4 Year Liberal Arts Colleges Struggling

[MC Paul Barman]

My wife's sister works in administration at Wisconsin Lutheran College and she stated, about 3 years back, that colleges were needing to get ready for the student enrollment drop off that is about to hit.

Near where I live, in the past 3 years, 2 colleges have closed. Decisions that were made quickly: Silver Lake College and Cardinal Strict College. St. Norbert College recently cut faculty and programs. Some in the college were up in arms over this.

Add to the lower birthrate.... you have less males attending college. in 2023 they make up 42%, in 2011 they made up 47%. I don't know if this is only white males... or just males.

Any colleges near you foundering?

 

[Contempt]

What... no-one wants a super expensive degree in unemployment?

Say it ain't so... LOL

Where will Starbucks find barristers now?

 

[Sweater of AV]

Where will Starbucks find barristers now?

Sherdog bless.

 

[SmoothPies]

I think a big factor is that the kids that are now starting to go to college have parents that are young enough to have gotten hit hard by student debt, and don't want that for their kids

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

My wife's sister works in administration at Wisconsin Lutheran College and she stated, about 3 years back, that colleges were needing to get ready for the student enrollment drop off that is about to hit.

Near where I live, in the past 3 years, 2 colleges have closed. Decisions that were made quickly: Silver Lake College and Cardinal Strict College. St. Norbert College recently cut faculty and programs. Some in the college were up in arms over this.

Add to the lower birthrate.... you have less males attending college. in 2023 they make up 42%, in 2011 they made up 47%. I don't know if this is only white males... or just males.

Any colleges near you foundering?

I recently watched a video about this topic and you touched upon the major point, and that's declining birth rate.

Also there's a glut of colleges in the US. Usually the American economy is about 10 times of Canada, and that ratio applies to a lot of other things. Yet I think there are 30 times more colleges in USA than in Canada

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

Maybe coincidentally, the coffee shops they open around here all seem to blow up and stay busy all day, I'm sure they're looking for just these kinds of broccoli haired 19 year olds to work the counter

Plenty of time left to work on their poli-scy rant and study astrology. Maybe even become a DJ with all that money saved

 

[Berserker13]

woke satanic bs isn't working anymore

 

[tgv976]

I think a lot of the youth are better at recognizing what scams a lot of colleges are. Why graduate with a mortgage sized debt for a piece of paper when you can go to a trade school, learn something useful, and make double to triple the money when you get out for a fraction of the cost.

 

[Fury]

What... no-one wants a super expensive degree in unemployment?

Say it ain't so... LOL

Where will Starbucks find barristers now?

Where will the English courts find baristas?

 

[Tone C]

Where will the English courts find baristas?

Well played sir, well played....

 

[Ardaric]

Definitely thought St. Norbert's was going to be a fake college.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Online schools have contributed to the shuttering of colleges as well. One near me, Wells College, in central NY state, closed last year.

 

[FléauDeDieu]

I always wanted to go to college and have the college experience, but the fees were too much for someone from a working class background like me, even in a heavily subsided country like Ireland (3k for year)

At the same time, the value and time investment in needed to succeed at a college isn't really worth it for most for people, other than to pursue a career in academia.
Why spend 4 years doing an English Literature when you could've spent that same time reading what interests and honing your skills in creative writing and self pubbing (like I did) while also earning lots of money from learning a trade?

A degree in Classics might all but lead you to a teaching job in a secondary school/high school, and that's pretty much it. Perhaps in the future, when I don't have to worry about money or the stigma of living with parents, I might go back someday and have the college experience (and meet lots of cute college aged girls )

 

[HenryFlower]

Why spend 4 years doing an English Literature when you could've spent that same time reading what interests and honing your skills in creative writing and self pubbing (like I did) while also earning lots of money from learning a trade?

or four years doing a creative writing major

 

[I Am Legion]

In the last few years the Trades have become more popular as well. Union jobs where these guys can make bank and work side jobs is more appealing that a college degree in nothing with debt.

 

[HereticBD]

It's not all worthless, but I figure this has something to do with Liberal Arts degrees being mocked for the past 30 years or so, and seeing very highly educated baristas trying to pay off their student loans on minimum wage.

 

[Berserker13]

 

[TheChance]

My wife's sister works in administration at Wisconsin Lutheran College and she stated, about 3 years back, that colleges were needing to get ready for the student enrollment drop off that is about to hit.

Near where I live, in the past 3 years, 2 colleges have closed. Decisions that were made quickly: Silver Lake College and Cardinal Strict College. St. Norbert College recently cut faculty and programs. Some in the college were up in arms over this.

Add to the lower birthrate.... you have less males attending college. in 2023 they make up 42%, in 2011 they made up 47%. I don't know if this is only white males... or just males.

Any colleges near you foundering?

UW Waukesha is closing too.

 

[Contempt]

Where will the English courts find baristas?

LOL, I didn't even catch that... bloody autocorrect.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

An undergrad degree in the liberal arts is good preparation for law school. Other than that....