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In reply to the discussion: How I would solve the job problem. I would introduce a totally new program [View all]CK_John
(10,005 posts)the biggest employer in the town or state. These large employers IBM, Kodak, large Agra business and others took an interest in design of curriculum and student aid.
Now they have moved labor offshore, higher ed is floundering and no longer have a purpose.
The online scam universities smell the blood in the water and will pick their bones clean in 2 or 3 yrs.
The GOP is more than happy to help to kill off public schools and fill their ed schools with true believers. These are trained to be lawyers whose purpose is to take government jobs and kill off regulations.
Higher Ed has only been widely available since WWII and the GI Bill. Only 6% of the population where lucky enough to get into college prior to 1950.
They were needed then today not so much.
SAT, Med school quotas, pell grants have been effective in rationing ed
while there was a need.
A lottery and a reduction in admissions and cost is what is now needed.