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Spin off college sports, cap foreign student numbers, cap acceptance of student loans, and kill off Admin staff. Everyone knows how to solve the college proble
by jimbob45 7y ago
Spin off college sports, cap foreign student numbers, cap acceptance of student loans, and kill off Admin staff.
Everyone knows how to solve the college problem. It’s just that colleges have no incentive to do so until they’re forced somehow.
- Robotbeat 7y agoWhy cap foreign students (or acceptance of student loans), though? Foreign students are not a bad thing. There’s not a limit in the number of professors. In fact, we’re graduating way more graduate students than there are slots of tenured teaching positions. The problem isn’t too many foreign or domestic students or not enough people qualified to be professors, it’s administrations ran by greedy MBA types.
- jimbob45 7y agoForeign students because too many of them perverts the motivations of universities (and we have more than enough universities to go around for all prospective foreign students. Financial aid because unchecked student loans allow universities to charge as much as they want for tuition. Student loans being the most predatory type of loan (being non-dischargeable)
- Robotbeat 7y agoSounds like the solution for #2 is to make student loans dischargable and #1 to eliminate profit-seeking from university motivations. Capping foreign students sounds like a bandaid solution that wouldn't address the core problems and would make other things much worse (decline of rural communities, quality of American education system, America's influence, standing, and soft-power, plus reducing highly skilled immigration rate).