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"Peak College" has passed. The first and second tier colleges will still do fine but many of the third tier colleges are doomed. They'll have to reinvent themse
by nradov 10mo ago
"Peak College" has passed. The first and second tier colleges will still do fine but many of the third tier colleges are doomed. They'll have to reinvent themselves as trade schools or corporate training centers or something if they want to survive. The job market for tenure track professors will get even tougher.
- techblueberry 10mo agoMaybe third tier colleges can start rebranding and advertising the “Animal House Experience”
- esafak 10mo agoHasn't that experience been long over? Recent generations are much tamer.
- rangestransform 10mo agoIt’ll be impossible to replicate the college experience without some kind of shared stressor like classes and exams. It’s the same deal in military training where collective suffering is used to instill a sense of camaraderie amongst recruits from various places and backgrounds.
- wkat4242 10mo agoI never felt that, we spent a lot more time partying than stressing about exams. 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).
- kelseyfrog 10mo agoWe really need to have alternate institutions that perform the same social function. It's too bad secret societies with mystic rites don't really exist anymore.
- xnx 10mo ago> secret societies Maybe they got better at being secret
- hallole 10mo agoI think the freemasons are still around. Kinda awesome that it shares continuity with the freemasonry of some prominent figures, like Washington. Can't imagine joining now without it feeling like a massive larp, though.
- cherryteastain 10mo agoIt was always a massive larp. If you try to join they will tell you what they do is re-enacting certain "moral plays".
- kelseyfrog 10mo agoDoes that make it function any less effectively?
- watwut 10mo ago> It's too bad secret societies with mystic rites don't really exist anymore. 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.
- woleium 10mo agoI am reminded of the quote “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
- tayo42 10mo agoThis probably depends on what you mean by college experience. I think I was to fucked up the whole time to be stressed by classes. Until I got kicked out.
- laughing_man 10mo agoI like it, but can you imagine the liability issues with that business plan?
- hshdhdhj4444 10mo agoWhy do we think trade schools will fare any better?
- nradov 10mo agoThe USA is going to have to reindustrialize whether we want to or not. Someone needs to train the workers.