How Higher Education in the US Was Destroyed in 5 Basic Steps

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1. These trends are bleeding into private college education too.

My friend taught as an adjunct faculty in a large private university in Pennsylvania for more than two decades. He was the professor who taught trumpet and brass performance within the music department. He loved it so much that he drove 2-1/2 hours each way between NJ and PA. First it was two days a week and then reduced to once a week, to teach 10 hours in a row with maybe a short break.

First the school took away his benefits. Then it didn't give him COL increases in his salary. Then it delivered the coup de grace: it officially took away music as a major both as performance and music education. That's when he lost his position. There still are students who want to study musical performance but the school just doesn't offer that option.