This is a widely known and discussed phenomenon and is actually a running joke here in the comments.
Honestly, I'm shocked that you're unaware of this, to a degree where you're calling my comment out. I don't know what your news sources are, but they're not keeping you informed.
But whats the median pay for those staff members? I’m mainly arguing the “absurdly overpaid” part of the “army of absurdly overpaid admins” claim. Myself and many coworkers in this IT department have left high-pressure 60-80 hour/week jobs in tech / consulting / etc. We took a ~40% paycut (and reduction in benefits! my health insurance is very poor) in exchange for a much more relaxed environment. I was making $140,000 before this, but now I'm making $80,000 - and I'm one of the more highly-paid people in my department.
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