Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones scrape for applicants

Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by keiferski on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:36PM (#26241802)

Yet somehow the rest of the developed world manages to offer liberal arts degrees that don’t cost $50,000 a year. The trick is: don’t spend millions on football stadiums, don’t hire hundreds of administrators, and don’t offer student loans that are impossible to default on.

It really isn’t that complicated, especially for the single wealthiest country in the history of human civilization.

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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by CapmCrackaWaka on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:59PM (#26242126)

I work for a consulting company which helps these struggling colleges. It's a difficult discussion to have. When you tell them that they are spending way, way more than they need to on administration, they usually 'ahem' and 'guffaw', especially when the implication is that the people in the room with you are part of the problem.

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