US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at increasing rate (2019)

Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:27AM (#22043801)

When I worked at a Fortune 500 company, their position was that you can't adequately understand and serve your market if you don't hire a variety of people. If everyone at your company is the same culture, ethnicity, etc, there will be quite large gaps in their knowledge for potential market segments.

They had a saying along the lines of "We hire everyone because we sell to everyone."

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by goatinaboat on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:47AM (#22043900)

If everyone at your company is the same culture, ethnicity, etc, there will be quite large gaps in their knowledge for potential market segments.

That is true but it is also true that if everyone is 20-something graduate of the same handful of colleges then a group that looks very diverse isn’t diverse at all in any meaningful sense. This should be called “the Google paradox”.

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by refurb on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @11:54AM (#22046638)

If they sell products to high school dropouts, do they also hire high school dropouts?

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