President of Brandeis U. Warns Quarter of U.S. Colleges Could Close in the Coming Years
“Traditional higher education as we know it — research universities, residential colleges — are where the transformation is going to occur”
This is a reckoning that has been building for decades. Higher education cannot go on forever in its current form.
FOX News reports:
Quarter of US colleges could close in the coming years; university president warns of major transformation
A university president is warning that up to a quarter of colleges and universities in the United States could close in the coming years.
Arthur Levine, president of Brandeis University in Massachusetts, said during a recent conversation at the American Enterprise Institute he expects between 20–25% of American colleges and universities to close their doors.
“Basically, what’s happening is that higher education is undergoing a transformation,” Levine said.
“Our whole society is undergoing a transformation,” he added. “We’re watching what was a national analog industrial economy become a global digital knowledge economy. And the consequence of that, in terms of higher education, is that we’re seeing demographic change, economic change, technological change, global change, now political change. And what’s going to happen is that 20-25%, as you know, of all colleges are going to close.”
Levine said he expects many community colleges and regional universities to shift heavily to online instruction, while wealthier institutions may be able to delay major changes.
“Traditional higher education as we know it — research universities, residential colleges — are where the transformation is going to occur,” Levine said. “It’s only occurred once before, during the Industrial Revolution, when tiny, little church-related colleges became universities and technical schools and land grant colleges and community colleges and research institutes and graduate schools and all the rest. And, this time, what I essentially said to our faculty was, ‘We’re going to see the same pattern of change we’ve always seen.’”
Some of the factors Levine said contributed to colleges facing problems include higher education being too expensive, its reluctance to change and changing too slowly.
“If something is very, very expensive, it ought to be worth your paying for it,” Levine said. “There ought to be outcomes that are worth the price that you pay. In 1842, the president of Brown said, ‘I can’t even give this stuff away.’
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He’s not wrong, sad to say. I taught in a small RC liberal arts college for 19 years, and it’s clear to me now that the public devalues the teaching of history, literature, philosophy, and the other arts. And we’ve done that to ourselves, by giving it over to radical leftists who can’t value a novel by Virginia Woolf or a play by Christopher Marlowe except for how it critiques capitalism, etc.
And the “downside”?
Colleges have become nothing more than dumping grounds for people who are ill-equipped for “Higher Learning”, training farms for Sports, and indoctrination centers for socialist propaganda.
Since the hostile takeover of the financial system by Hussein O’bj, they are now a continuation from Public schools of funding for the DNC, willing to take ANYONE who can get someone to fill out the Financial Aid forms for them. Thus they are further indebted to the Government UNLESS they become another Govt. leech, in which case they are “absolved” of the burden.
This does not include all the FRAUD incurred by so-called “research grants”
The day of a 4-year programs for useless degrees is OVER.
Can we pick and choose which quarter to close?
Somehow I can feel no sympathy if we lose a quarter of our colleges of higher indoctrination. They did it to themselves. They have charged outrageous prices for useless degrees that have left their customers in debt for the rest of their lives.
A slim proportion of these institutions are fit for their originally intended purpose, and what you’re seeing now is the consequences of thenon-Disney version of survival of the fittest.
And there is no Disney version.
if they have been taxpayer dependents
then its about fnnn time